# scottish legislation db dec 14

Description:
previous legislation inadequate; permission requested to extend and enforce


Supporters:
Turnpike Trustees, Oswald, Haldane, Lord Provost Drummond

Description:
Bill for repairing the high roads in the county of Edinburgh and from Cramond Bridge to Queensferry


Comment:
This bill failed. Got no further than first reading. Alexander presented the bill. To go to 2R, but never got there. BUT HLJ records a successful bill on Leith Harbour 5/3/1754. This one was required to extend powers of original bill.

Supporters:
Lord Provost, Town Council, Magistrates, Todd, Gavin Hamilton

Description:
Bill to extend the harbour, empower trustees to purchase land, erect docks, lay duty of tonnage on ships, supply fresh water.


Comment:
Govt wanted appointment during pleasure, Elliotwanted it for life. Compromise: for life after 15 years. Division over whether Bill should be brought in was 189:90. Mr Mitchell a teller for the yeas, Chas Townshend, Elliot for the noes. Went to c/w/h

Description:
Bill to repeal part of the Heritable Jurisdictions Act re term of appointment of sheriff-deputes (to make the union more complete)


Comment:
Concern at implications for successions and lands,of such marriages in Scotland. Petition first introduced to HL on  17/3/54, by Lord chancellor. Neither attempt was successful


Comment:
No JH ref. Col.Campbell was probably Lord Lorne,  MP for Glasgow burghs.  Stuart McKenzie was MP for Ayr burghs.

Description:
Danger from lack of lighthouse on Cumbrae: shoals + lack of navigational aids in Firth of Clyde and river. Permission requested to levy a toll on shipping.
Bill for establishing and maintaining a lighthouse on Little Cumray and… Rendering navigation of  Frith and river of Clyde  more safe and commodious


Comment:
See also a failed petition of April 1760 on same subject JH 99.014.

Supporters:
Lord Provost, Town council and Magistrates, Haldane

Description:
Arrangements for supply of fresh water involves the purchase of land.Needs permission of Parliament


Comment:
JH 95.023 Original petition left 'to lie on the table'. 3 months later Oswald brought in a bill. Mr Charlton chaired CWH on the bill.

Description:
Petition described difficulties of open-boat herring fishery,need to explain and amend laws; fraud re obtaining bounties in west of Scotland and Shetland; how present regulations discourage fisheries and the making of good salt. (See Harris art. on Free British Fishery)


Comment:
No JH ref.  3 March 1756, leave given to bring in a bill. Crown authority to proceed. Supporters were on the original committee. Promoters (listed) to prepare bill.

Supporters:
Erskine, Hamilton, McKenzie, Mr Campbell

Description:
Ancestor dispossessed of lands (in Sutherland),long  history of debts, lawsuits, Jacobites, attainder, Crown involvement. Requests leave to bring in a bill granting redress to a loyal govt supporter


Comment:
Doddington chaired Committee of the Whole House on  4/2/1756.Dupplin introduced the bill but, along with Lord John Murray, stayed away from the final division. Opposition to removal of duty on foreign yarn (which Argyll and CRB wanted, to help Scottish weavers) came from Scottish spinners,  English importers of finished linen and Scottish centres of fancy linen (eg Paisley)

Promoters:
Duke of Argyll, Lord Strange, Doddington

Supporters:
Hume Campbell, Oswald, Elliot, CRB, Br Linen Co manager (Tod) Glasgow LP (Cochrane), Alexander, LA, most Scots MPs

Opposition:
Eng  importers of finished linen,Deskford + Sc spinners. Dunfermline, Paisley, Glasgow

Description:
Argyll supported renewal of the bounty on export of coarse linen (for 15 years) + taking off the duty on imported yarn (to which Newcastle agreed, but he would not consider removing the duty on the export of foreign linen to America as Glasgow wanted.


Comment:
This measure failed but was successful 06/05/1757. See   JH 96.099

Description:
To enable sale and purchase of lands in Ayr and Renfrew.


Comment:
V. detailed description of roads (seeHCJ  17 Mar 1757) This is referred to  as a bill to enlarge powers of previous bills re Glasgow roads

Supporters:
JPs, Turnpike Trustees, McKenzie, Elliot, Oswald

Opposition:
See GCA, T.CN/3/6 re Paisley Freeholders, 1757

Description:
Need more money to repair 'ruinous' roads and build a bridge at Inchinnan (ferry dangerous); will promote trade; Can't be done without aid of Parliament


Comment:
This measure failed but was successful on 22/05/1760. See JH  99.053


Comment:
Original petition ordered to lie on the table. Revived 28/2/57. Ch.Exch. gave King's authority to proceed. Oswald and LA to bring in the bill. Mure presented the bill and reported from Committee on it.

Supporters:
Rector, Principal, Professors etc, Duke of Hamilton, Elliot

Description:
Request leave to bring in a bill to regulate and improve [the terms of] previously specified royal and noble benefactions. Need authority of Parliament + waiver from the King


Comment:
Original petition (28/1/56) marked by Hoppit as 'Failed' (95.017) This is a second attempt

Description:
A bill to enable her to sell lands in Renfrewshire and buy contiguous lands in Ayr.


Comment:
No JH Ref.  House of Lords petition in 1756. Went to CWH, chaired by Oswald.


Short name:
Act for improving administration of Forfeited Estates

Comment:
Treated by JH as a law and order measure.
To improve on original Act of 1752

Description:
Intended also to raise rents, deal with financial issues related to annexations, civilise and improve the Highlands and prevent disorder


Comment:
Refers to  previous act of [1752]. Money borrowed and tolls levied inadequate. Almond water impassible even by boat. Request increased borrowing powers + higher tolls. Mr Staunton to take to HL where Findlater reported

Promoters:
Mr Duncan (Dugald?) Campbell, Mr James Campbell, Oswald, Scott, Elliot, Veitch, Leslie

Description:
To repair the Edinburgh post road through counties of Linlithgow and Stirling 
(Falkirk to Stirling  Bridge)


Comment:
Pet went to committee of Oswald + English MPs. Oswald took bill to HL

Supporters:
Provost, Bailies and Town Council and others

Description:
To continue and  make more effectual an act of 1742. Harbour repair etc


Comment:
Gordon and Oswald to prepare bill. No record found earlier than 6/3/1758 when Gordon reported from committee

Description:
Harbour repairs done and Workhouse built; good work done already; more money needed; want to extend Act of 1753


Comment:
The bill caused considerable debate at several stages. Passed HC by 92:47. Eventually the House of Lords effectively killed it off (5/5/58) 7 Scots peers present - Argyll, Tweeddale,  Lothian, Findlater, Breadalbane, Marchmont and Hyndford

Supporters:
petitions from Chester, Newcastle, Gloucester, Bristol

Opposition:
Pembroke Landowners, Scots, MPs Henry Erskine, Mr Elliot, LA Scotland


Comment:
Petition remitted to a large (English) committee headed by Charles Townshend, m .to Dowager Duchess of Dalkeith

Description:
to complete bridge over Tweed begun 1752 + better water supply, roads, workhouse, town having 'no revenue whatsoever'.


Comment:
Petitioners linked need for a new bridge to deepening of the river because old bridge too weak and narrow, and the fords would disappear when the river was deepened. Elliot took over the bill, presenting it,  chairing committee and reporting on it; took bill to HL who considered the other petitions, but stuck with the original, which they amended.

Supporters:
Magistrates and Town Council + Townshend, Veitch, Ludovick Grant, Mr Campbell

Opposition:
Mags, TC of Greenock, Dumbarton (Petitions)

Description:
bill for improving Clyde navigation and building a bridge across the river from Gorbals


Comment:
Petition referred to committee under Mure. Townshend and Campbell to prepare Bill. Veitch reported from committee. Bill to be engrossed, then disappeared. See successful Act 1767 (JH 107.106)

Description:
requesting to substitute a tax for present statute of labour to repair roads in the area


Comment:
A similar measure re England was thrown out at the same time (heard two months hence). Both went to CWH. Hope Weir chaired the Scots  measure and piloted the bill through the house. Copy of the Act available in HCPP.  V. detailed re traffic and evasion of tolls and damage to roads by wheeled traffic.

Description:
Act for better preservation of turnpike roads in Scotland


Comment:
Leave given in 1757 to  bring in a bill. Townshend and Mr Bacon to prepare it. But it got no further. 19 Dec 1759 petition re Dalkeith 2 Penies Scots re-presented to HC, then  'lost' acc to report on 20 Feb 1760 when it was again presented to HC, and referred to previous committee.
3 Mar, Mr Bacon reported; leave given to bring in a bill (Bacon, Hewitt and Townshend to prepare).

