FOrsameikle, as the Provest, Bailies, and Counsel of this Burgh being conveened in Counsel, finding that the good Town hath been, and is greatly abused by strangers, vagabonds, unfree Persons, and masterlesse People, both Men and Women, who take up their residence and dwel­ling within this Burgh, and harbours and resets all manner of wicked and ungodly Persons, whereby the Town is defiled with all kinde of Vice, the Kirk overburthened with their maintenance, and the monethly Contributions and Collecti­ons appointed for the Towns Poor, are imployed and consu­med upon them. For remedy whereof, It is statute and ordain­ed, that no Land-lord or Heritour within this Burgh, set their Houses to such unlawfull persons, nor admit of such tennents to reside therein, nor receive any strangers whatsomever with­out a famous Testimoniall of their honest conversation to bee approven be the Magistrat, or Kirk Session where they remain. And that the late Incomers, and Strangers who are evidently known to have neither means nor lawfull Calling whereby to live, be timeously warned be their Land-lords, to remove forth of this Burgh, & return to the places of their former residence, whether they be Men or Women, under such pains and pe­nalties as the Magistrat shall think fit to injoyn for their con­tempt and dissobedience. And ordains thir presents to be pub­lished thorow this burgh be touk of Drum, and affixed in the publict mercat places, that none pretend Ignorance of the same.