design incorporating Scottish thistle, French fleur-de-lis, and Tudor rose  
ACT For Selling of Meal by Weight.  
Edinburgh, the Twenty Fifth Day of September 1696.  
OUR SOVEREIGN LORD and the ESTATES of PARLIAMENT, Considering the many Abuses committed in the Measuring of Meal in several Parts of this Kingdom, and that these Abuses may be Obviate, by Selling of Meal by Weight: Do, for remeid thereof, Statute and Ordain▪ That from and after the first Day of January next to come, all sorts of Meal Bought and Sold within this Kingdom, shall be Sold and Delivered by Weight, at Light Stone Trois Weight, in place of the Boll of Lithgow Measure, and so proportionally, under the Pain of Confiscation of all Meal Sold otherways than is hereby Appointed and Imprisonment of the Seller thereof for a Week, toties quoties: Declaring hereby, that the Meal so Confiscate, shall immediately Belong to the first Informer; and Requiring all Sheriffs, Stewarts, Paillies of Regalities, Royalties, or Baronies, all Magistrates of Royal Burrows, Justices of Peace, and all other Judges whatsomever, to cause put this ACT to all due Execution against the Contraveeners within their respective Bounds; Certifying all such Judges, Magistrates, or others foresaids, who after due Information thereof, shall Neglect to Execute the same, by Delivering the said Meal to the first Informer, and Imprisoning the Seller in manner foresaid, that they shall be Liable to the said Informer, in the double of the Value of all Meal which shall be Sold within their Bounds, otherways than is Appointed by this ACT; Reserving their Relief from the particular Transgressor's, in sua far as extends to the single Value thereof allanerly. Likeas HIS MAJESTY, with Advice and Consent foresaid, hereby Revives, Ratifies and Confirms all former Acts made anent the sufficiency of Meal, and Ordains the same to be put to all due Execution.  
Extracted forth of the Records of Parliament, by me Alexander Gibson, one of the Principal Clerks of Session, as having Commission from Charles Earl of Selkirk, Clerk to His Majesty's Council, Registers and Rolls.  
AL. GIBSON.   

EDINBURGH, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Excellent Majesty, Anno DOM. 1696.