ACT OF PARLIAMENT, In Favours of Duncan Forbess of Collodine, anent the Valuation of the Lands of Ferrintosh.  
At Edinburgh the Twenty Second of July, 1690.  
OUR sovereign Lord and Lady, the King and Queen's Majesties, and three Estates of Parliament: CONSIDERING that the Lands of Ferrintesh were an Ancient Brewary of Aquavity: And were still in use to pay a Considerable Excise to the Thesaury, while of Late, that they were laid waste by the King's Enemies: And it being ju●●, to give such as have suffered all possible Encouragement, And also necessary to use all lawful Endeavours, for upholding of the Kings Revenue THEREFORE, Their Majesties, and Estates of Parliament for Encouragement to the Possessors of the saids Lands, to set up again, and prosecure their former Trade of Brewing, and pay a Duty of Excise, As formerly, DO HEREBY, Ferm for the time to come, the Yearly Excise of the saids Lands of Ferrintesh to the present Heretor Duncan Forbes of Collodine, And his Successors. heritors of the same, for the Sum of Four Hundred marks Scots: Which Sum is declated to be the Yearly proportion of that Annuity of forty Thousand Pound Sterling, payable for the Excise to His Majesties Exchequer. And the saids Possessors are understood, And decerned to begin their Brewing from the enshewing Term of Lambass next to come; and to be from thence forth liable in Termly Payment of Excise: Which payment they are hereby authorised, And impowred to make to the ordinary Collectors of Excise, of the shire of Inverness( whose Receipts and Discharges shall be sufficient to them therefore) and not to the Collectors of the Shi re of Nairne, although they be a Pendicle of that Jurisdiction. And that because the saids Lands of Ferrintesh ly Locally within the Shires of Inverness and Ross, where they are in use to Vend, and most necessary Sell, their Aquavity; Whereas they are Remote from Nairne, and a Sea interjected. As also Their Majesties and Estates of Parliament, Considering that the Lands of Ferrintesh by and attour the Devastation they are now lying under, have been of a long time Burdened with a heavy and grievous Valuation beyond any other Lands adjacent; and that upon that Consideration in the Year 1670. There was an Act of Parliament past for a Revaluation of the Shire of Nairne, to which these Lands belonged, to the effect they might be eased. And also considering that the present Heretor, Notwithstanding of the loss of his Rent has freely offered Termly Payment of the supplies now granted to His Majesty upon Condition, that he be Rectified in his Valuation, and joined in payment to the Shire of Inverness where the rest of his Estate lies. And the Estates of Parliament having taken Cognizance that the saids Lands of Ferrintesh before their being laid waste, were not to be valued in reason above the Sum of Twelve Hundred pounds Scots: Do therefore Restrict the Valuation of the saids Lands, to the said Sum, declaring the Monthly Cess payable forth of them for all time hereafter, to be comform to the said Valuation, at thirty two Shilling Scots per mensem, out of each Hundred Pound Rent, of the said Twelve Hundred Pound: Appointing likeways the same to be payed in to the Collectors of Cess appointed, or to be appointed by the said Shire of Inverness, and their Commissioners for supply: And that the Abatement allowed by this Act, may be the more easy for the Shire of Nairne who ought formedy to have Relieved the saids Lands; Their Majesties and Estates of Parliament, Do therefore deduce from the Quota of Cess, payable Monthly by the said Shire of Nairne, the Sum of Twenty Six Pound Scots which by the tenor of their presents is added to the Quota of Cess payed Monthly, by the Shire of Inverness: And of which Twenty six Pound, so added the Sum of Twenty pounds Monthly, are hereby understood and declared to be payed out of the Lands of Ferrintesh, and the other Six pound is recommended to the Commissioners of the said Shire of Inverness, and their Collectors to be proportioned on any part, or upon the total of the whole valued Rent of the said Shire, as they shall see Cause. For doing whereof this present Act is their warrant. EXTRACTED forth of the Records of Parliament by me.  
THO: BURNET Cl● Reg.