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[1761] 5 Brn 400
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. reported by ALEXANDER TAIT, CLERK OF SESSION, one of the reporters for the faculty.
Subject_2 BURGH ELECTIONS.
Innerkeithing
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Anderson had been duly elected a burgess of Innerkeithing, and freeman of the incorporations of Baxters. But having removed his residence to Dumfermline, anno 1732, and acted as freeman there, and afterwards returned to Innerkeithing, not with an honest view to reside there, but to give his vote at the election of Deacon of the Baxters; after which he returned to Dumfermline:—and being objected to, on account of non-residence, the Lords, — 1761, sustained the objection.
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