ACT Anent the Pole-Money.  
Edinburgh, March 23. 1699.  
THe Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, as being impowered by the Twelfth Act of the last Session of this current Parliament, Entitled Act anent Pole-money, to Order and Appoint such other Methods and Courses as they shall judge fit, for stating and Inbringing of the Pole-Money imposed by the said Act: Do hereby Order and Appoint the Commissioner of Supply in each Shire, to meet with all convenient Diligence at the Head-Burgh or other usual place of Meeting, within the said Shire by their Conveener; or if they have none, by the Sheriff for that effect; And there to Order one of their Number per vices, to Attend or keep Court Weekly two days at least, viz. Tuesday and Thursday each Week at the said Burgh. As also, That the Magistrates of burgh's Royal, Appoint one of their Number to Attend and keep Court Weekly per vices within their Burgh at least two days each Week, to the effect the said Commissioner or Magistrate so to be appointed, may give out Warrants for Citation, at the Instance of the Tacksmen of the said Pole, or any having their Order, against the persons liable in payment of the said Pole, Single, Double, or Quadruple, the Single and Double being always included in the said Quadruples, being the highest and outmost wherein any person can be liable by the said Act; and sustain Process and Administer Justice, and pass Decreets against the saids Persons liable, conform to the said Act of Parliament. As also, that Process be sustained in the case foresaid, upon a Citation to one Diet, whereupon the Persons cited, if personally apprehended, may be likewise holden as Confessed, and that upon the Decreets to be given by the said Commissioners or Magistrates of burgh's against the Persons liable in the foresaid Pole; The like summar Execution may be directed as upon Decreets for Supply or Excise, Quartering only excepted: And farther, that a Precept or Letters may be directed against all these that shall be discerned for the said Pole, within one Shire or Burgh, and that the several Persons and Sums therein contained shall not make several Causes, but shall only be paid for as one Cause: And the said's Lords do hereby appoint&ordain all Clerks of Shires and of burgh's Royal, to exhibit and make patent to the said Tacksmen, or any having their Order, their respective Valuation and Stent-Roll when required, in order to particular men's Stents or Valuation, whose Poles are not other ways determined; As likewise, that the Inhabitants of burgh's Royal give Lists when required, of such as Reside within their Families; and that the Magistrates give the necessary Orders for that effect: and the foresaid Clerks of Shires and burgh's, and also their Collectors, are hereby Ordained to give to the said's Tacksmen or these having their Orders, Notes or Abstracts of what Instruments may be taken in their hands by any Person liable in the said Pole, anent their Listing or paying. And lastly, the said's Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, Require and Ordain the Commissioners of the said Shires, to cause their Clerks give Extracts of their Collectors Bonds to the said Tacksmen, or any having their Order; And if need beiss, that they give also summar Processes and Execution at the Instance of the said Tacksmen and their foresaids, against the saids Collectors and their Cautioners, upon their said's Bonds as Accords. And the said's Commissioners and Magistrates of burgh's, and all others concerned, are hereby strictly Commanded and Required to Observe and Perform the Premises as they will be answerable. And these Presents are Ordained to be Printed and Published at the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of Shires, and of all burgh's Royal in the usual Form.  
Extracted by me GILB. ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, Anno DOM. 1699.