[1706/10/341]¹

Procedure: vote on distribution of payments from the equivalent, vote to be printed

But before voting, it was agreed that the members' votes shall be marked, and that the list of their names as they shall vote be printed and recorded.

Then the vote was put, whether the money shall be paid by the disposers of the equivalent to the proprietors or to persons to be appointed by the council general, and it carried to the proprietors.

So in the parliament on 11 March 1707 a vote was put, whether the quota due to the Indian and African Company shall be paid by the commissioners for disposing of the equivalent to the respective proprietors and creditors of the said company, or to persons to be appointed by the council general and directors of the said company, and it carried to the proprietors, and the list of the members' names as they voted (ordered to be printed) is as follows.