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Rh or Keeper on summary complaints at their Intance to the Lords of Council and Seion.

XV. And whereas it is of great Importance that the Record of Writs paing under the Great Seal, and which is kept by the Director of Chancery, should be in all repects complete, authentic, and authoritative; and that an Act of Sederunt touching that Record was paed by the Lords of Council and Seion on the Eleventh Day of February One thouand eight hundred and eight, to which it is expedient to give the Force and Effect of a Public Law; be it enacted, That the Keeper of the Great Seal or his Deputies, intead of delivering the ealed Charters or other Writs to the Perons by whom thee have been expede; hall forthwith deliver the ame, together with the Warrants thereof, to the Director of Chancery or his Deputy, by whom, after making the proper Entries of the Sealing in the record, the Writs hall be delivered repectively to the perons by whom they hall have been expede; and the aforeaid Warrants hall remain in the Poeion of the Director of Chancery, until the ame, together with the Regiter in which the relative Writs have been recorded, hall be tranmitted to His Majety's General Regiter Houe.

XVI. And be it enacted, That Extracts of Writs from the Regiter of the Great Seal, of which the Fact and Date of Sealing hall have been duly recorded, (uch Extracts being certified in due Form by the Keepers of the aid Records), hall make entire Faith in all Caes, excepting Caes of Improbation.

XVII. And, in order that permanent Compenation may be made to the Clerks of Royal Burghs and their Succeors in Office, and that Compenation during their repective Lives or Continuance in Office, may be made to the Clerks of Burghs of Regality and of Barony, and to the Commiaries and Clerks of Commiary Courts and other Keepers of Publick Records, for and in repect of the Profits and Emoluments of which they will be deprived by the Operation of this Act; be it enacted, That the aid everal Perons having uch Claims, and meaning to init therein, hall, within Twelve Months after the paing of this Act, preent the ame to the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, together with the Vouchers and Evidence by which the ame are meant to be upported; and the aid Claims, with the Vouchers thereof, hall be given out to His Majety's Advocate, in order that he may appear and object to the ame if neceary; and the Barons of the Exchequer, after due Enquiry made by them into the Circumtances of each Cae, are hereby authorized and required to determine and acertain the Amount of the Fees and Emoluments of which the aforeaid Claimants hall have been or may be deprived by the Operation of this Act, and what Sums will form a jut and reaonable Compenation to uch Claimants repectively, either by annual Payments to the aforeaid Clerks of Royal Burghs and their Succeors in Office, or by Payments in the Gros, or in Annuities, during their repective Lives or Continuance in Office, and no longer, to the everal other aforeaid Claimants, and hall caue uch Determination to be entered in a Roll or Book to be kept for that Purpoe; and hall report the ame under their Hands to His Majety, His Heirs and Succeors, and to both Houes of Parliament. XVIII. And