The Court appointed Bailies in that part for granting infeftments within the city of Edinburgh.
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On a petition of the Town-Clerks of Edinburgh, and certain heritors of burgage tenements therein, the Lords granted warrant and commission to Gavin Hamilton, Robert Bailly, John Yates, and James Mansfield, merchants, and Bailies of Edinburgh for the year preceding Michaelmas last, or to any of them, and in case of their absence or refusal, to Thomas Allan, David Inglis, and Robert Forrester, merchants, and Bailies of the said burgh for the preceding year, or any of them, with power to them to receive resignations, and to give sasines of and upon all tenements holding burgage within the said burgh, more burgi, ay and until Magistrates should in course of law be regularly established therein; one of the common Clerks of the said burgh being always notary or clerk thereto, and that the infeftments to be expede thereon be registred in his protocol in terms of law.
Clerk, Forbes.
Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 348. Falconer, v. 1. No 127. p. 154.
