ACT Appointing the Inhabitants within the City of EDINBURGH to give up Lists of all Persons Lodging within their Houses ilk Night.

FOrasmuch, as the Lord Provost, Bailiffs, Council, and Deacons of Crafts, taking to their Consideration, that there are many disorderly and vagrant Persons, dissafected to the Government, who does constantly haunt and frequent in and about this City, and who can give no good account of them­selves; For remeed whereof, the said Lord Provost, Bailiffs, and Council, Ordains all the Inhabitants within this Burgh, to give up Lists under their hands ilk night to the Main guard, of all and whatsomever Persons that Lodges within their Houses, & that they give up their Names and Designations: Certifying all such as shall neglect, and not give due obedience to this Act, that they shall be holden and repute as disloyal Persons, and dissaffected to the present Government, and shall be proceeded against as such accor­dingly, and shall be further Fined in the Sum of five pound Ster­ling for ilk Failȝie, toties quoties: And in regard there are many Inhabitants who Harbours and Lodges such vagrant Per­sons, and gives no Intimation thereof to the Magistrates, and those appointed by them, but conceals the same: Therefore the said Lord Provost, Bailiffs, and Council, Declares, that what­soever Person or Persons shall give true Information where, and in whose Family, any such Persons are harboured, that they shall have for their Encouragement and Pains, the Sum of five pound Sterling, payed to them by the Town Council for ilk dissaffected Person who shall be found in any House within this Burgh: And appoints Intimation to be made hereof by tuck of Drum, that none pretend Ignorance.

Extracted by me JO. RICHARDSON.

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His Maiesty, City and Colledge, Anno Dom. 1685.

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