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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by WILLIAM FORBES, ADVOCATE.
Date: The Magistrates of Paisley
v.
their Vassals
13 February 1711 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In the process at the instance of the town of Paisley against their vassals, the Lords, July 20, 1710, having found the defenders liable for their proportion of the cess in time coming, did now find them liable also for their proportion of the cess for the year 1705, and since then; and that the cess must be subdivided and proportioned among the heritors, by the commissioners of supply of the shire in manner following; viz. by leading before them a probation of the real rent of the whole lands in property and superiority liable in cess, and imposing and proportioning the said cess upon the lands in property and superiority, according to the real rent thereof.
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