ACT OF PARLIAMENT Anent The excise of Ferrintosh.  
AT Edinburgh, the Sixteenth day of July one Thousand Six Hundred Ninety and five years.  
For as much as upon the second day of July one Thousand Six hundred and Ninety, their Majesties and the Estates of Parliament Did, by their Act, for the Reasons therein memtioned Ferm the excise of Ferrintosh, to Duncan Forbes of Cullodden, and his Successors Heretors thereof, for the yearly Tack duty of four hundred Marks; which sum, is expressly declared, by the said Act, to be the yearly proportion of annexed excise, payable out of the said's Lands, to His Majesty's Exchequer. And now although the said annxed excise, be to raised off of the Liquor, and not off of the bowl; Yet seeing, the quota or value of the said annexed excise is still the same, as it was formerly, and so can infer no ground for alteration of the Act already made in favours of the said Duncan Therefore His Majesty, with Consent of the Estates of Parliament do declare That, by the present Act anent the excise upon Liquor, there is nothing altered, or innovat, of the set formerly made to the said Dnucan, of the excise of his Lands of Ferrintosh; Excepting only that the said's Lands are liable, to their just proportion, conform to the foresaid set, of what additional excise is or shall be imposed by Law upon the Kingdom. Ordaining hereby, Any general Tacks of excise, that shall be here after granted by our Thesaury, and Exchiequer, to be with the Exception of the foresaid Act. Extracted forth of the Records of Parliament by George Viscount of Tarbat, Lord Mc. Leod and Castle-haven etc. Clerk to the Parliament, and to His Majesty's Exchequer Registers and Rolls  
Tarbat Cl: Register.