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Subject_1 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Date: Election of Berwickshire and of the Mearns
5 December 1740
Case No.No. 2.
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The Lords found that the freeholders at the Michaelmas head Courts may alter the rolls of elections, notwithstanding the act 12th Annæ, and that by deleting or expunging out of the roll, or by adding apparent heirs or husbands in the rights of their wives, but that they cannot add new purchasers who had not been enrolled arid voted at former elections; and found that the Court of Session was by the act 1681 competent by summary application to judge of their proceeding. Vide Case of Sutherlandshire, infra. Vide Election of Dumfrieshire, infra.
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