Supporters:
McKenzie, Oswald, Hamilton, Campbell of Calder

Description:
present income insufficient to care for poor (in new workhouse), repair steeple, supply fresh water


Comment:
LR and Fletcher to prepare bill. 5/3/60 LR reported. Walter Scott took to HL .  Bill extended at 2R to include part of road from Kelso and Jedburgh by Lauder + bridge over water of Leider

Promoters:
Lord Register (Hume Campbell), Andrew Fletcher

Supporters:
Duke of Douglas, Earl of Haddington. Lord Home, Grant of Prestongrange,  Paterson  of Eccles,Home of Wedderburn, Lord Kames et al

Description:
Road from Dean Bridge, Soutra, Greenlaw, Coldstream (+ Bridge over Tweed) … nearest road from London to Edinburgh, poor conditions.. Impassible in winter… need bridge over Tweed. Leave given for bill to repair road + build bridge over Tweed.


Description:
Act for repealing an Act of the Scots Parliament anent salmon fishing in the River Nyth


Comment:
Large committee of Scots +  5 English  MPs. Elliot introduced bill. Rejected at 2R, 194:84

Promoters:
Gilbert Elliot, James Oswald, William Mure

Description:
12 March. CWH chaired by James Oswald,  Resolved: that the laws now in being for  regulating of the Militia in … Scotland are ineffectual…. Leave given to bring in a bill


Comment:
Petition sent to committee headed by Oswald, LA Scotland, Veitch, Mr Hope, Mr Campbell, Mr Muir, Lord Register Scotland, +  English MPS. Nothing more heard of this petition

Description:
Petition refers to previous Act for water supply (1756) – obstruction by landowner, referral to law. Much greater expense. Dire need of water for poor. Request leave to bring in a bill allowing them to levy money from heritors to cover necessary costs


Description:
Bill to allow him to act as legal representative for his uncle, the marquis of Annandale (lunatic) re land exchange in Dumfries


Comment:
Veitch piloted the bill through the House, chairing a CWH on 15/5/60

Description:
for revising and continuing an act (of 1748)  re  trial and punishment of high treason in the Highlands. Also continuing two other (disarming) acts


Description:
A Bill to remove the disabilities imposed by Attainder and allow him to sue, inherit etc.


Comment:
Petition referred to Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Justice Wilmot to check whether appropriate consents had been sought. No further progress.

Description:
Petition requesting permission for sale of land between earl and countess of Lauderdale


Short name:
Act for the better preservation of game in Scotland

Comment:
SRPs present in HL on 7/3/61 when bill arrived: Argyll, Lauderdale, Loudoun, Findlater, Breadalbane, Aberdeen, Marchmont, Hyndford

Description:
As the name suggests. Division called over wording of amendments.


Promoters:
LA Scotland, Abercrombie, Ross Mackye, Crawford

Supporters:
Provost and others in Dumfries; Wedderburn, Townshend, Mr Grant

Description:
Request to continue and increase duties first granted 1718. V. detailed report from LA (accounts, geography of area)


Comment:
JH - no record of this. Nothing further heard beyond first petition. LA (Miller 1760-66) was the local MP.

Description:
need money to repair 5-arch stone bridge built c 1704. Tolls permits just expired


Comment:
Petition referred to a large committee from which Erskine reported  (8/2/62). It then went to a CWH. It reappears as part of a supply bill (29/3/62) when it was resolved to provide £4000 to the commissioners apptd by earlier act [1760] to repair and maintain the road and build the bridge.  No further mention of this but presumably unnecessary as it was passed as part of the supply bill.

Description:
Petition from earl of Lauderdale and others complaining of the state of the main road from Edinburgh to Newcastle (via Carfraemill, Greenlaw and Coldstream) and need for a bridge over the Tweed at Coldstream. Request leave to bring in a bill for repairing the road and building the bridge and for funds to do this.


Short name:
Act for the relief of vassals (Scotland)

Comment:
JH- no traceable ref for this bill. CWH chaired by LA, who took bill to HL

Description:
bill for relief of vassals of annexed estates and for enforcing an act of [1760] [supply act] for settling the finances of the forfeited estates of Simon, Lord Lovat


Short name:
Scotland: adjournment of the Court of Session

Description:
bill to allow Judges in the CS to adjourn the court between 20 Dec and 16 Jan.


Comment:
Promoter probably David Scott (MP, Aberdeen Burghs)

Description:
Request for the continuation of this tax (for repair and rebuilding of harbour etc) for another 25 years.


Comment:
No further progress in this session. See 1764 JH 104.086

Promoters:
Sir Alexander Gilmour, LA (Miller), Coutts, Townshend

Supporters:
Earl of Lauderdale, Robert Dundas, Lord Provost etc; Grant, Hope Weir

Description:
Need more in the way of tolls to repair the roads (Cramond-Queensferry-Linlithgow). Leave given to bring in a bill to amend and render more effectual two previous acts


Comment:
This was a parallel one to that passed in England at the same time.

Promoters:
Lord Advocate, Wedderburn, Fletcher, Dempster

Description:
Resulted from a motion to read an old act regulating the making of bread in Scotland. Leave given to bring in a bill for explaining, amending and making more effectual said bill (re adulteration of bread and punishment therefor)


Comment:
Dalrymple presented the bill and piloted it through the HC.  Supporters  listed were on 2R committee

Description:
For continuation of 2 Scots penies levy:for improving the harbour, repairing the town house, building a school and other public buildings. And supply of fresh water. Ordered that Sir Hugh, Mr Vane and Mr Fletcher prepare and bring in a bill


Comment:
Gilmour heard the petition along with supporters. 1 Feb - leave to bring in a bill. Townshend andTucker; no other  Scots. Gilmour headed committtee on 2R, and thereafter piloted the bill through the HC

Supporters:
Mr Murray, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr Dempster, Mr Edmonstone, Sir Alexander Grant, Mr Oswald. Pryce Campbell

Description:
Roads poor and  impassable. Scotsdyke (Dumfries) to Haremoss (Roxburgh) via Hawick


Comment:
Referring to previous petitions for resources to maintain roads – eg Cramond to Queensferry. (Subsequent division in House recorded only 95 votes) Dempster and Oswald added to committee apptd after 2R

Supporters:
Robert Dundas, LP and others, Trustees, freeholders and heritors. Mr Hope Weir, Mr Daniel Campbell, Mr Craufurd, Mr Wedderburn, Mr Mackay, Mr Pringle, Mr Mackenzie, Mr Ross, Mr Coutts

Description:
They need further Tolls and powers. Leave given to bring in bill to repair the roads and make previous two acts more effective.


Comment:
Nothing seems to have happened at first motion. Repeated on 9/2/1764, then CWH on 24/2/1764. Bill to be prepared, report produced on 10/4/1764, then nothing. Reactivated on 1765 with new committee but last heard of 1/4/65 when report from CWH was postponed. Hoppit mentions a similar failure in 1755, but not in this parliament

Description:
Concern was mainly in England at effects of (ill-advised) runaway marriages (Gretna Green) on estates and settlements. Wanted to repeal earlier (1753) act, encourage regular forms of marriage, remove doubtd re validity of certain forms of marriage in Scotland and elsewhere


Comment:
Parallel petition at the same time from merchants in New England and London, seeking to remove the duty on their UK imports. Oswald engaged on both bills. See Whale fishing file in 1761 Parlt

Promoters:
Major, Oswald, Fuller, Henniker, Dickinson

Description:
Aim was to continue the bounty on whale products for those fishing in the ''Davis Streights' and Greenland seas. Clear ref to merchants 'from both parts of the United Kingdom'.


Comment:
Ordered to lie 19/03/1764. Wrongly labelled in HCJ as 19/3/64. Should be 19/5/64.Another (successful) attempt in 1765 (105.049)


Comment:
Frederick Campbell reported on Petition on 30 Mar. To go to CWH, which met 5 April chaired by Edmonstone. Thereafter it got lost. It was annexed to a supply bill, but this instruction was 'discharged' shortly afterward.  See also British Fishery Act of 1765

Promoters:
Lord Frederick Campbell, Archibald Edmonstone

Supporters:
Glasgow merchants and traders and  many others.  Dempster,  Sir Alexander Grant (named twice), Mr Mackay, Col Montgomery,Coutts, Oswald and Mr Elliot

Description:
Refers to much previous legislation, then – recently large quantities of Swedish of salted and cured Swedish white herring have been imported to Cork in Ireland and sold there, partly for home consumption and partly for re-shipping to the British islands in the WI, to the detriment of the British white herring fishery ‘which is a great nursery for seamen and gives bread and employment to many thousands' Seeking relief.


