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Subject_1 Member Of Parliment
Date: Colonel Abercromby
v.
Leslie of Melross
16 February 1753
Case No.No. 56.
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On a complaint Colonel Abercromby against Leslie of Melross, who was by the freeholders enrolled in the election-roll at Michaelmas last; the Lords found, that by the acts of Convention 1667 and 1668, the act of Parliament 1690, and subsequent Cess-acts, lands jointly valued, the valuation could not be divided by a private meeting of the Commissioners, but by a general meeting either appointed by a former meeting, or called by the Convener; and sustained the objection to Leslie's qualification, that the division was made by a private meeting of four Commissioners not so appointed or called. (See Dict. No. 72. p. 8659 and No. 6. p. 2437.)
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