ACT For Securing Suspect Persons.  
Edinburgh, the Twenty third Day of March, 1689.  
THE Meeting of the Estates taking to their Consideration, That several Persons have been seen in Arms coming from England, or going to, or coming from Ireland; And the Danger that may thereby arise to the Peace of the Nation in this juncture, Do therefore Authorise and Require, all Sheriffs, Stewards, Bailies of Bailliaxies and Regalities, and their Deputs, Magistrates of Burghs, justices of the Peace, and Officers of the Militia throughout the Kingdom, to Observe and take Care of the Highways, Ports, Ferries, and other Passes and Places of Resort, within their respective Bounds, and to Seize and Secure any suspected Persons who shall be found in Arms, and can gibe no reasonable Account of themselves and their Affairs, to the said's Magistrates or Officers; and Ordains the Collectors of Customs, and Waiters at the respective Ports and Ferries, to give timeous notice, and delate such Persons to the said's respective Magistrates and Officers for that effect; And for the Encouragement of the said's Magistrates and Officers, The Estates Declare, that where any such Persons in Arms are apprehended, and can give no reasonable account of themselves and their Affairs, the respective Magistrates and Officers of Militia, who shall happen to apprehend them, shall after they are Tried, and Convicted of any evil Design against the Public Peace, have the Horses and Arms of such Persons for their Reward. And Ordains these Presents to be Intimate at the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the several Shires of the Kingdom, that none pretend Ignorance. Extracted out of the Records of the Meeting of the Estates by me  
WILL. MORE Cls.   

Edinburgh, Printed in the Year 1689.