Comment:
Terms of purchase of Isle of Man by the Crown from duke of Atholl were the subject of a long-running dispute

Description:
The Act which was passed was designed  to prevent smuggling from the Isle of Man


Description:
Part of a UK bill to increase judges salaries: proviso remained that they were to be paid out of Scottish revenue


Comment:
Petition referredd to committee headed by Mr Elliot, and including Edmonstone, Abercrombie. Nothing further. No mention by JH, possibly due to 'Devon' ref? Failed

Description:
petition from Lord Cathcart re his coal mines in Sauchie – wanting a bill  to improve the navigation of the River Devon from Vicarsbridge to the Forth and for improving the navigation of the Forth from the Devon to Alloa


Comment:
To go to committee headed by Mr Hamilton, including Mr Elliot, Sir Lawrence Dundas, Sir James Campbell and others. Nothing further, but see 105.026. Letter from Samual Garbett from Birmingham sought Oswald's support for this project. (See Oswald Memorial)

Description:
Petition from noblemen, turnpike trustees etc in county of Stirling re Carron Navigation; want to improve the river, suggest linking the Forth and the Clyde


Short name:
Banks and Banking Companies in North Britain

Comment:
This was a Scottish bill with a high-powered team. Gilmour reported from CWH. LA took to HL.   HCJ records that HC did not agree to HL amendments to 1st bill. Next attempt treated as a new bill - new name

Promoters:
LA Scotland, Gilmour, Frederick Campbell, Elliot, Coutts, Oswald

Description:
Aim was to eliminate the issue of notes for  unduly small amounts (under 20/-)


Comment:
Petition sent to large committee incl. Orwell (1st), Frederick Campbell, General Graeme, Wedderburn, Lord Wm Campbell, Sir Alex. Grant, McKenzie, Oswald, Elliot. JH has this as Failed legislation - nothing beyond 8/3/1765. But RA recorded in HCJ, as below.

Description:
An act for the further encouragement of this fishery. Ref previous acts [1750] bounties etc about to expire; losses occasioned by prev legislation but industry buoyant, want to continue, need further financial help.


Comment:
Graeme reported from initial committee, then Dempster took the lead. Also on committee - Townshend, Wedderburn, Gilmour

Promoters:
Dempster, Graeme, Crawford, Drummond, LA

Description:
Well-worded request: would be of public utility, conducive to civilising highlands, promoting industry by opening up communications to military roads and bridges already there. Need Parliament's aid.


Comment:
Committee: Mr Elliot, Mr Oswald, [Lord Garlies, Lord Mountstuart], Mr Wedderburn + Eng  MPs.  2R committee: Elliot  [Lord Garlies] Lord Frederick Campbell [Mr Dundas, Lord Mountstuart] Sir Alexander Gilmour

Supporters:
inhabitants of Lauder and other villages

Description:
complaining of state of road from Lauder through Bridgehaugh and Birkensyde, via Smailholme and Kelso to the Marchburn dividing England and Scotland. Requesting financial help to repair and maintain the road.


Comment:
JH classifies it as govt because it involved forfeited estates. Graeme, Oswald, LA to prepare. LA chaired CWH. Oswald reported and took bill to HL

Promoters:
Breadalbane (absent), LA, Oswald, Graeme

Description:
Wanted a land exchange, of two parcels of land for two small parcels of annexed estates; Commissioners (for annexed estates presum.) have drawn up estimates and authorised [him to proceed.] Requested permission to submit his petition after 15 Feb, when he was back in London


Short name:
Glasgow Roads (Cumbernauld, Kirkintilloch, Airdrie)

Comment:
JH  refers to it as Inchbelly Bridge to Glasgow road.

Promoters:
Edmonstone ,Sir Laurence Dundas, Mr Dundas, Lord Frederick Campbell, Wedderburn, LA,

Description:
Petition by the Trustees set up by an earlier act (26 Geo II). They  require further powers; needed for wheeled carriages etc


Comment:
Committee report by LA; Oswald took to HL. 2R. then committee headed by LA  (Scotland) + Edmonstone, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr Campbell, [Mr Dundas], Mr Oswald, Mr Wedderburn ,Mr Pryse Campbell

Description:
Motion made for extending an act referring to England to include Scotland ‘as far as [it] relates to the transportation of felons; and for amending and rendering more effectual the restraining Muirburn in forbidden Time: LA Scotland, Oswald and Elliot to prepare and bring in


Comment:
Petition referred to a large (40+) committee headed by Frederick Campbell.

Promoters:
MPs representing Glasgow and the West of Scotland

Supporters:
merchants, traders and manufacturers  in vicinity of Glasgow

Opposition:
Proposal for a larger canal supported by interests in the east

Description:
This is the 'small' canal, proposed from the West.This proposal was overtaken by one from the east for a 'big' canal and got no further than 2R. 14/5/67 proposal postponed indefinitely


Comment:
29 March:  new petition presented:  they now want a theatre, and need letters patent. 10 April, Coutts reported from committee

Promoters:
Coutts (1st), Mr Dundas, Gilmour, Lawrence Dundas, [Mountstuart], Frederick Campbell, Holburne, LA, Mr Mackenzie, Oswald, Gilbert Elliot

Description:
Want permission to extend the Royalty of Edinburgh to include these new lands so that citizens living there may not be able to escape the cess laid on the original burgh, and to make further improvements. Initial ref to a previous act [of 1750] giving powers for land purchase and erecting new buildings (suitable for metropolis)


Comment:
Previous 1759 attempt unsuccessful. This also had difficulties. It passed HC then disappeared. Re-introduced by Col. Montgomery 28/5, then passed straight through.

Promoters:
LA reports,  Mr Craufurd and Col.Montgomery,  Pryce Campbell, Gilbert Elliot, Sir Alexander Gilmour , Mr Dundas, Sir Lawrence Dundas

Description:
Road improvement bill. Supplementary petition re other roads in region sent to a 2nd committee


Comment:
107.007. Got no further than committee to investigate petition

Promoters:
Coutts, LA, Mr Weir, Frederick Campbell, Stuart Mackenzie, Wedderburn

Supporters:
Earl of Hopteoun, Freeholders, JPs, Heritors of Linlithgow and Lanark, + suppport of officials of Glasgow and Edinburgh

Description:
Edinburgh-Bathgate-Airdrie-Glasgow. New route shorter than present route but impassible for carriages; benefits of widening and improving; request leave for bill.


Comment:
Probably trying to cash in on Carron-Clyde proposal. They want an additional cut in the canal from Bo'ness. Date 1 is earliest traced. Petition probably during Feb 67.

Promoters:
Frederick Campbell+ Alexander Gilmour, Edmonstone, Wedderburn Mr Ross, Lord Fife, Mr Mackenzie, [Lord Mountstuart], LA, [Lord Garlies], Lord Panmure Mr Campbell

Description:
Bill to extend two penies duty for repair of harbour and other purposes


Comment:
No JH ref. traced for this. 18 Dec, T. Dundas presented the bill; other petitions considered; 12 Feb Dundas reported on Bill

Promoters:
Thomas Dundas, Graeme, Edmonstone, Scott, Elliot, Sir James Douglas, Sir Alexander Grant, L. Dundas, Holburne, LA

Supporters:
landholders, mags from East + CRB, Haddington Commissioners of supply

Description:
Counter-proposal to Glasgow bill, this one proposing a larger project, while Glasgow project progressing through Parliament.


Short name:
for encouraging the raising of flax and hemp in Great Britain

Comment:
Proposal referred to in Linlithgow TC minutes. Final stages of bill traced via HLJ. Present - Argyll, Eglintoun, Loudoun, (March once), Marchmont.

Description:
Part of a supply bill for imposing duties on certain foreign imported linens AND establishing fund for raising flax and hemp.


Comment:
11/05 is earliest date traced. Went to CWH

Promoters:
Chancellor of Exchequer,  Attorney General, Solicitor General

Description:
Bill for enforcing the execution of an act of last session of parliament, ie for repealing certain duties on houses, windows and lights and with replacing those with other duties  on same items and for explaining same.


Comment:
Large initial committee: Abercromby (first named) Col. Scott, Edmonstone, Sir Gilbert Elliot, Wedderburn, Lawrence Dundas, Mr Dundas, Sir James Douglas, Sir Alexander Grant, General Graeme, Admiral Holburne, LA Scotland +  English MPs. Bill introduced by Dundas; R1 14/1/68. Nothing further.

Supporters:
Heritors and freeholders of the county of Clackmannan.

Description:
Road between Stirling and Muckhart needs repair; request for bill for turnpike  and tolls.


Promoters:
Mr Edmonstone, Mr Pennant, Daniel Campbell, LA Scotland

Opposition:
Gentlemen  of Lanark, Renfrew, burgh of Rutherglen (Alternative  proposal)

Description:
Have erected a new church and need a passage from there to the Salt Market; have also built a town hall near Glasgow Cross; they want also an Exchange for merchants and business and have purchased various properties, but not enough; also re a previous act for building a bridge across the river from Gorbals to the city, the tolls are being affected by the existence of fords across the river. So they want to bring in a bill which will let them widen the street from salt market to the new church, build an exchange in the vicinity and explain and amend the previous act regarding the river crossing.


