ACT Concerning the Valuations and continuing the Maintenance for the Months of November and December 1649. and january 1650.  
December, 6. 1649.  
THE Committee of Estates taking to consideration that the most part of the Shires of the Kingdom, have not yet reported their new valuations against the day appointed by the Parliament, nor against the time thereafter assigned by the Proclamation of the Committee of Estates of the 6th. of November last, published to the Kingdom; Therefore, the Committee of Estates after mature deliberation thereupon, Do hereby command the several Shires of the Kingdom who have not yet brought in their valuations, To send their Commissioners to the Committee of Estates, with their Valuations Duly done, Conform to the directions of the Parliament, betwixt and the Fifteenth of January next, With declaration Likeas the Committee aforesaid doth hereby declare, That such as fail shall be liable to pay a half more maintenance than they pay presently, And that from the first of November last, which was the day appointed by the Parliament for inbringing of the Valuations, ay and while they return their Valuations orderly done as aforesaid, And that the Committee at the said day, will Proceed and determine all questions concerning the said valuations, before the returning of the said Commissioners.  
And because the Valuations from the several Shires are not yet returned against the time appointed, whereby the maintenance might have been proportioned and regulated for the entertainment and pay of the Forces presently on foot; Therefore the Committee of Estates have continued, And do hereby continue the maintenance upon the several Shires and burgh's of the Kingdom for the months of November past, December instant, and January next, in the same manner and with the conditions and provisions as it was laid on for the months of August, September, and October Last; Ordaining the samen to be paid as was prescribed for the former three Months; And the Localities of the Troops and regiments to remain as they were for the said months of August, September and October, And Ordains this presents to be published at the Market Cross of Edinburgh where through none pretend ignorance, And also to be Printed.  
THO: HENDERSON: