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[1750] 1 Elchies 389
Subject_1 PUBLIC POLICE.
Inhabitants of Kirkaldy
1750 ,July 21 .
Case No.No. 11.
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Murkle reported a bill of suspension for 40 or 50 inhabitants of Kirkaldy, of a sentence of the Justices, suing them for not attending to repair the highroads, in terms of the act 5th Geo. II. for that they were inhabitants of a Royal Burgh, and not comprehended in that act. The Justices would not answer, but left it to the Court. And we repelled that general reason that they were a Burgh Royal; but passed it as to sailors employed in navigating ships in trade, and refused it as to sailors employed in passage-boats, and as to merchants, weavers, tailors, and other trades people. And upon a reclaiming bill 24th July we refused.
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