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§. 4. 22.&ensp; peers are to be choen to repreent the peerage of Scotland in parliament, and forty five members to it in the houe of commons.

23.&ensp; ixteen peers of Scotland hall have all privileges of parliament: and all peers of Scotland hall be peers of Great Britain, and rank next after thoe of the ame degree at the time of the union, and hall have all privileges of peers, except itting in the houe of lords and voting on the trial of a peer.

are the principal of the twenty five articles of union, which are ratified and confirmed by tatute 5 Ann. c. 8. in which tatute there are alo two acts of parliament recited; the one of Scotland, whereby the church of Scotland, and alo the four univerities of that kingdom, are etablihed for ever, and all ucceeding overeigns are to take an oath inviolably to maintain the ame; the other of England, 5 Ann. c. 6. whereby the acts of uniformity of 13 Eliz. and 13 Car. II. (except as the ame had been altered by parliament at that time) and all other acts then in force for the preervation of the church of England, are declared perpetual; and it is tipulated, that every ubequent king and queen hall take an oath inviolably to maintain the ame within England, Ireland, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed. And it is enacted, that thee two acts “hall for ever be oberved as fundamental and eential conditions of the union.” thee articles, and act of union, it is to be oberved, 1.&ensp;That the two kingdoms are now o ineparably united, that nothing can ever diunite them again; unles perhaps an infringement of thoe points which, when they were eparate and independent nations, it was mutually tipulated hould be “fundamental and eential conditions of the union .” 2.&ensp;That what- Rh