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[1740] 1 Elchies 99      

Subject_1 COMMUNITY.

Mitchelson, &c
v.
M'Kenzie, &c

1740, June 7, 17.
Case No. No. 2.

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I hardly thought this case worth marking, however as the case may, be general, I now mark it; and the Lords were all of opinion, (except Dun) that a member of a Corporation giving over his employment and not keeping shop does not deprive him of his Corporation-privileges or right of voting at meeting if he resides within the town.—N. B. Here there were properly no Corporation-dues or burdens. 2dly, They thought the offices of M'Kenzie and Lesly, that is Keeper of the Parliament House and Macer of Justiciary not incompatible with their offices as Goldsmiths;—therefore they adhered to their former interlocutor of the 4th instant, but prejudice to the chargers the Goldsmiths to insist upon their by-law for penalties incurred through not attendance, and the whole effects thereof as accords.

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