Procedure: draft act read and continued

Draft of an act for additional premiums on exportation of victual to commence 1 February and to end 30 April both next to come again read and a first reading ordered to be marked thereon.

Procedure: eighth article, report from committee read; continued

The eighth article of union, read and the first clause or paragraph thereof was also again read.

Whereupon a report brought in from the committee to whom the said eighth article is remitted was read in these terms:

The committee to whom the eighth article of union anent duties upon salt was remitted are of opinion that, after the first clause of the said article, an explanation in the terms following will be necessary: but in regard the duties of great quantities of foreign salt imported may be very heavy upon the merchant importers that, therefore, all foreign salt imported shall be cellared and locked up under the custody of the merchant importer and officers employed for levying the duties upon salt, and that the merchant may have what quantities thereof his occasion may require not under a weigh or forty bushels at a time, giving security for the duty of what quantity he receives payable in six months.

And after some reasoning thereon the further consideration of the said eighth article and report was delayed until the next sederunt of parliament.

Procedure: adjournment

Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.