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Subject_1 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Date: Sir Michael Stewart
v.
The Town of Paisley
6 June 1746
Case No.No. 43.
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The question occurred, Whether communities can vote in elections of Knights of the shire? but was not determined, because the execution against the community was found null, only two Bailies being cited, and not the Council; and a new execution after the time limited in our act of sederunt-for returning executions of complaints on that act was not admitted. But the generality of the Court seemed to think, that communities, no more than other freeholders, could not vote by a delegate.
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