Promoters:
Elliot, Mr Dundas, Edmonstone, Sir Alexander Grant, LA

Description:
Ruinous conditions in the area; need for new bridge over Tweed.


Comment:
Pringle piloted the bill through. Prepared bill with Elliot, Wauchope and Coutts

Promoters:
Mr Pringle (1st), Sir Gilbert Elliot, Mr Wedderburn, LA Scotland

Supporters:
Several persons resident and using the roads

Description:
Ruinous condition; no means of repair; request leave to bring in a bill for repairing said roads


Promoters:
Sir Hew Dalrymple (1st) [Lord Garlies], Mr Wedderburn, Mr Dundas, Sir Lawrence Dundas, Mr Pringle, Gilbert Elliot

Description:
Have made arrangements with the present proprietors to pass through their land to enable a water supply for Dunbar; are apprehensive about the security of these arrangements without confirmation by Parliament, and want a bill introduced to secure this.


Comment:
29/1/67: petitions from HM british subjects, and 5 Feb CRB petition, got nowhere. New attempt 1768. (no person appeared to support case from CRB)

Supporters:
merchants and tradesmen of Liverpool, CRB, British merchants, Newcastle, Kingston upon Hull

Description:
CWH agree to extend subsidy to 1770 and then to the end of the next session of Parliament.  Committee to prepare a bill: 6 incl Pryse Campbell.


Comment:
Elliot piloted the bill through (16 Feb Roxburgh roads wrongly side-headed as Roxburgh inclosure in HCJ).

Promoters:
Sir Gilbert Elliot, Mr Edmonstone, Mr Campbell, Mr Oswald, Mr Wedderburn

Description:
This seems to have stemmed from a single petition covering roads in both Roxburgh and Selkirk (see 108.059) but ended as two separate Acts, both receiving Royal assent on 08/03/1768.


Short name:
duke of Queensberry and Dover's estate bill

Comment:
22/3/1769. LA reported on bill; agreed. Taken back to HL. Copy of Act held in Private and local bills HCPP, dated 28 October 1768, possibly the date of its introduction

Description:
bill arranging settlement of part of duke's lands in Dumfries


Comment:
Leave given to bring in a bill to amend and explain the previous act, and to build a bridge across the river to the Gorbals  (already consented to)  Frederick Campbell, Chas Whitworth  and Edmonstone to prepare. Bill presented 23 March, but no further progress this session (picked up again 1770)

Description:
Petition reported on new survey since last request; that river is from 1 to 4 ft deep, with many bars… unfit for purpose… need to straiten, embank and dredge the river rather than what the previous Act proposed which was locks and dams,… need to cut the width of the channel and dredge the bottom which will give a depth of from 7 to 4 feet of water.. Estimated cost of £8640.


Comment:
Usual format of past diligence, great progress, but terms and powers of the original act need to be enlarged and continued.

Promoters:
Sir George Suttie, Col.Warrender, Wedderburn

Description:
a bill for enlarging the powers of a previous act for repairing roads in Haddingtonshire; Dunglass Bridge to Haddington town and Haddington town to Ravenshaugh Burn


Comment:
Leave given to continue the duty; Mr Lyon and Mr Wynn (on previous committee re Carnaervon roads) to prepare a bill.

Description:
requesting  continuation of levy. Shortfall between expenditure and income; spending  on works for supplying the town with fresh water.


Comment:
Leave given to bring in a bill.  Bill brought in on 7 Feb. but got no further. Resurrected next session (28 Feb 1770)

Description:
First attempt at reforming entail. Bill was to encourage the improvement of lands, tenements and hereditaments in …. Scotland, held under settlement of strict entail


Comment:
26 Jan: Col. Hepburn reportd from committee on Kincardine-Aberdeen road. William Gordon provided evidence to support petition. Leave given to bring in a bill. Hepburn and Sir Chas Whitworth to prepare [Whitworth then chaired CWH on Ways and Means]. 29 Jan Hepburn 	presentd the bill. To  go to  2nd R, but no further action.

Description:
Existing  provision inadequate, request permission to bring in a bill.


Comment:
Date 1 was earliest ref.  found. 6 Mar
Frederick Campbell reported from the committee.  Wm Bogle, examined, confirmed the allegations in the petitions; leave given to bring in a bill  9 Mar,Lockhart Ross presented bill. 22 Mar
Lockhart Ross reported on the Clyde Hamilton bill; to be engrossed.

26 Mar
Hamilton bill passed. Lockhart Ross to take to HL

Description:
Fords in the R Clyde (there) are too deep, variable and dangerous and the ferry inconvenient; bridge needed for completing roads from Edinburgh via Hamilton through county of Lanark . Further petition with suggested additions  referred to the committee also.


Comment:
Fred Campbell and Lockhart Ross to prepare bill. 11 Ap, HL agree to Monkland Canal bill

Description:
Price of pit coal daily increasing in Glasgow to the detriment of trade and manufactures; there are almost inexhaustible funds of coal in the parishes of Old and New Monklands, which can be wrought at reasonable expense but cannot easily be brought to Glasgowe by land carriage; surveys show that a navigable cut could be made passing through these collieries to Glasgow… voluntary subscription opened, several thousand pounds subscribed, but need of parliamentary permission.


Comment:
Petition to go to a committee – Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr Edmonstone etc; 13 Mar,leave given to bring in the Clyde navigation improvement bill (seems like another try after failed petition 20 Mar 1769). Frederick Campbell and Edmonstone to prepare. 19 Mar, bill presented; to go to 2R;  passed on 9 April. Frederick Campbell to take to HL

Supporters:
Magistrates and council of Glasgow, traders and inhabitants

Description:
Petition recited several parts of an act made in 1759 for improving the navigation of the Clyde to Glasgow and building a bridge across the river… since then a more accurate survey has been taken… advised by able engineers that great improvements may be made to the navigation of the river… but as by the said act the levying of rates and duties thereby stands suspended till lock(s)  authorised in the act are erected. Needs a new plan for levying and collecting duties and increased powers for magistrates… and a proper consideration granted to them for their trouble and labour and the increased risk to their stock in improving the navigation… requesting leave to bring in a bill to amend and explain the previous act and for the other purposes mentioned.


Short name:
Encouragement of British and Irish linen manufacture

Comment:
Date 1 is earliest date found. 12 Apr, Mr Dundas reported from CWH. 8 May 
Linen bill (Mr. Dundas’s) passed 3R. Gilmour to take to HL.

Promoters:
Mr Dundas, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Sir Lawrence Dundas + 6 English MPs

Description:
Recommend continuing bounties on export of British and Irish linens, duties on the import of foreign raw linen yarns made from flax to be further discontinued; bounty to be allowed on the export of British 'chequed'   and striped linens, and the sum of £15000,'previously granted' to  be appropriated…Bills to be brought in.


Short name:
Church Ministers tax exemption (Scotland)

Comment:
Petition to lie on the table. No further action. Alexander Carlyle charged with trying to further this when visiting London 1769. See Notes in Carlyle File. (+Anecdotes p271)

Supporters:
General Assembly (Church of Scotland), Alexander Carlyle

Description:
They had always considered by several Acts of the Scottish Parliament that glebe, manses and stipends of ministers were exempt from house and window taxes  but now are being prosecuted for non-payment . Want a bill to enshrine their exemptions in law.


Supporters:
Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde canal

Description:
River Carron to Dalmuir (forth and Clyde Canal) Petition from proprietors who want to alter the course of the canal, bringing it several miles nearer Glasgow (same cost)


Description:
Trustees appointed to execute previous act of 1768 have borrowed £3000 on credit of tolls but need more and need authorisation.


Comment:
JH 112.011. Petition referred to committee under   Edmonstone and Mr Dundas. No further action. (GCA, burgh minutes 14/3/72).

Description:
Refer to two previous acts [1753, 1754] for road maintenance.Ongoing.  But want a separate trust for this area


Comment:
LA reported from committee. LA + Dickson to prepare bill. 9 Apr
Peebles bill passed HC. LA to take to HL

Promoters:
LA  Montgomery, Elliot, Dickson, Wedderburn

Description:
Roads, Peebles to King's Seatedge, Gatehope, Know Burnfoot and Minch Moor and Lochhead - ruinous, narrow, incommodious; need bill authorising repairs.


Comment:
James dundas reported from committee. Leave given to bring in bill. Dundases + Gilmour to prepare. James Dundas piloted it through parlt

Promoters:
Edmonstone, Mr Dundas, Mr James Dundas, Gilmour

Supporters:
Noblemen, Trustees, others in Linlithgow, Fife

Description:
Ref previous act [1751], insufficient funds, + debts; need a bill to enlarge powers and terms of previous act


Comment:
Added petition from Nicholson Park. Gilmour reported. Referred to original committee + powers to include water, sewers and drains. James Dundas reported from committee. Gilmour took bill to HL

Promoters:
Mr (James) Dundas, Frederick Campbell, Gilmour

Description:
streets overcrowded, badly lit, watched and cleansed; request a bill to put this right.


