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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. reported by JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONBODDO.
Date: Sir John Arnot
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12 June 1741 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
This was a question about the nomination of a bellman, betwixt a burgh of barony and the baron. The bell was allowed to be the property of the burghers, purchased at their joint expense, and was employed by them as a passing bell, to intimate deaths, and summon people to funerals. This they said was a co-partnership, a company trade, which had nothing illegal in it, and with which the baron had nothing to do.
The Lords found, That the nomination of the bellman belonged to the baron,
as a thing of a public nature, which regarded the policy and administration of the burgh.
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