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Sinclair of Freswick v Dean of Guild of Wick, and Bailies of Thurso. [1729] Mor 8672 (1 January 1729)
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[1729] Mor 8672
Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT. Subject_2 DIVISION III.
The Qualification of Freeholders possessing Lands liable in Public Burden for L. 400 Scots.
Subject_3 SECT. VI.
Who may act as Commissioners of Supply. - Time of their meeting. - Consequences of their refusing to meet or divide.
Sinclair of Freswick v. Dean of Guild of Wick, and Bailies of Thurso
Date: 1 January 1729 Case No. No 84.
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In an action against the Dean of Guild of Wick and Bailies of Thurso, as liable to the penalty of L. 20, for having acted as Commissioners of Supply in the shire of Caithness, without being possessed of the legal qualifications required by the then act of supply, the Lords assoilzied; for they thought that these qualifications related only to particular persons nominatim appointed Commissioners, not to those appointed virtute officii.
N. B. The persons now entitled to act are such as stand infeft in lands within the county, of L. 100 valued rent in property or superiority, or their eldest sons and heirs apparent; and Provosts, Bailies, Deans of Guild, Treasurers, Masters of Merchant Companies, or Deacon Conveners of the trades, for the time, of any royal burgh, and Bailies of burghs of regality and barony, if mentioned in the act, either by name, or by their office. See Appendix.
