Act appointing collectors of shires to receive clipped merk-pieces from the parish-collectors of the pole-money, and ordaining diligence against parish-collectors. Edinburgh, January 28, 1696. Scotland. Privy Council. 1696 Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B05303 Wing S1402 ESTC R182978 52528899 ocm 52528899 178919 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Edinburgh , January 28. 1696. THE Lords of His Majesties Privy Council do hereby appoint the Collectors of Shires for the Pole-money , to receive from the Collectors of particular Parishes , all such clipped old Merk-pieces , and their Fractions , as the Parish-Collectors shall deliver to them , the saids Parish-Collectors first giving their Oaths in presence of one of the Commissioners of Supply within the Shires where they are Collectors , that they offer or deliver no other clipped Merk-pieces and their Fractions to the saids Collectors of Shires , but such as were truly received in by them the Parish-Collectors , in payment of the Pole-money which they give in to the said Collectors of Shires , and that before the Proclamation discharging the saids Merk-pieces and their Fractions was promulgat in the respective Shires where the Deponents lives : And the Council declares , that no Pole-money is to be exacted for any persons who died before the Term of Martinmass last , being the first Term appointed for uplifting the Pole-money : And the Council do hereby ordain all such diligence to pass at the instance of the Collectors of Shires , against the Collectors of particular Parishes , for giving in of Lists of Poleable persons in their Bounds , and payment of the Pole-money Collected by them , as is allowed to pass , and to be direct against the Poleable persons themselves . And ordains thir presents to be Printed , and appoints His Majesties Solicitor to send Printed Copies hereof to the several Collectors of Shires . Extracted by me GILB . ELIOT , Cls. Sti. Concilii . Edinburgh , Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson , Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty , 1696.