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PROCLAMATION For bringing in and paying the Arrears due by the Forces to the Country.  
WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith; To Macers of Our Privy Council, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally specially constitute, Greeting;  
Forasmuch as; by the Ninth Act of the Fourth Session of this Our currant Parliament, for Pole-money, the same is most strictly Appointed and Destined, for payment of the Arrears due to the Country and Army, preceding the first of February, Onethousand six hundred and ninety one Years, In the first place: Prohibiting and Discharging the applying thereof to any other use whatsoever, and Certifying such as shall either give orders for mis-applying thereof, or intromet with the same, the Misapplyers and Receivers thereof, shall be liable conjunctly and severally in the double thereof, at the instance of any party concerned, and their private Estates subject and liable for the double of that which shall be so mis-applyed. And further, It is by the said Act Declared, That where the Arrears due to the Country, by the Forces, shall be first duly stated for any Burgh or Shire, conform to the Orders and Rules set down thereanent, the Burgh or Shire to whom the said Arrears shall be found due, shall have Retention, and get a Discharge of their Pole-money, in satisfaction of their said Arrears; and where the Arrears due to any Shire or Burgh, exceeds the Pole-money due by the said Burgh and Shire, then and in that case the said superplus shall be ordered to be paid by the Lords of the Thesaury, out of the Pole-money due and brought in from other places, with regard always to the total of these arrears, and to the total of the said Pole-money, that the foresaid superplus may be payable, and paid proportionally, as the foresaid Act of Parliament, Impowering the Lords of Our Privy Council to Determine all Difficulties thereby undetermined, that may arise anent the Premises, more fully bears. Likeas the saids Lords of Our Privy Council having thought fit, for the better Ingathering of the foresaid Pole-money, and for the more sure answering of the ends and uses to which it is Appropriate, as said is, that the said Pole-money should be set in Tack upon a Roup, for payment of the highest Tack-duty that should be offered; We in prosecution of the said Act of Parliament, and Acts of Our Council, for Setting the foresaid Tack, Did by Our Proclamation of the Date the last of July last by past, require and Command all burgh's and Shires, to whom any Arrears were due, as said is, and who might pretend to the benefit of the foresaid Retention, to cause state and bring in their Accounts thereof to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, to the effect that they might be there Revised and Approven, and payment ordered accordingly, as the said Proclamation, bearing an express distinction of the Arrears due by the English Forces, from these due by the Scots Forces at more length proports And We being firmly resolved, That notwithstanding that few or none of the said's Shires and burgh's have obtained their the payment of the said Pole-money, to the effect they might have had the benefit of the Retention above provided: Yet nevertheless the Destination contained in the foresaid Act, for the payment of the said Arrears to the first place, shall be strictly and punctually kept, without any violation, or taking the least advantage of the foresaids Shires and burgh's, their neglect and omission; Have therefore, and to make the foresaid Destination more effectual, and the payment of the said Shire and burgh's more sure and punctual, with the Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council Ordered, Likeas, We with Advice foresaid, Do hereby Order and Appoint the foresaids Shires and burgh's; As also, all others to whom any Arrears are due by Our Forces out of the Pole-money, to send in to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, the Accounts of their said Arrears, duly stated conform to former Orders, to be Revised and Approven by the Lords of Our Privy Council, and that peremptorly betwixt and the fifteenth Day of January next to come, Certifying all such as shall failyie herein, that their Accounts shall not be hereafter received, in respect of their said neglect and Contumacy, and that their falling 'sheart, or being delayed of the payment hereby for them intended, shall only be imputable to their own fault. And it is further hereby Declared, That when ever the foresaids Accounts, hereby ordered to be brought in, shall be Revised and Approven by the Lords of Our Privy Council, to whom We earnestly Recommend to dispatch the same with all diligence possible, than the Lords of Our Thesaury are with all due conveniency to give Precepts to the said's Shires and burgh's, and others concerned, upon Our Genetal Receivers for payment to them of the respective Sums that shall be found due by the saids Lords of Our Privy Council in manner foresaid, to the effect that Our said General Receiver, to whom the Tack-duty of the said Pole-money, is by the Tack set to the Farmours thereof, appointed to be paid at the Terms of Candlemass and Whitsunday next therein specified, may make punctual payment of the said's Precepts, after the foresaids' Terms, and as he shall be ordered by the saids Lords of Our Thesaury. And lastly, it is hereby Declared, That these Presents so exactly calculat, for the furthering of the Country's payment of the said Arrears, conform to the said Act of Parliament, shall be without prejudice to the Farmours of the Pole-money, of their uplifting of the same, as also of the payment, to be made by them of their Tack-duty, therefore, conform to the Tenor of their Tack in all points. OUR WILL IS herefore, and We Charge you strictly and Commands, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and, to the Mercat Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the several shires of this Kingdom, and there, in Our Name and Authority make publication hereof, that none pretend Ignorance. And Ordains these Presents to be Printed.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the sixteenth Day of November. And of Our Reign the sixth Year, 1694. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii. 
 GOD Save King William and Queen Mary.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Andersson, Printer to Their most Excellent Majesty, 1694.