Comment:
Referred to committee. Mr Dundas reported (no evidence from 2nd petition). Bill to come in. After 2R, committed to Mr Dundas and Edmonstone

Promoters:
Mr Dundas, [Lord Garlies], Sir Lawrence Dundas, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Edmonstone

Opposition:
Petition from Earl of Moray objecting to proposal (self-interest)

Description:
need help with cleaning, lighting streets, providing fresh water, regulating transport etc


Comment:
Petition referred to committee. Col. Pringle reported; leave given for bill. Pringles + Dickson to prepare. No further progress (26 Feb)

Promoters:
Mr Dickson, Mr Dundas, Col. Pringle, Mr Pringle

Description:
Roads from Ednam to Berwick and to Eymouth (?) dangerous and frequently impassible; want a bill to enable making and mending roads and amending Statute of Labour


Comment:
Date 1 is earliest found,when supplementary petitions were presented.  7/3/71 Gilmour presented bill. 30 March, Edmonstone reported from committee + amendments; bill to be engrossed

Supporters:
Earls of Eglintoun, Loudoun and Dumfries + David Kennedy, Ayrshire MP

Opposition:
LP, Magistrate and TC (Glasgow) + Freeholders, heritors, Trustees (Lanark)

Description:
Request to enlarge terms and powers of previous legisation re roads from Livingstone to Glasgow vua Kirk o'Shotts, and by Hamilton to Strathaven and from Lochgate (Ayr) to Strathaven


Comment:
17/4: Edmonstone presented bill. To go to 2R. 19/4 bill, committed to Edmonstone, Frederick Campbell. 25 Ap, Edmonstone to take to HL

Description:
Leave given to bring in a bill for widening highways in Scotland


Comment:
21 Feb: Frederick Campbell reported from committee. Leave given to bring in a bill. 13 Mar -Glasgow Harbour bill read a second time: to go committee of  Frederick Campbell, Mr Dundas etc. 

(Port) Glasgow Harbour bill read 3 time and passed; Fred Campbell to take to H/L

Promoters:
Fred Campbell, Mr Edmonstone, LA Scotland, Mr McDowell

Description:
petition of the Magistrates and council of the city of Glasgow presented, requesting permission to bring in a bill to deepen and otherwise improve the harbour of Port Glasgow (much more shipping than before, facilities can’t cope) and for giving the magistratess etc such powers as required to execute same and maintain in future.


Comment:
A 2nd petition requested a bridge over the Clyde on the road between Corsethill and Parish-holm. Piloted through by Lockhart Ross with support.

Promoters:
Capt (Lockhart) Ross, Mr Edmonstone, Sir Alexander Gilmour

Supporters:
heritors and others + supplementary suppporting petition

Description:
Petition re Lanark roads from heritors and others concernecd high road from Ingleston Bridge by Biggar to Leadhills …. Via Menock and Enterkin, and the High road from the confines of Lanark via Corsethill, Carnwath, Carstairs,  Douglasmiln, Parish Holm and from there to the confines of the county near Muirkirk…. And the high road from the confines of the county near to Loch-head, via Elsrickle, Carnwath, Carstairs, Carluke, Wishaw and to the chapel of Ease on the road from Ediburgh to Glasgow…. And the High road from Hamilton, via Douglasmiln, Elvanfoot and to the confines of the county near Moffat are [in poor condition ( details); need some provision to be made by Parliament [for repair and maintenance] and also for removing some doubts re previous acts; request  leave to bring in a bill


Comment:
21 Feb, Edmonstone reported;  leave given to bring in a bill, Edmonstone and Fred Campbell to prepare; 5 Mar
Mr Edmonstone presented the bill. To go to 2R; 9 March, bill gets 2R: committed to Frederick Campbell, Edmonstone

Promoters:
Mr Edmonstone (first named), Lord Frederick Campbell etc

Supporters:
freeholders, JPs. Commissioners of supply and other heritors in Dumbarton, Lanark and Renfrew

Description:
by 2 acts passed in the 26 and 27 years of the reign of his late majesty (1753 and 1754?)  the road from Glasgow to the town of Dumbarton ‘was directed to be repaired’.. But it is not yet, nor can be completed during the subsisting term or under the provisions of the said acts … would be better if the same was made a separate District and trust … and that the above Acts should be explained, amended and enlarged respecting the road in question… and that the statute labour should be put under proper regulations.. Requesting leave to bring in a bill


Comment:
27 Feb, Gen. Graeme reported from  the committee; leave given to bring in bill; on 2R, committed to Graeme, Edmonstone; Gen. Graeme reported on  bill + amendments made by his committee – agreed to; bill to be engrossed; Graeme to take to HL

Promoters:
Gen. Graeme, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Dempster

Description:
Act passed [1753]for repairing the road from North Queensferry through Inverkeithing nd Kinross to the town of Perth; and also the road from Queensferry to the town of Dunfermline, Torryburn and Culross, and also the road from Queensferry through Inverkeithing, to Burntisland and Kirkcaldie…. Trustees have tried to repair said roads but funds insufficient … need term of previous act to be extended, and powers extended and enlarged


Comment:
Convoluted history. See HCJ 29/1/71 for earlier, failed attempt. Leave  given to bring in another bill;  6 Mar,  Gilmour presented the bill; to go to 2R ; 9 Mar, committed to Gilmour, Edmonstone; 27 Mar, passed 3R. 4 May: leave given to introduce this bill again. Gilmour, LA and Dundas to prepare. Memo made in records of the House that a similar bill had already passed the Commons this session but was rejected by  HL on account of containing too many bits and pieces (multifarious matter). Therefore, after debate, new, slimmed down version permitted to be brought in.

Promoters:
Sir Alexander Gilmour, LA Scotland, Mr Thomas Dundas and Sir George Suttie

Description:
Bill for the better regulation of carters, carriages, loaded horses, pedlars, tinkers and petty chapmen, and for closing up  coal and other pits and sinks and removing obstructions and nuisances in … Scotland


Comment:
1st committee -  Mr Pringle, Mr Hotham etc;  28 Feb, Col. Pringle reported; leave given to bring in a bill. Col. Pringle, Sir George Suttie and  Sir James Cockburne to prepare; 2 Mar, Col. Pringle presented bill: to go to 2R.

Promoters:
Col. Pringle, Mr Hotham, Sir George Suttie, Sir James Cockburn

Supporters:
Petition of noblemen and  of gentlemen heretors of county of Berwick

Description:
several roads in Berwick – Ednam, Eccles, Swinton, Ayton, Eymouth mentioned …. Dangerous and frequently impassible and cannot be repaired and maintained without aid of Parlament


Comment:
Leave given to bring in a bill. LA Scotland and Sir Alexander Gilmour to prepare; 4 Mar - bill presented by LA Scotland. To go to 2R; 11 Mar,  bill committed to LA Scotland, Edmonstone etc; 24 Mar, bill passed at 3R. LA Scotland to take to HL.

Supporters:
Magistrates,the other heretors and landholders in the burgh

Description:
Cannongate .. is not lighted as Edinburgh and has not the protection of the City Guard .. both necessary for the inhabitants and the resident of Edinburgh who travel between the 2 burghs .. provision needed for lighting cleaning and watching.. cannot be done without aid of Parliament


Comment:
Committee headed by Mr Stuart and Mr Edmonstone; 6 Mar, Mr Kennedy reported from the  committee; leave given to bring in a bill. Mr Kennedy and Mr James Stuart to prepare; 13 Mar,bill presented by Mr Stuart: to go to 2R; 25 Mar,committed to Mr Kennedy, Gilmour etc at 2R;  HLJ  records royal assent on 16th April.

Supporters:
Councilmen of the burgh of Ayr and various others

Description:
application to parliament to sanction improvements to the harbour; presented a very detailed plan for harbour improvements


Description:
land dispute relating to lands in England


Comment:
No identifible JH Record; 11 Mar,  bill presented by LA;  20 Mar after 2R, went  to CWH; 3 June - returned from HL with 14 amendments, agreed to by HC.

Promoters:
LA, Frederick Campbell, Edmonstone, Pulteney, Dempster

Description:
Leave given to bring in a bill to make the payment of creditors of insolvent debtors more fair and equitable.. And other matters


Comment:
Date 1 is earliest found ; bill read twice then ordered to be engrossed (HL).

Description:
bill to sell off part of Estate (Edinburgh and Berwickshire) of James Cathcart (deceased) and buy other lands.


Comment:
1R on 08/02/1773. Marchmont reported in HL, LA in HC.

