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Subject_1 BURGH ROYAL.
Date: Election of Haddington
12 December 1740
Case No.No. 13.
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The Council of Haddington having made a sort of double election at Michaelmas 1739, and the minority having raised a process for declaring their own, and voiding the election made by the majority, which they have kept still in dependance, and some of them being still members of Council, (viz. eight,) though the rest were none of the Council in possession for the year 1740; yet at Michaelmas 1740, they all met at the ordinary place with the rest of the Council in possession, and these eight with their adherents chose a different set of Magistrates from those chosen by the Council in possession, that is the majority of them; yet these eight were found not to be within, the act 7th Geo. II., nor to have incurred the penalties in that act.
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