month of September next, in name of salary, for the current year, commencing at Michaelmas last, and the like sum annually, in name of salary, in the month of September, in time coming, to the said Lord Provost and his successors in office: And RATIFY and CONFIRM the foresaid Act of Council, of date the tenth of September, One thousand seven hundred and eighteen, in the haill other heads and articles thereof. Extracted forth of the Council Records of the City of Edinburgh, by

JOHN DUNDAS.

By Act of Council, each member of the Ordinary Council, who is sero, (that is, one quarter after the hour of meeting,) is to pay Sixpence, and if absent, One Shilling; the Preses and Clerk paying double of these fines.

ACTS

OF

PARLIAMENT,

RELATIVE TO THE

ELECTION OF MEMBERS

TO SERVE IN THE

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

T

ANNO SEXTO

ANNE REGINE.

An ACT for rendering the Union of the Two Kingdoms more entire and complete.

WHEREAS by her Majesty's great wisdom and

goodness, the Union of the two Kingdoms hath been happily effected, and the whole island is thereby subject to one Sovereignty, and represented by one Parliament: To the end, therefore, that the said Union may be rendered more complete and entire, be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of May, in the year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and eight, the Queen's Majesty, her heirs and successors, shall have but one Privy-Council in or for the kingdom of Great Britain, to be sworn to her Majesty, her heirs and successors, as Sovereigns of Great Britain; and such Privy-Council shall have the same powers and authorities as the Privy-Council of England lawfully had used, and exercised at the time of the Union, and none other.

And to the end the public peace may be in like manner preserved throughout the whole kingdom, be it