FOrasmuch as by Proclamation of the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council of the date the 9th December 1697, All the Leidges are Required and Com­manded to Pass and Receive in Payments of all Sorts the Fourty-Penny-Pieces, of the Coyn and Mint of this Kingdom, at three shilling six pennies Scots Mo­ney, how Bare soever and worne by Use the samen be, if the Print and Ve­stige of the Coyn of this Kingdom be visible upon them, and thereby, dischar­ged any of the Leidges to refuse the saids Scots Fourty-penny-pieces at the Rate of three shilling six pennies, under the pain of being lyable to pay the double of what they refuse to the Party who offered the same to be decerned immediatly without any Process, and exacted from the Refuser by any Magistrat within this Kingdom, in favours and to the behove of them from whom any of the saids Fourty-penny-pieces are refused: And the Lord Provost, Baillies and Council of this City being resolved to see the said Act of Privy Council inviolably observed within the samen, and Priviledges thereof. These are therefore, In His Maje­sties Name and Authority, and in Name and Authority of the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, Baillies and Council of this City, Commanding & Requiring all His Majesties Liedges within the samen, and Priviledges thereof, to Pass and Receive in payments of all Sorts the saids Fourty-pennie-pieces at the rate foresaid, in the Terms and under the pains contained in the foresaid proclamation. And or­dains thir presents to be published as use is, and printed, that none may pretend Ignorance.

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