PROPOSALS FOR A POLE-BILL.  
1. THat all Persons of whatsoever Age, Sex or Quality, shall be subject and liable to the Pole of Six Shilling Scots per Pole, except poor persons who live upon Charity, and the Children under the Age o● sixteen years, and in familia; Of all these persons whose ●ole doth not exceed one pound ten Shilling Scots.  
2. That beside the said Six Shilling Scots imposed upon all the persons that are not excepted: A Cotter having a Trade, shall pay Six Shilling Scots more, making in the whole Twelve Shilling Scots for every such Cotter.  
3. That all Servants shall pay the fortieth part of their Fee, whereof Bountieth to be reckoned a part, besides their General Pole( excepting Livery Clothes) in the Number of which Servants, are understood, all who receive Wages or Bountieth for any Work or employment whatsoever, either at Land or Sea; and in case they be not alimented in familia with their Master, then if they be not above the Degree of a Cotter or hind, they are to have two third parts of Wages and Bountieth, or if above the said Degree, one Third p●r● of 〈…〉 the Allment.  
4. That all tenants pay in name of Pole to the King the two hundred part of the real Rent, payable by them to the Master of the Land, and that the Victual Rent payable by them be liquidat according to the Feers of the Shire where the Lands ly, besides the general Pole.  
5. That all Trades-men inhabiting within any Burgh, whether of Royalty, Regality or barony, whose free Stock and Means, not being Money upon Interest,( not including Work-Looms, Tools, or household Pleneshing) extends to Five hundred marks, shall be subject and liable to One pound four Shilling Scots, besides the general Pole.  
6. That all tradesman living within any of the said Burghs, whose free Stock and Means not being Money upon Interest, extends to One thousand marks, shall beside the general Pole pay forty Shilling Scots, and shall pay one mark Scots for every thousand M●rk more of free Stock not upon Interest, and shall pay nothing for any superplus odd Money within one thousand marks.  
7. That all gentlemen so ho●den and repute, and owning themselves to be such, and who will not renounce any pretence they have to be such, shall be subject and ly●ble in three Pound of Pole money, if they be not otherways Classed, and upon another Consideration be subject to a greater Pole, besides the general P●l●.  
8. That all heritors of Twenty pounds, and below Fifty Pounds of valued Rent, be subject and ly●ble to Twenty Shilling of Pole-money, besides the general Pole.  
9 That all H●r●t●rs of Fifty Pounds, and under two hundred Pounds of valued Ren●, be subje●● and liable to Four Pounds of Pole-money, b●si●e the geneneral Pole.  
10. That all heritors of Two hundred pounds, and under Five hundred pounds of valued Rent, be liable to Nine pound of Pole-money, beside the general Pole.  
11. That all heritors of Five Hundred Pound, or above the same, and under One Thousand Pounds of Valued Rent, be subject and liable to Twelve Pounds Scots of Pole-money, beside the General Pole, and that they pay half a Crown for each of their Male Children living in Familia.  
12. That all heritors of One Thousand Pound of Valued Rent, and above the same; and all Knight Baronets, and Knights, be subject and liable to Twenty Four Pounds Scots of Pole-Money, besides the General Pole: and that they pay for Each of their Male children in familia Three Pound Scots.  
13. That all Lords pay forty Pounds of P●le-Money, above the General Pole.  
14. That all Viscounts pay Fifty Pound of Pole-Money, beside the General Pole.  
15. That all Earls pay Sixty Pound of Pole Money, beside ut supra.  
16. That all Marquesses pay Eighty Pounds of Pole Money, beside the General Pole.  
17. That all Dukes pay One hundred Pounds Scots, beside the general Pole.  
18. That the Sons of Noblemen pay according to their Rank, viz. All Dukes eldest Sons as Marquesses, and their younger Sons as Earls. All Marquesses eldest Sons as Earls, and their younger Sons as Viscounts; all Earls eldest Sons as Viscoun●s, and their younger Sons shall be liable in Twenty Four Pounds of Pole. All Viscounts and Lords Sons in Twenty Four Pounds, beside their general Pole.  
19. That all Widows whose Husbands would have been liable to One Pound Ten Shilling of Pole, or above, are to be subject and liable to a third part of their Husbands ●ole, except Heiresses who ●hall be subj●●t to the same Pole their Predecessors would have been, beside their General Pole.  
20. That all Nottars and Procurators before Inferior Courts, and Messengers at Arms, are to be subject and liable to Four Pounds of Pole Money, beside their General Pole.  
2●. That all Writers not to the Signet, Agents and Clerks of Inferior Civil Courts, and Macers, shall pay Six Pounds of Pole Money, beside the General Pole.  
22. That all advocates, Clerks of sovereign Courts, Writers to the Signet, Sheriffs, and their Deputs, Commissars, and their Deputs, Doctors of Medicine, Apothecaries, chirurgeons, and others repute Doctors of Medicine, pay Twelve Pounds Scots, beside their General Pole.  
23. That all officers of the Army shall be ●yable in two dayes Pay for their Pole, beside their General Pole.   
That all persons who are to pay the said respective Poles, though they be Poled in different Capacities, are only to pay at the highest Rate, over and above the General Pole.  
By Order of Parliament.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, print to His most Excellent Majesty, Anno Dom. 1695.