ACT Of the Meeting of the Estates, for Inbringing of the Public Deuce.  
Edinburgh, the Eighteenth Day of March, 1689.  
THE Meeting of the Estates of this Kingdom, for Defraying the Charge and Expense of Securing the Protestant Religion, Their own Safety, and the Public Peace of the Kingdom in this Juncture; Do Ordain all Persons liable in Payment of the Supply, to make Payment of what was due at Martinmass last to the Collectors in the respective Shires and Burghs; And these liable in Payment of the Inland Excise in the said Shires and Burghs, and Imposition granted to the Town of Edinburgh preceding Candlemass last, to make Payment of the same to the Tacks-men in the several Shires, which Collectors and Tacks-men are hereby Required, upon Receipt thereof, to Pay in the same to James Oswald of Fingletoun; And likewise Ordains all Arrears of the Customs, Forraign-Excise, and the Crown-Rents, to be Paid to Sir Patrick Murray, present Receiver thereof, and the foresaid Payments to be made within Ten Days after the Publication hereof at the respective Mercat Crosses; And grants Warrant to Use all Execution Competent by the Law of the Kingdom against Persons liable in Payment of the said Public Deuce; and in the mean time Discharges the Payment of any Precepts; And the Meeting of the States do Nominat and Appoint George Hamilton of Binnie to be general Surveyer, and to see that there be no Embazlements of the Customs. And they Command and Require Heralds or Macers to pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, and Sheriffs in that part, to pass to the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the respective Shires, and to make Publication of these Presents, that none may pretend Ignorance hereof. Extracted out of the Records of the Meeting of Estates by me  
AL. GIBSON Cls.   

EDINBURGH, Printed in the Year 1689.