Procedure: minutes read

Minuts of the last sederunt read.

Procedure: overtures read and printed

The overture for an act prohibiting and dischargeing the importation of all manner of merchandise and commodities from England, read.

Overture for an act anent the coinage of copper; overture for an act dischargeing the victualling of ships outward bound with Irish or forreign beef, read; as also, the overtures for the acts following: act dischargeing the importation of tobacco; act dischargeing the wearing of silk stufs, velvet and stamped calico; act dischargeing the importation of starch and pouder made of starch; act for easeing the leidges as to the prices of fleshes in Edinburgh, Canongate and Leith, all read and ordered to be printed for information to the members.