ACT OF PARLIAMENT In Favours of John Adair and Captain Slazer.  
At Edinburgh, The Sixteen Day of July, One Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety Five Years.  
OUR SOVEREIGN LORD with Consent of the Estates convened in Parliament, Considering the great use and necessity of Exact MAPS, and Descriptions of the Coasts and Ifles of SCOTLAND, and that both Northern and Western Islands: And likways considering how much the finishing the Ancient and present State of the said Kingdom, and the most considerable Prospects thereof tend to the Advantage, Honour and Reputation of SCOTLAND. And seeing, That John Adair Geographer has finished several MAPS of those Coasts and is willing to make up what remains: As also, Captain John Slazer hath made ane considerable progress in describing the Ancient and present State of Scotland, and in making up in Copper Plates the most considerable Prospects of the King's Castles, Palaces and several burgh's, and of the considerablest Houses belonging to the Noblemen, and Gentlemen: And the said John Adair and Captain Slazer having been at great Expenses in pursuing the said's works, and that they must be yet at greated for the finishing thereof: Therefore HIS MAJESTY with Advice foresaid, does Stature and Ordain, That Sixteen shilling Scots be Exacted for every Tun of Foreign Ships which come in to any Harbour or Road within this Kingdom ilk Voyage, and four Shilling on every Tun of Scots Ships, above twelve Tun Burden once ilk year for the space of five Years to be applied by the Privy Council for completing the said MAPS and Prospects of Scotland: And Ordains the same to be Collected by the Collectors of the King's Customs, and to be paid in to the King's Cashkeeper Termly, to be disposed of as the said's Lords of Privy Council shall find necessary and useful for Reimbursing what is already expended on the saids Works, and what shall be yet requisite for bringing the same to perfection, with Power to the Lords of Council, to stop the said Imposition in whole or in part when they find a sufficient Fond collected for perfiting the said MAPS, Prospects and Descriptions of Scotland. And lastly. HIS MAJESTY with Advice foresaid, Ordains this Imposition to commense, and to be exacted from the first of August next, One Thousand Six hundred and Ninety Five Years: And Declares, that the said's Collectors shall be Liable for the said Impositions on Foreign and Scots Ships as said is, in so far as the same shall not be punctually exacted by them: And Ordains the saids Collectors to deliver in to the Lords of Privy Council Subscribed Lists of the said's Ships with their respective Butdens as the ground of their Charge, and appoints the same Execution to pass hereupon at the Cash keeper's instance against the saids Collectors, as is usual for HIS MAJESTY'S other Customs. As likeways all Execution at the said's Collectors instance against these Liable in payment of this Imposition as is usual for the King's Customs.  Extracted forth of the Records of Parliament by George Viscount of Tarbat Lord Macleod and Castle haven etc. Clark to the Parliament, and to His Majesty's Councils Registers and Rolls; 
Sic Subscribitur Tarbat Cls. Register.