Description:
For vesting in John, earl of Hopetoun and his heirs, in fee simple, certain lands, parto fhis entailed estate in the counties of Haddington and Fife; and for settling in lieu thereof, other lands …


Short name:
Greenock Harbour, Renfrewshire, water supply, paving etc
ABERDEEN HARBOUR

Comment:
Engrossed 19/03/1773; passed HC 23/03/1773; McDowall took to HL

Description:
For deepening, cleansing and making more commodious the harbours of the town of Greenock; for supplying the inhabitants with fresh water; and for paving, cleansing, lighting and watching …


Comment:
2R  23/02/1773; 3R 23/03/1773; piloted through by Lyon; 1st committee headed by McDowall and Edmonstone; Lyon introduced the bill; committtee after 3R headed by Lyon and Frederick Campbell

Promoters:
Lyon, McDowall, Edmonstone, Frederick Campbell

Description:
For deepening, cleansing and aking more commodious the harbour of Aberdeen; for erecting new piers and quays therein; and for regulating ships and vessels trading into and out of the said harbour.


Short name:
Forth and Clyde Canal, Stirlingshire and Dumbartonshire

Comment:
They have spent all their subscription. Petition is late because information not available till after their AGM which was after the day set by parlt for submitting petitions. But delay for another session will cause considerable loss to the public. Assertion backed by several members  'in their places’. – Parlt consented, under the special circumstances, to accept the petition. Piloted by ?Dundas, introduced and reported; 2R29/03/1973.

Promoters:
Mr Dundas, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Mr Crowle

Description:
To enlarge the powers of 2 acts [8 & 11 Geo 3] ... For making and maintaining a navigable cut or canal from the  River Forth … in the county of Stirling  to the firth  of Clyde in the county of Dumbarton… and to Glasgow.


Comment:
JH gives origin as Ord/L. Bill introduced and piloted by LA (Reporter); 2R 17/05/1773

Description:
For the more effectual preservationof game in Scotland; nd for repealking and amending several of the laws now in being relative thereto.


Comment:
(HCJ page 2 is blank).  Kennedy reported and  piloted the bill through the House.

Description:
Petition from Trustees appointed by 1767 Act; have run our of money; huge list of County roads needing repair.


Comment:
24/02/1774,  petition referred to committee. 1/3, Oswald reported. 17/3, he presented  the bill. At 2R, went to Oswald and Edmonstone. 20 Apr, Lords agreed to the Kinghorn Duties.

Promoters:
Oswald, Frederick Campbell, Whitworth, Edmonstone

Description:
They want to continue terms of act of [1749]


Comment:
1 Mar,  LA reported on  petition; leave given to bring in a bill. LA, Dempster, Lawrence Dundas and 4 others (Eng) to prepare; 8 Mar,LA presented  bill. At 2R, committed to Frederick Campbell, Edmonstone etc; 23 Mar, LA reported on  bill, with amendments;to be engrossed;  passed on a division of 176:36 after a petition objecting to a part of the bill from the merchants and traders of the City of London; passed (HLJ) 31/3/74.

Promoters:
LA, Dempster, Lawrence Dundas, Frederick Campbell, Edmonstone.

Description:
Rehearsal of the measures taken so far to deal with the fallout from the bank’s collapse; putting before parliament proposal to use unentailed land in Scotland as security for payment of some of the money; the care of investigating the titles to and values of these lands be left in the hands of the LA Scotland, Sol-Gen. Scotland, and supervised by Wedderburn and another English lawyer … proposals already set out, drawn up with safeguards … Dempster to be one of the overall Inspectors of the procedings. They want a bill to give effect to their proposals.


Comment:
1 Mar,LA  reported from the committee dealing with the BoS request; to go to CWH; 15 Mar - Frederick Campbell presented bill to allow BoS to increase capital stock. To go to 2R;  26 Apr,
engrossed bill to increase capital stock of BoS passed. LA to carry to HL.

Description:
Requesting leave for a bill to increase the capital stock of the bank.


Comment:
1 Mar, Frederick Campbell’s report : leave given to bring in a bill: to go to Frederick Campbell, LA, Edmonstone; 3 Mar,
 Frederick Campbell reported from committee; bill to go to 2R; 22 Mar
petitions against the Gorbals bridge, from Renfrew etc; to lie on the table till report on earlier petition is produced. Dempster reported 30/3. Division on amendments - 101 (Frederick Campbell, T) vs 12 (McDowell, Crawford T)

Opposition:
petitions against the Gorbals bridge, from Renfrew, county and burgh, Paisley Magistrates.

Description:
Ref.to acts of 1759 and 1768 re improved navigation up to Glasgow and building bridge across river to Gorbals; need new bill to explain and amend previous laws + repair, widen and enlarge the old Gorbals Bridge.


Comment:
Fife Highways and Bridges. 1st committee headed by LA, Edmonstone.  Gen. Scott reported  from committee examining Earl of Leven etc’s petition. Leave given to bring in a bill. Gen. Scott, LA Scotland, Gilbert Elliot, Mr Oswald (son) Wemyss, Lawrence Dundas  to prepare.

Promoters:
LA, Edmonstone, Gen. Scott, Gilbert Elliot, Mr Oswald, Wemyss, Lawrence Dundas

Description:
Resources insufficient for number of roads and bridges in county; need more powers and provisions.


Comment:
No identifiable JH No. Long description on reason for petition  on 28/2/1774. 04/03/1774,  CWH chaired by Cooper; leave given to bring in a bill; to be prepared by 6 English MPs + LA Scotland and Elliot; 23 Mar, LA to take  bill to HL

Description:
Bill enabling the King  to restore estates of Major-General Simon Fraser of Lovat


Comment:
Engrossed bill sent from HL.   At 2R in HC, committed to LA Scotland, Mr Edmonstone etc. RA not traced, but listed as an Act by JH

Description:
Request to sell part of this estate. Act empowers CS judges to sell part/whole of the entailed Barony of Kinross belonging to James Bruce Carstairs to pay debts; rest to be disposed of acc. To entail (Wm Bruce, 1683


Comment:
Failed Legislation, No further action. Attendance in HL about only 18; only Scot was Abercorn.

Description:
No details of petition given in HLJ entry


Comment:
3 Mar, Frederick Campbell reported from the committee on that petition: leave given to bring in a bill: Campbell, LA and Edmonstone to prepare.

Description:
To continue two previous acts (about to expire) re various roads into Glasgow via Yoker,  Renfrew Bridge,  Three Mile House,  Airdrie, and Gorbals to Cambuslang.


Comment:
3 Mar, Glasgow - Cowcaddens roads: Frederick Campbell reported from the committtee considering the petition; leave given to bring in a bill. Frederick Campbell, LA, Edmonstone to prepare; 15 Mar, Glasgow Cowcaddens Garscube roads bill gets 2R; committed to Frederick Campbell, LA Scotland etc

Description:
Concerning road into Glasgow via Cowcaddens


Comment:
28 Mar, leave given to bring in a colliers (coalheavers and salters) bill (Scotland) LA, Gilmour, Edmonstone, to prepare.   R1 on  30/3/74. No progress beyond  12/5/74.

Description:
to emancipate from serfdom (future) colliers and salt panners


Comment:
30 Mar, leave given to bring in a bill to alter and amend the bill (1752) relating to Forfeited Estates leases. LA Scotland and Mr Cooper to prepare; 
 18 April -LA brought in the bill . To go to 2R; 17 May - LA Scotland reported on Forfeited Estates bill; passed 2R with amendments
19 May - Above bill passes 3R: to go to H/L (LA Scotland)

Description:
a bill to alter and amend the bill relating to the Forfeited Estates


Comment:
Hotham  and Edmonstone, reporting  from CWH considering elections generally, recommended a bill for Scotland; 26/4 LA presented bill; 29/4 , to go to CWH; postoned 6 times! 31/5 - Resolved: this house will immediately resolve itself into a CWH (chaired by Edmonstone). Report received next day.

Promoters:
Mr Hotham, LA Scotland, Solicitor General, Frederick Campbell, Lord George Germain, Frederick Montagu, Mr Fuller.

Description:
A bill to alter and amend a previous bill re Scottish elections… to restrain the partiality and regulate the conduct of returning officers (with details) and by regulating the manner and settling the place of election of a burgess (under certain conditions – where presiding burgh is incapable of carrying out its duties). Bill clearly had little effect, given the number of contested elections in 1774.


Comment:
Date1 is the earliest found. Frederick Campbell reported from committee considering engrossed bill from HL. Bill passed 3R to go to HL without amendment.

