ACT Anent the Half Ducatdouns and Old Scots Mark-pieces.  
July 25. 1695.  
FORASMUCH as, by a Proclamation of the Date the twelfth Day of July Currant; the Rate of the Ducatdouns was Raised to Three Pound Fourteen shilling, and the Scots Four Mark-piece, and sundry other Species of Money, with their Halfs and Quarters Proportionally, were Declared and Ordained to be Currant at the Rates therein-mentioned, and all Persons obliged to Receive the same in all Payments whatsomever, at the said Value, as the Currant Coin of this Kingdom; And seeing sundry of His Majesty's lieges, either through Ignorance, or Mistake, do scruple and demur to receive the Half Ducatdouns at the proportional Value foresaid; and the old Scots Mark-pieces at the Value and Rate of the Quarter-pieces of the Scots four Mark-piece, whereby many of the Meaner sort of People are thereby Prejudged: And the Obedience due to His Majesty's Commands and Intention, for having the said old Marks Currant, at the Rate and Value of the Quarter-pieces of the said four Mark neglected: Therefore the Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, Declare the half Ducatdouns to be Currant at the Value of One Pound seventeen shilling Scots; & the old Scots Marks, to be Currant at the Value of the Quarter of the Scots four Mark-pieces; and Ordains the same to be Received in all payments accordingly, & that Conform to the foresaid Proclamation in all Points. And Ordains their Presents to be Printed and Published at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and other places needful.  
GILB. ELIOT. Cls. Sti. Concilii.  
GOD save the King.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Excellent Majesty, 1695.