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Subject_1 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Lord Drummore's Case
1745 ,Feb .26 .
Case No.No. 37.
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Lord Drummore's vote was objected to as to that part of his lands which had been purchased from Prestongrange, and a voluntary division made by them of the valuation, at which
rate it was inserted in the Cess books by orders of the Commissioners of Supply, without any evidence that the division was equal. Answered, That by comparing the rental at which Drummore bought with the rental of the remainder and the valuation of the whole lands, it would appear that the division was equal; but that we could make no enquiry. It was sufficient that the Commissioners had so valued it. The question was, Whether we should enquire into the equality of the division or not? and it carried, not renit. inter alios President, et me,—and it was admitted that the Commissioners are not in use to enquire into the equality where parties make a division among themselves.
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