Description:
(entail matter) for an exchange of lands


Comment:
27 Mar,  Craufurd reported (James Watt a witness); leave given to bring in a bill. Mr Craufurd and Frederick Campbell to prepare; 13 Apr, bill presented; 28 Apr, 2nd reading. Committed to Mr Craufurd, Mr Dundas etc; 9 May, Craufurd reported, bill to be engrossed; 17 May passed by HL

Supporters:
Various local fewars and proprietors (incl. John Craufurd, fewar and Baillie of town of Port Glasgow)

Description:
Looking to be erected into a corporation, to give them the  authority to police the town of Newark + levy 2 penies Scots on ale and beer in Newark,  for civic improvements, (paving, cleaning, lighting and watching the two towns) Port Glasgow: harbour maintenance, stipends of schoolmaster and minister (with consent of magistrates and TC of City of Glasgow, feudal superior of Port G, and Robert Hamilton Wishaw, feudal superior of Newark).


Comment:
Petition referred to  Mr Anstruther, Mr Annesley etc; 7 Mar, bill presented by Anstruther; to go to 2R; 15 Mar, committed to Mr Anstruther, Mr Johnstone etc; 22 Mar, Mr Anstruther reported ; 27 Mar, bill passed. Mr Anstruther to take to HL

Promoters:
Mr Anstruther, Mr Annesley, Mr Johnstone.

Description:
2 Penies Scots act has been of great use – was brought in to pay for a new pier to make the harbour safe, but money isufficiemt – other expenses.. want a bill to prolong said act, due to expire at end of this session.


Comment:
Petition referred to Col. Livingstone, Frederick Campbell etc; 8 Mar,
Livingstone reported from the committee. Leave given to bring in a bill,  Livingstone, Frederick Campbell, Edmonstone, LA Scotland,  Mr Henry Dundas to prepare; 22 Mar, Livingstone presented the bill; to go to 2R;  27 Mar, committed to Livingstone, Edmonstone'; 5 Apr - Livingstone reported; bill + amendments to be engrossed; 10 Apr,
bill passed 3R. Col Livingston to take to H/L; 11 Apr - HL agree to Argyll roads bill.

Promoters:
Col. Livingstone, Frederick Campbell, Edmonstone

Description:
petition  re the state of Argyll roads, requesting leave to bring in a bill  to enable repairs.


Comment:
Petition to go to committee under LA , Mr Livingstone. 13 Mar, Mr Garden reported. He and Mr Lyon to prepare bill. Nothing further

Promoters:
LA Scotland, Mr Livingstone, Mr Garden, Mr Lyon

Description:
Request for improved water supply,street lighting, paving, cleansing and watching etc.


Comment:
Petition referred to committee headed by Montgomery and Mr Lyon etc; 9 Mar, LA reported ; leave given to bring in a bill;  LA Scotland, Cosmo Gordon to prepare;
 6 Apr, Bill  to go to 2R; 11 Apr, Committed to Mr Dundas, LA Scotland; 4 May
LA reported - Bill to be engrossed; 5 May - bill passed. LA Scotland to take to HL

Promoters:
Montgomery, Mr Lyon, Cosmo Gordon, Mr dundas

Supporters:
James Montgomery, HM advocate for Scotland and other trustees

Description:
Want leave  to bring in a bill to continue the terms of previous act to enable repairs


Description:
Petition from John Bowes, Earl of Strathmore and his wife on behalf of themselves and their infant children. No details


Comment:
R1 6/4/75, R2 7/4/75, then CWH. No further action.


Comment:
No JH No. House agreed to a bill being prepared to give effect to the request. Lord Guernsey and Frederick Campbell to prepare. 9 Mar - Lord Guernsey presented bill on Watt’s patent. To go to 2R; 20 Mar
Counter petition against Watt’s patent. To be considered by the committee after it reports;25 Apr,  an amendment was rejected, bill to be engrossed; passed 3R on 26 Apr, Lord Guernsey to take to HL

Supporters:
Dr Roebuck, Matthew Boulton and Alexander Cumming

Description:
considering petition of James Watt, engineer in the city of Glasgow applying for patent for his steam engine to be extended to 28 years and also to extend to Scotland (previous letters patent applied only to England, wales, Berwick on Tweed 9and the American colonies?)


Comment:
LA, Sir Adam Fergusson, Cosmo Gordon, to prepare; bill presented 20 Mar by LA Scotland ;  28 Apr, CWH chaired by Edmonstone; 1 May - Edmonstone reported;  bill to be engrossed; 4 May, passed 3R. LA to take to HL.

Promoters:
LA, Sir Adam Fergusson, Cosmo Gordon, Edmonstone

Description:
Leave given to bring in a colliers (coalheavers and salters) bill (Scotland) to emancipate (future) serfs


Comment:
No JH ref.  introduced by an Anglo-Scots MP (Drummond);13 Apr (earliest date found)  Mr Strahan reported from committee:favourable response; 25 Apr, bill passed,  to go to HL.

Description:
Bill to lift proscription on name 'McGregor'.


Comment:
Date 1 is earliest found when the measure was sent to 2R stage

Description:
Request for an exchange of land. (see other measures for land consolidation involving forefeited estates)


Comment:
James Dickson, MP for Linlithgow Burghs, 1768-71 (d.1771), merchant and agricultural improver. 1 May
,engrossed bill from HL, to go to 2R; 15 May, Gilbert Elliot reported from the committee; Bill read 3rd tme and passed without amendment. Elliot to take to HL.

Description:
Bill to dispose of Dickson's estates at Ednam


Comment:
8 May,duke of Argyll’s estate bill gets 2R. committed to Frederick Campbell (his son), Mr Lascelles; 16 May
 Campbell reorted from committee; bill passed 3R. Campbell to take to HL


Comment:
Motion almost immediately withdrawn. See JH 116.044 F for next attempt the following day.


Comment:
Introduced by LA Scotland, R1 5/5/75. To go to 2R and to be printed. No further action

Promoters:
LA,  Henry Dundas, Adam Fergusson, Sol.Gen.

Description:
Leave given to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to qualification of freeholders (Scotland) entitled to vote. LA Scotland, Henry Dundas, Adam Fergusson, Sol-Gen to prepare


Comment:
No JH No. Date 1 is earliest found.Mr Jackson reported from committee recommending perpetual copyright to '2 uiniversities'.  Several amendments were agreed;  HL agreed to this without further amendment

Description:
Amendments obviously included an extension of the copyright to the 4 Scottish Universities (+ Eton, Wetminster, Winchester).


Short name:
An act for settling … lands in the Barony of Corsemichael

Comment:
The Act is listed in Private and Local bills and acts (HCPP) and   is listed by JH as an act. RA date unknown. However the Act referred to in the HCPP may refer to the original entail legislation in 1742. The HLJ index merely refers to a bill.

Description:
personal specific act relating to lands in Kirkcudbright, and Wigtown and Galloway


Comment:
This is an unidentified piece of personal Scottish legislation from session 117 (November 1775-Summer 1776)


Comment:
2/11/75, petition introduced by Lord Mountstuart; promoters to prepare; R1, 8/12/75; R2 5/3/76; sent to CWH.  2 Divisions on  14/3/76 and 20/3/76  (67:54, 112:91) Report postponed 20/3/76. No further action. See debates on 5/3/76, divided on national lines. Most promoters spoke. English objections on ground of cost.

Promoters:
Lord Mountstuart, Frederick Campbell, Att-Gen, Sol-Gen, LA, Adam Fergusson, Gilbert Elliot, Mr Pulteney, Dempster, Sir George Suttie, Capt Johnstone, Mr Robinson

Description:
Another attempt to secure a militia for Scotland


Comment:
Agreed,on division, to proceed to a bill  (Suttie and Cosmo Gordon vs  Sergeant Adair, Mr Johnstone); LA Scotland, Suttie, Adam Fergusson, Cosmo Gordon to prepare; R1 1/12/75. No further action

Promoters:
Sir George Suttie, LA Scotland, Adam Fergusson, Cosmo Gordon

Description:
One of several measures to curb the unauthorised shooting of game (Act passed in 1761 re Scotland: JH 101.021)


Promoters:
Dempster, Johnstone, Adam Fergusson, Cosmo Gordon

Description:
want powers and terms of previous legislation extended to meet debts incurred in public expenditure


Comment:
Long history of complicated arrangements; estates described as 'neglected and uncultivated'(ie better if sold); Bill preparation by Adam Fergusson, LA, Sol-Gen, Cosmo Gordon. Walsh (prob a creditor) added at 2R stage. Bill piloted through by Adam Fergusson

Promoters:
Sir Chas Whitworth, Mr Walsh, Sir Adam Fergusson

Supporters:
Creditors of York Buildings Co, also a  supplementary petition

Description:
Petitioners want a bill to expedite the sale of estates (Forfeited) in Scotland for the relief of YBC Creditors.


Comment:
Introduced by Sir George Suttie, R1 13/3/77, R2 17/3/77. sent to committee (Suttie reporter) … returned from HL, 27/5/77, with some amendments to which the HC was asked to agree. No further action.

