The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 18 April 2024

[1705/6/117]1

Procedure: overture read and printed

Overture of an act for an additional excise presented by [John Gordon], earl of Sutherland for satisfying the arrears due to the officers who have served since the revolution, read, and ordered to be printed.

Procedure: acts amended, voted and approved

The act appointing a fund for defraying the charges and expenses of the public ministers to be named by her majesty to attend the foreign treaties, again read and, after some amendments made upon the act, it was put to the vote, approve the act or not, and carried approve the act.

The act in favour of the town of Glasgow, again read and, after debate, it was put to the vote, grant to the town of Glasgow an imposition of 2d upon the pint of ale, brewed and vended, within the said town for the uses contained in the act and, after some amendments made upon the act, it was put to the vote, approve the act or not, and carried approve.

  1. NAS. PA2/39, f.41v-42.