Procedure: voting on clauses

Then the vote was put, approve of the first clause or the second, and it carried first.

So in the parliament on 24 December 1706 there were two clauses given in, the first in these terms: and with proportional drawbacks and allowances as in England, with this exception that Scotland, after the said seven years, shall remain exempt from the duty of 2s and 4d a bushel on home salt imposed by an act made in England, in the 9th and 10th of King William III of England, and if the parliament of Great Britain shall at or before the expiring of the said seven years substitute any other fund in place of the said 2s and 4d of excise on the bushel of home salt, Scotland shall, after the said seven years, bear a proportion of the said fund and have an equivalent in the terms of the treaty; and the second in these terms: but Scotland shall, in all time after the union, be exempt from paying of all duty or tax on salt made in Scotland in so far only as the said salt shall be made use of within Scotland, but all salt made in Scotland from and after the union that shall be exported to England or to any other nation as formerly, or that shall be employed in salting of fish or butcher-meat to be exported, or for victualling of ships to go to England or any other nation, shall be liable to the same duties as shall be then payable for salt made in England, to be levied and secured in the same manner and with like drawbacks and allowances as in England, and that, after the union, no salt whatsoever be brought from Scotland to England by land in any manner under the penalty of [...]. Whereupon, a vote was stated, approve of the first clause or second, and it carried first, and the list of members' names as they voted first or second (ordered to be printed) is as follows.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.44/201v and PA6/36, f.202 (note parallel folio system).