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King CHARLES/fell. 9} X I X. ACT difcharging Monday and Saturday Mercats in Kqyal Burghs. OUR SOVERAIGN LORD confidering, that there is much occafion given for profanation of the Lords-day in the Royal Burghs, by keeping their weekly Mercats on Monday and Saturday , and that the fame may be as conveniently kept on other dayes of the week ; Doth therefore , with advice and con- fentofHisEflates in Parliament, Inhibit and Difcharge all the Royal Burghs, from keeping any Mercats , in time coming, upon the Monday or Saturday , under the pain of one hundred Merks , to be payed by each of the Royal Burghs for every contravention refpective : And allows them to change and keep their Mercats on other dayes of the week as they have done formerly, fince the year , onethoufand, fix hundred, and fourty four , and that they make timeous intimation of the change to the next adjacent Burghs. It being al- wayes Declared , that this Act is not to be extended againft Fleihers in Royal Burghs, who may keep Mercat of Flefh.es in their refpective Burghs upon thefe dayes , this Act notwithftanding. X X. ACT anent Lint-feed, Hemp-feed and Steel. THe Eftates of Parliament, taking to confideration , the manifold miftakes and differences that do and may arife , betwixt the Farmers of Excife and Merchants , anent the exacting of Excife upon Lint-feed, Hemp-leed and Steel.which femes to be occafioned becaufe thefe Commodities are not particularly excepted, in the Aft of the Annuity , from payment of Excife : and being certainly informed , that the prefent Farmers of Excife and their Collectors, do require and exact duty of Hemp-feed , Lint-feed and Steel , contrary to the meaning ofthefaid Act of Annuity,and of the 40 Act of this prefent Parliament , made for encouragmentof Manufacturies. Therefore, Our Soveraign Lord , with advice and confent of His Eftates of Parliament, Doth Declare , all Hemp-feed, Lint-feed and Steel to be included in the generality of the provrfo of the faid Ad of Annuity; asalfo ofthefaidfourtieth Act, whereby all materials for Manufacturies are exempted from Excife. XXI. ACT anent Manfes andGlebs , and poinding for Minifters Stipends. OUR SOVERAIGN LORD, confidering the great difficulties which often-times the Minifters )f theGofpel do meet with , in the due payment of their Rents and Stipends ; So that they are fometimes forced to ufe legal execution by poinding , and in fo doing are neceffitate to carry the Goods poynded, to be ap- prifed at the Mercat-crofs of the head Burgh of the Shire, Stewartry, Bailery or Regality , many miles diftant from the place where the Goods are poinded , to the great prejudice of the party and of the Goods alfo. Therefore , His Majefty , with advice and confent of the Eftates of Parliament , Declares , that it mall be fufficient to the Minifters forefaid, in poinding , apprifing , deftrenzying the Goods of the perfons deficient in payment of their Rents and Stipends, to comprife the faids Goods, by honeft fworn men , upon the ground of the Lands and place where the Goods are , which fhall be as fufficient , as the fame were done at the faids Mercat-crofles. And becaufe , notwithstanding of divers Acts of Parliament made of before , divers Minifters are not yet fufficiently provided with Manfes and Glebs, and others do not get their Manfes free at their entry ; Therefore, Our Soveraign Lord, with advice J forefaid, Statutes and Ordains, That where competent Manfes are not already built, the Heritors of the paroch, at the fight of the Bifbop of the Diocefs, or fuch Minifters as he fhall appoint, i with two or three of the moft knowing and difcreet men of the paroch, build competent Manfes to (their Minifters, the expences thereof not exceeding one thoufand pounds, and not being beneath IfiVe hundred merks : And where competent Manfes are already built , Ordains the Heritors of the Iparoch to relieve the Minifter and his Executors of all coft, charges and expences, for repairing lof the forefaid Manfes ; Declaring hereby , that the Manfes being once built and repaired , and the building or repairing fatisfied and payed by the Heritors in maner forefaid, the faids Manfes fhall thereafter be upholden by the incumbent Minifters during their pofleffion, and by the Heretors 1 in time of vacancy , out of the readieft of the vacand Stipend. In like -maner Ordains, that every iMinifter have Fewel , Foggage , Feal and Devots , according to the Act of Parliament , made in anno, one thoufand , five hundred , and ninety three. As alfo , that every Minifter (except |fuch Minifters of Royal Buroughs, who have not right to Glebs) have Grafs for one horfe and two kine, over and above their Gleb , to be defigned out of Kirk-lands , and with relief according to the former M ? Afts