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302 Warrants thereof, to the Lord Clerk Regiter or his Deputies; and that in all Time coming thereafter the ucceive Books or Volumes of thee Records hall in all Caes he delivered to the Lord Clerk Regiter or his Deputies within Three Months after the ame have been everally completed and filled up; and if the Keepers of thee Records hall refue or neglect to make uch regular Tranmiion of the ucceive Books of their repective Records, it hall be competent for the Lord Clerk Regiter to preent a ummary Application to the Lords of Council and Seion, complaining of uch Refual and Neglect, by whom Warrants hall be granted for iuing Letters of Horning againt uch Keeper or Keepers, in order to enforce Obedience to this Act, and by whom uch further Pains and Penalties may be inflicted by fine, not exceeding Fifty Pounds on uch Defaulters, as in the Circumtances of the Cae hall eem jut, to be applied by the Lord Clerk Regiter to the Purpoes of the Etablihment of His Majety's General Regiter Houe.

XII. And, for remedying the Inconveniencies that have arien or may arie from the unneceary Multiplicity of Writings and Records now in Ue, as the ucceive Warrants of Charters and Grants of Lands and other heritable Property, which pas under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and ued in Scotland in Place of the Great Seal thereof formerly ued there; be it enacted, That from and after the Expiration of Six Months after the paing of this Act, in expeding uch Charters and Grants under the aforeaid Seal, the Latin Precept under the Signet hall be o framed as to be carried directly to Chancery without its containing any Order that a Precept under the Privy Seal hall be directed thereupon, and without uch Precept under the Privy Seal being made out or recorded, and uch Latin Precept under the Signet hall from thenceforth be received by the Director of His Majety's Chancery in Scotland, and by the Keeper of the Great Seal, as the only legal and ufficient Warrants to them repectively for framing Grants in Terms of the ame, and for appending thereto the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and ued in Scotland in place of the Great Seal thereof formerly ued there.

And be it enacted, That o long as the Writer to His Majety's Privy Seal, and the Keeper of that Seal in Poeion of their repective Offices of Writer and Keeper at the Date of the paing of this Act, hall continue to hold the ame repectively and no longer, the aforeaid Precepts under His Majety's Signet hall be produced to the aid Writer and Keeper or their repective Deputies, by the Clerks to His Majety's Signet, by whom the aid Precepts repectively have been expede, and the ame Fees heretofore due on the Writing and Sealing of Precepts under the Privy Seal, hall thereupon be paid to the aid Keeper and Writer repectively and their Deputies, of which Payments to them repectively a hort Attetation hall be written on the Back of the aforeaid Precepts under the Signet, and ubcribed by the aid Writer and Keeper or their Deputies; and if the Director of His Majety's Chancery hall, during the Period aforeaid, receive as his Warrant for framing any Charter any uch Precept under the Signet which does not bear the due Attetations as aforeaid, he hall be liable in Penalties equal in Amount to the Fees of which the aid Writer or Keeper repectively have been deprived; the aforeaid Penalty, together with the Expences of Proces, being recoverable by the aid Writer or