ACT Anent Persons Travelling to England or Ireland without Passes.  
At Edinburgh the Twenty Sixth Day of January 1694 years.  
THE Lords of Their Majesty's Privy Council understanding, that now when Levies are appointed to be made for Their Majesty's Service, in the present War, so necessary for the Defence of the true Protestant Religion, and the Preservation of Their Majesty's Kingdoms, these most proper for the said Levies, may possibly: (to decline the same,) retire out of the Kingdom to England or Ireland; Do therefore Require, and strictly Command all Collectors of Their Majesty's Customs, Surveyors, Clerks, Waiters at the several Ports, and all others Their Majesty's Officers, Civil or Military who may be concerned, that they suffer no Vessel great or small to Sail for Ireland, at any time after Publication hereof, at the said Ports on the West Seas, until the first day of May next to come, without a sufficient Pass from one of Their Majesty's Privy Council, or the Sheriff or Sheriff-Deput, or two of the Commissioners of Supply, or Justice of Peace of the Shire, within which the said's Ports do lie; which persons impowered to give the said's Passes, are hereby also impowered, and Required to take Caution of the Master and Skippers of the said's Ships, that they shall carry no person out of this Kingdom for Ireland, during the space foresaid, without lawful Passes, under the pain of one hundred Marks toties quoties, for each person so carried out by him: As also, the hail forenamed Persons, with all Collectors, Surveyors, Clerks, and Waiters upon the Borders betwixt Scotland and England, are hereby Commanded, that they suffer no person to go for England or Ireland, without Passes from one of Their Majesty's Privy Council, or from the Sheriff, or Sheriff-Deput, or two of the Commissioners of Supply, or Justices of the Peace of the Shire where the said's persons did last Reside, and that as the hail foresaids persons will be answerable at their peril. And further, the said's Lords of Their Majesty's Privy Council, do hereby prohibit all such persons who are fit, and in use to be put forth in Foot-levies, to remove out of the Shire where they dwell, after the date hereof, until the present Levy ordered by Proclamation be completed, without Passes from the Heretor of the Ground where they live, or his Chamberlain in his absence; Certifying those that presume to do in the contrair, that they shall be summarily seized where they may be apprehended. And it is hereby declared, that the Seazers and Apprehenders of the said Fleers, shall have Right and Liberty to give them up to serve for such as they may be obliged to put forth in the said Levy. And Ordains these presents to be Printed, and to be published at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh, and at the Seaports of the West-Seas, and hail other Head-burghs of this Kingdom.  
Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT. Cls. Sti. Concilii.  
GOD save King William and Queen Mary.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to Their Most Excellent Majesties, Anno DOM. 1694.