ACT Appointing Collectors of Shires to receive Clipped Mark-pieces from the Parish-Collectors of the Pole-money, and ordaining diligence against Parish-Collectors.  
Edinburgh, January 28. 1696.  
THE Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council do hereby appoint the Collectors of Shires for the Pole-money, to receive from the Collectors of particular Parishes, all such clipped old Mark-pieces, and their Fractions, as the Parish-Collectors shall deliver to them, the said's Parish-Collectors first giving their Oaths in presence of one of the Commissioners of Supply within the Shires where they are Collectors, that they offer or deliver no other clipped Mark-pieces and their Fractions to the said's Collectors of Shires, but such as were truly received in by them the Parish-Collectors, in payment of the Pole-money which they give in to the said Collectors of Shires, and that before the Proclamation discharging the said's Mark-pieces and their Fractions was promulgat in the respective Shires where the Deponents lives: And the Council declares, that no Pole-money is to be exacted for any persons who died before the Term of Martinmass last, being the first Term appointed for uplifting the Pole-money: And the Council do hereby ordain all such diligence to pass at the instance of the Collectors of Shires, against the Collectors of particular Parishes, for giving in of Lists of Poleable persons in their Bounds, and payment of the Pole-money Collected by them, as is allowed to pass, and to be direct against the Poleable persons themselves. And ordains their presents to be Printed, and appoints His Majesty's Solicitor to send Printed Copies hereof to the several Collectors of Shires.  
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, 1696.