PROCLAMATION For the more easy and effectual Inbringing of the Pole-money.  
WILLIAM By the Grace of GOD, King of Great-Britan, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith; To _____ Macers of Our Privy Council, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially constitute, Greeting: Forasmuchas the two Poles imposed by two Acts of the last Session of this present current Parliament, are now set in Farm, and that it is of special concern, for making the said's Poles effectual, that the Commissioners of Shires and others required by the saids Acts, for making up the Lists, Rolls and Books of Persons, and returning of the same; Do diligently Meet and Attend, and Perform what is incumbent to them for Clearing, and for the more easy raising and levieing of the said's Poles by Our said's Farmers; We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, and conform to the reference made to them by the saids Acts of Parliament, have Ordained, and hereby Ordains for the first of the said's Poles, the hail Commissioners of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, residing within the same respective, to meet upon the second Tuesday of October next to come, at the ordinary place of their Meeting and there to subdivide the hail Bounds of the said's Shires and Stewartries, amongst the Commissioners residing for the present within the same, whether present at or absent from the said Meeting, for making up the Lists of the poleable Persons, by virtue of the foresaid Act, and that at such Places as they shall appoint upon the first Tuesday of November thereafter; and there to proceed in completing the saids Lists and Rolls of poleable Persons, and takeing in their several Degrees and Qualities in manner specified, in the said Act: And appoints Advertisement to be given to the said's Commissioners residing within the said Shires and Stewarties timeously by the several Shireffs and Stewarts or their Deputs, for their Meeting upon the said second Tuesday of October next, to the effect foresaid; And likewise, that Advertisement be timeously given to the Commissioners absent and appointed to particular districts, and that Intimation be made at the several Paroch Churches within the Shires a competent time of before of the particular places to which the poleable persons are to repair for giving in of their Degrees, Characters and Qualifications, according to which they are liable in Polemony, under the pains contained in the Act of Parliament. And further, We with Advice foresaid Require and Command the Magistrates of burgh's, to meet upon the Days appointed by the foresaid Act of Parliament; and to proceed in making up the Lists and Rolls of the persons poleable within their burgh's, and to make Intimation in manner abovementioned; As also, We with Advice foresaid, Command and Appoint the said's Commissioners of Supply, Magistrates of burgh's and their respective Clerks, to complete the foresaids' Rolls, and Lists of the poleable persons within their respective Bounds, and to transmit the samen or an abstract thereof to the Lords of our Thesaury, betwixt and the first day of December next, to the effect the said's Lists and Rolls may be delivered by them to Our said's Farmers, betwixt or upon the third Tuesday of December next to come: And We with Advice foresaid, do hereby certify the said's Commissioners and Magistrates respective foresaid, if they shall either fail to meet or attend the said's Days for making up the saids Lists and Rolls; or in transmitting the same or Abstracts thereof in the Terms of the Act of parliament, betwixt and the Day foresaid, they shall be convened and processed before the Lords of Our privy Council at the instance of Our Advocate, & of the said's Tacksmen for their Negligence in the premises & for Damnages, & to be punished for the same with all Severity; And We ordain the Chamberlains, Factors, Doers & the Tutors and Curators of such of the said's poleable persons as are Absent, or Minors, to give np the respective Qualities and Degrees of the said's persons absent, or Minors, and make payment of their polemoney at the Days and under the Certifications and pains contained in the foresaid Act of parliament: And lastly, We with Advice foresaid Declare, that all persons liable in polemoney by this present Act, shall be obliged to give up upon Oath their Names, Qualities and Degrees, & values of their Estates, if required thereto at least that it shall be leisome & competent to our said's Tacksmen to control the Qualities, degrees & Values of Estates that shall be given in by the Oath of the Ingiver thereof, if they think fit, for making the Ingivers thereof liable for the single Pole, Doubles or Quadruples, according to the foresaid Act of Parliament. OUR Will is herefore, and We charge you strictly, and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, & to the remanent Mercat-Crosses of the hail Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation of the Premises, that none pretend ignorance; And We Ordain our Solicitor to dispatch Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the several Shires and Stewarts of Stewartries, and their Deputs, and Magistrates of burgh's, or their Clerks, to be by them published at the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs, upon Receipt thereof, and immediately sent to the several Ministers, to the effect the same may be intimat and read at the several Paroch-Churches upon the Lord's Day, at least preceding the said second Tuesday of October next to come: And Ordains Our Solicitor to transmit printed Copies of the said Act of Parliament, with this present Proclamation, to the Sheriffs of the several Shires, Stewarts of Stewartries, and Magistrates of burgh's, to be delivered to them, and made use of by them as they shall find needful: And Ordains these presents to be Printed.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the twentieth day of September, and of Our Reign the Tenth Year, 1698. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT. Cls. Sti. Concilii.  
God Save the King.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, Anno Dom. 1698.