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298 be lawful for the Clerks of Royal Burghs, or of Burghs of Regality or Barony within Scotland, to receive any Deeds or other Writings for the Purpoe of being recorded by them in the Books or Regiters of their repective Courts, either in virtue of an Act of the Parliament of Scotland paed on the Thirtieth Day of Augut in the Year One thouand ix hundred and ninety-eight, intituled, Act concerning Regitration of Probative Writs, or in virtue of any Claue contained in uch Deeds and Writings, conenting that the ame hould be recorded either for Preervation thereof, or for Execution: Provided always, that this Act hall not extend to or affect the Right of the Clerks of Royal Burghs to receive Intruments of Protet on Bills of Exchange, Inland Bills and Promiory Notes, and to record the ame: Provided alo, that this Act hall not extend to or affect the Right of the Clerks of Royal Burghs to record in their Books Intruments of Seiin and other Writs relative to heritable Property holding Tenements within in Burgage and ituated within their repective Burghs or Liberties thereof in virtue of an Act of the Parliament of Scotland, paed on the Sixth Day of September in the Year One thouand ix hundred and eighty-one, intituled, Act concerning the Regitration of Seiins and Reverions of Tenements and Deeds within Burgh: Provided alo, that this Act hall not extend to or affect the Right of the Clerks of Royal Burghs to receive and record Dipoitions, Tacks, and other Deeds, relating excluively to the Property or Poeion of Subjects holding in Burgage and ituated within uch Burghs or Liberties thereof repectively,  or any Deeds or Intruments where all the Parties to the ame hall be Burgees or have a legal Domicil within uch Burghs, at the Time that uch Deeds or Intruments hall be preented for Regitration.

II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Expiration of Six Months after the paing of this Act, it hall not be lawful for the Clerks of the everal Commiary Courts within Scotland, to receive any Deed or other Writing for the Purpoe of being recorded by them in the Books or Regiters of their repective courts, either in virtue of the above mentioned Act of the Parliament of Scotland, paed on the Thirtieth Day of Augut in the Year One thouand ix hundred and ninety-eight, or in virtue of any Claue contained in uch Deeds or Writings conenting that the ame hould be recorded either for Preervation thereof or for Execution, or in virtue of an Act of the Parliament of Scotland, paed on the Sixteenth Day of September in the Year One thouand ix hundred and eighty-one, intituled, Act concerning Bills of Exchange, or of any Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain authorizing the Regitration of Bills and Promiory Notes for the Purpoe of ummary Execution.

III. And be it further enacted, That, if after the Date aforeaid, any of the Clerks of Royal Burghs, or Burghs of Regality or Barony, or any of the Clerks of the Commiary Courts within Scotland, hall receive any of the above-mentioned Deeds or Writings, for the Purpoes of recording the ame in their repective Books or Regiters, or hall trancribe the ame into their Books, or hall give forth Copies thereof, bearing to be Extracts from their repective Books or Regiters, excepting as above excepted, the aforeaid Books, Copies, and Extracts, hall not make Faith or be of any Avail or Authority whatever; and the aforeaid Clerks or others o offending hall be liable in a Penalty of Five Pounds for each Offence, which may be ued for and hall be recoverable to his own Ue, together