ACT OF THE Commissioners of Supply Of the SHERIFFDOM of EDINBURGH, Anent the Settlement of the Prices of Victual within the said Shire, to the First Day of September next.  
Edinburgh, April 28. 1699.  
THe COMMISSIONERS of Supply of the Sheriffdom of Edinburgh, appointed by Act of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, of the date the last Day of March last by past, for Stating and Settling the Prices of Victual within the said Shire, Having several times convened at Edinburgh and Dalkeith; and last of all being met and convened this day; And having taken true and exact Trial of the Prices of Victual, for five Weeks space preceding the Date of the said Act, and duly considered the said's Prices: The said's COMMISSIONERS, by virtue of the Power given and committed to them by the foresaid Act of Council, have Stated and Settled, and hereby STATES and SETTLES the highest Prices of the best Victual and Meal to be as follows, To wit 

The best Wheat Seventeen Pounds Scots per Boll.  
The best Oats Twelve Pounds per Boll.  
The best Barley Bear Thirteen Pounds Six Shilling Eight Pennies per Boll.  
The best Pease Thirteen Pounds per Boll.  
The best Oat Meal, by Weight, being Eight Stone, at Sixteen Shilling Six Pennies, per Half Stone, for the Peck.  
The best Bear Meal, at Eight Pounds per Boll, being Ten Shilling per Perk.  
The best Pease Meal, Nine Pounds Twelve Shilling Scots Money per Boll, being Twelve Shilling per Perk.    
And the foresaid Prices so Settled, are appointed by the said Act of Privy Council, to be the Feet and Settled Prices until the First Day of September next: And none are to presume to Sell at higher Rates, either in Mercats, Girnels, or otherwise, within the said Sheriffdom, under the Certification of being Pursued as Usurers and Occurers, as the Act bears.  
And to the end the above written Prices may be published, the said's COMMISSIONERS Ordained, and ORDAINS their Presents to be Printed, and their Clerk to send through Copies to all the Paroch Kirks of the Shire, to be Read the next LORDS Day after Divine Service; As also, Doubles to be sent to the Bailies of burgh's within the Shire, to be by them Proclaimed at their Mercat Crosses: And this present Settlement of the Prices of the said Victual and Meal to be Binding, and take Effect after the Publication and Intimation hereof. And ORDAINS their Presents to be Recorded in the Sederunt Books of the said's COMMISSIOMERS.  
Sic Subscribitur John Clerk, I. P. C.  
Extracted forth of the Sederunt Books of the said's COMMISSIONERS,  
by RO. THOMSON their Clerk.   

EDINBURGH, Printed by James Watson in Craig's Closs on the North Side of the Cross, 1699.