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[12th 1809.]

HEREAS Irregularities and Inconveniencies have arien or may arie from the unneceary Multiplicity of Regiters in Scotland in which Deeds and other Writings may be competently recorded, either for Execution or for Preervation: And whereas the Laws heretofore devied for regulating the Formation and Cutody of the Public Records, and more epecially of thoe in the Local Regitries throughout Scotland, have not been found effectual; and it is of high Importance that the Whole of the Public Records within that Part of the United Kingdom hould be placed under one general and effectual Plan of Management and Controul: And whereas by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland, paed on the Thirteenth Day of June in the Year One thouand ix hundred and eighty-five, intituled, Act concerning the Regitration of Writs in the Books of Seion, it is inter alia tatuted and ordained, "That no Clerk of inferior Court for the future preume to regitrate any Writs in his Books, either for Conervation or where Execution is to pas againt any Party that dwells without the Juridiction, under the Pain of Deprivation and of Five hundred Merks of Penalty, the one Half to his Majety, and the other Half to the Party puruer," which Proviions of the aforeaid Act it has become neceary to renew, modify, and enlarge; May it therefore pleae Your Majety that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's mot Excellent Majety, by and with the Advice and Conent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this preent Parliament aembled, and by the Authority of the ame, That from and after the Expiration of Six Months after the paing of this Act, but with and under the Exceptions and Reervations herein, after mentioned, it hall not be