Forasmuchas, the Pole money for two years granted to Us by the 12, and 25th. Acts of the last Session of Our current Parliament, is set in Tack, and fermed with the be­nefite of the Acts of Parliament imposing the same; And considering that the time of payment of the said first years Pole-money, does now approach and draw near, and that sundry of Our Leidges by Negligence or otherways, may be obnoxious and in hazard of incurring the Penalty contained in the foresaid Act of Parliament, if they shall not make due and punctual payment of their respective Pole-money, in manner, and within the time therein prefixt, to such Collectors, and at such places as shall be appointed for that effect. For preventing of which In­conveniency, and that none may pretend Ignorance; We with Advice of the Lords of Our privy Council, hereby Require and Com­mand the Sheriffs of the several Shires within this Kingdom, and their Deputes, to cause Intimation be made at the several paroch Kirk-Doors within this Kingdom, after the Forenoons Sermon, upon the last Lords Day of this current Month of December, to all Our Leidges lyable in payment of Pole-money, that without faill they make payment of the Sums of Money wherein they are lyable as Pole-money to the Collect­ors of our Cess and Supplie, within the several Shires respective, at the Head-burgh of the said Shire, upon the first day of January next to come, or within thirty days thereafter, certifying such as shall not make punctual payment at the said first day of January, or within the said thirty days thereafter, they shall be lyable in the double, if paying within other thirty days thereafter; Or if failȝeing after both the saids thirty days, in the Quadruple of their Pole. And We with Advice foresaid, Require and Command the Commissioners of Supplie and As­sessment within the several Shires of this Kingdom, to meet and conveen betwixt and the first day of January next to come, at their or­dinary place of Meeting, and there to Call and Conveen before them the Collectors of the Cess and Supplie within their respective Shires, and require them within eight days after the said Meeting, to find the same Soverty and Caution, or such other alse sufficient Caution for whom they shall be answerable, for their faithfull collecting of the foresaid Pole-money conform to the Books and Lists to be given to them by our saids Farmers, of the poleable Persons within the said respective Shires; and that they shall make good faithfull and timeous pay­ment of the said Pole-money, and of what shall be uplifted and collected by them of the same any manner of way, to William Cochran of Fergusly Farmer of the said Pole-Money, or any having his Order, and that at the end of each thirty Days of grace given by the Act of Parliament, and with a list of the particular payments made in each of the said thirty Days, subscribed by the saids Collectors, and to be by them given in to the said William Cochran of Ferguslie and his foresaids; Certifying the saids Collectors of Cess and Supplie, who shall fail to find Caution for the effect foresaid within the time above-prefixt, they shall ipso facto cease to be Collectors of our Cess and Supplie, and shall beutterly incapable to be continued any longer in the said Office; But the saids Commissioners of Cess and Supply, are hereby Authorized, & required immediatly after the elapsing of the foresaids Days, to meet and make choise of, nominate and appoint some other sufficient and responsal person to be Collector of the Cess and Supplie within their Shire, and of the Pole-money imposed by the foresaid Act of Parlia­ment, who shall find good and sufficient Caution in manner foresaid not only for collecting our Cess and Supplie, but for the effectual collecting and paying in the foresaid Pole-money to the said William Cochran Fermer thereof, in manner above-mentioned: And We with Advice foresaid, Require and Command the saids Collectors, finding Caution in manner foresaid, to give their Attendance at the Head-burghs of the several Shires, from and after the first day of January next to come, for Collecting, Receiving and uplifting the said Pole-money, in the same way and manner that they give their Attendance for receiving the Cess and Supplie, and that during the two Months of January and February next to come, and to grant Discharges gratis, but always of true Dates to the several persons concerned, upon pay­ment of the Pole-money, expressing the Sums payed by them and the saids several Collectors of Supplie within the several Shires, are hereby allowed to retain in their own Hands One per Cent of the whole Pole-money collected and uplifted by them within their respective Shires, for their Pains and Travel in the Premisses: And We with Advice foresaid, Require and Command all persons lyable in Pole-money, to make due and punctual payment thereof at the Head-Burghs of th [...] several Shires, to such persons who shall be Collectors of Supplie within the s [...]men, after the first of January next to come, under the Pains contained in the said Act of Parliament, and herein exprest, and the Discharges to be granted by the saids Collectors in manner above-mentioned, shall be als sufficient to the Receivers thereof, as if the samen had been granted by the said William Cochran of Ferguslie Our Fermer himself. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We charge you strictly and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and remanent Mercat-crosses of the haill Head-burghs o [...] the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in our Name and Authority make Publication here of, and We ordain our Solicitor to transmit a sufficient Number of printed Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the several Shires, Stewarts of Stewartries, to be by them sent to the Ministers of the several Paroches within their Bounds to be published after Divine Service in the Forenoon upon the said last Lords day of December current. And ordains these presents to be printed and published, that none may pretend Ignorance.