Description:
To restrain apprentices, tradesmen and other unqualified persons from destroying the game (in Scotland).


Description:
renewing two previous acts, 1721 and 1747


Short name:
Importation and Exportation of Corn (Scotland)

Comment:
Leave given to bring in a bill, 8/4/77. Promoters to prepare R1 16/4/77; R2 28/4/77. CWH postponed 1/5/77. No further action.

Promoters:
Sir Adam Fergusson, LA, Edmonstone, Suttie, Andrew Stuart

Description:
Bill to amend two previous acts (1763 and 1764) insofar as they related to Scotland;


Comment:
2R on 01/04/1778 (first date traced) CWH postponed several times; heard on 8th and 9th Apr. Grey Cooper to take to HL.

Description:
An act for more effectually levying the tax on servants in Scotland


Comment:
Recorded by JH, as relating to Scotland but no further information.

Description:
This is possibly the Act regarding the estates of Sir Lawrence Dundas, which received RA on 15/05/1778


Comment:
Laurie and Pulteney to prepare bill; piloted by Laurie. Date 1 is Laurie's report from committee which prepared the bill.

Description:
Requesting leave to  for bill to allow repair, improvement, maintenance of named roads + convert statute labour to money payment. Roads: Grateney via Lockerbie  to  Moffat to County boundary; Dumfries to Lockerbie to Moffat; Annan via Dunbretton, Kirtlebridge, Springkell, Auchenbedrig to Langholm;


Comment:
Leave given to bring in a bill. Promoters to prepare. No further action.

Promoters:
Pulteney, Sol.Gen., Andrew Stuart, Dempster

Description:
To alter and amend the laws relating to heritable bonds in Scotland.


Comment:
Straightforward process; piloted through by Charles Dundas, Baron Amesbury, MP for Richmond, cousin of Sir Thomas

Supporters:
John Agnew, Praeses of GM of freeholders etc.

Description:
similar to Dumfries petition; want to convert statute labour to money payment


Comment:
5/2, leave given for a bill; Mr Dundas, Edmonstone, Col. Livingstone, Mr Johnstone and Capt. Johnstone to prepare.11/2, presented by Dundas, to go to 2R.  24/3, 2R;   bill committed to Mr Dundas, Mr Edmonstone, etc.  Further protest 14/4; engrossed bill passes at 3R

Promoters:
Mr Dundas, LA, Edmonstone, Col. Livingstone, Mr Johnstone and Capt. Johnstone

Description:
Existing powers insufficient to repair and maintain roads in the county; asking for extended powers.


Comment:
Munro absent but others took over the process. Pet. Sent to  committee under Wemyss and Mr Whitworth; 12/3 Mr Duff added ; 2/4,  Duff presents bill; to go 2R; 6/4, at 2R committted to Duff and Oswald; 15/4 - Edmonstone reported from committee + amendments; 29/4 - Mr Dundas to take to HL.

Promoters:
Mr Wemyss, Mr Whitworth, Duff, Garden,Oswald, Edmonstone, Mr Dundas

Supporters:
Sir Harry Munro (Fowlis) and Henry Davidson of Tulloch

Description:
MP - Major-General Hector Munro (now on service in E. Indies) wants to build and maintain a harbour on S. side of MorayFirth, in his barony of Muirtown (for usual recompense of being able to charge tolls etc).


Comment:
2/3/78,petition introduced by Sir Archibald Edmonstone; R1,  11/3/78; R2, 17/3/78. Sent to  committee under Edmonstone; promoters to prepare and bring in.  R3 passed 24/3/78. No further action. Bill effectively killed of in the HL 5/5/78. Small HL (17) incl Abercorn, Breadalbane, Marchmont

Promoters:
Edmonstone, Mr Dundas, Mr Johnstone, LA, Mr Wemyss, Col. Pringle, Col. Livingstone, Col. Lowrie (Laurie), Mr William Stewart


Comment:
27 Mar. request in HL to bring in a private bill; 7 May, bill passed HC; LA to return to HL.

Description:
Bill to allow judges of CS in Scotland to sell some of the entailed estates of Walter Campbell of Shawfield in Lanarkshire and Argyll to pay off accumulated debts


Comment:
JH reference is simply for a bill dealing with 'Religion, Scotland' which seems to be this Act. 2R held on 8th Feb; committed to Charles Dundas, Mr Dundas etc. 18 Feb, Mr Dundas reported from committee with amendments. Bill was passed and taken to HL on 22 Feb.

Description:
for the better raising and securing a fund for providing for widows and children of Ministers of the Church of Scotland, Principle and Masters of the 4 universities and repealing 2 earlier acts for these purposes.


Description:
possibly the act regarding the militia which made special provision for the Scots Fencibles. Received RA on 03/06/1778


Comment:
No details of passage through the House.

Description:
An act for repairing the  highways and bridges in the county of Linlithgow and Bathgate


Comment:
Petition referred to committee under Sir Gilbert Elliot; 3 Feb. Sir john Paterson presented bill; to go to 2R

Description:
For continuing a previous act and for finishing a bridge across the Tweed


Comment:
Petition referred to Sir Adam Fergusson and William Cunnynghame

Supporters:
Noblemen, gentlemen, heritors and others

Description:
An act for converting into money, statute labour service for the purpose of repairing highways, bridges and ferries in the Stewartry.


Description:
Request to amend terms of previous legislation, including permission to lower certain tolls.


Short name:
Dundas, Sir Lawrence, estates (Scotland)

Comment:
R1 26/3/79, R2, 30/3/79. Referred to Committee under Marchmont. Engrossed 18/5/79. No further action.

Description:
There was an act passed  between Oct 77 and Oct 78 re his English estates. No 84 in table of contents for Private Bills of that session. RA recorded for a similar  bill on 15/05/1778


Comment:
Introduced by Col. Murray, R1 28/2/80. No further action

Description:
Another attemtpt by Athol to secure further compensation from the Crown


Comment:
Petition presented 24/01/1781. RA assent recorded in HLJ.

Description:
Deanburn Bridge (Dumfries?),to Greenlaw, then part of Jedburgh Road, by Lauder to CornhillLauder  to Cornhill (Berwickshire), + Bridge over Tweed at Coldstream. Reqest,  to have  powers given in previous Act of 1760 enlarged and extended. Money needed to repay debtds and for ongoing repairs and widening.


Comment:
Traceable via HLJ. Labelled as 'Borrowstounness roads bill'. Sent to committee in HL on 5 Mar, passed HL on 8 Mar.

Description:
Bo'ness to Torphichen, Bathgate, Briech water, Whiteburn to confines of county near Hollhouseburn.


Comment:
introduced by Col. Murray passed HC after CWH chaired byr Sir Gilbert Elliot; sent to  HL 30/5/81; report by Lord Sandys, from CWH, 26/6/81. No further action

Promoters:
Col. Murray, Sir Gilbert Elliot, Lord Sandys


Comment:
Petition presented on 6 Feb; 5 Mar, Hunter Blair reported from the committee. Bill to be engrossed.

Description:
A follow-up to the collapse of the Ayr Bank, dealing with the redemption of annuities.


Comment:
Marquis of Graham given leave to introduce a bill on 19 June. Sir Gilbert Elliot chaired the debate on the bill.

Description:
The act repealed the parts of the Disarming Act which prohibited  the wearing  of highland dress.


Comment:
Petition sent to committee under Hunter Blair and LA. Obviously controversial. Petition from the Trades sent to the committee in March followed by grant of powers (in April) to send for people and records along with an instruction that original petitioners were to be heard along with the objectors. 8 May, Hunter Blair reported from the committee, including several amendments.

Opposition:
Convenery of Trades in the city of Efinburgh

Description:
Request to re-site the city slaughterhouses away from the North Loch which is now virtually in the centre of the city.


Short name:
Laws respecting Debtors and Creditors (Scotland)

Comment:
Introduced by LA Scotland, R1 8/5/82, R2, 16/5/82. Sent to Committee. No further action.

Description:
The measure was re-introduced early the following session, and passed


Comment:
Introduced by Marquis of Graham. R1, 27/5/82, R2, 16/5/82, Sent to CWH. Postponed. 1 division (41:37), 10/6/82. No further action.

Description:
Another of the periodic attempts to secure a national militia for Scotland


Comment:
R1 12/3/83, R2 18/3/83. Sent to Committee.  Lord Scarsdale reported on 14/4/83. No further action.

Description:
a bill for ratifying various agreements between Atholl and clergy on the Isle of Man.


Comment:
28 May, Dempster reported from the (British) select committee. CWH, chaired by Pulteney. Pulteney, Dempster and the Marquis of Graham were to prepare the Scots bill.[Mitchison credits Sir John Sinclair with the bill 'Agricultural Sir John', p43]. Dempster also secured another bill to prevent the exportation of corn and grain with a Bounty during the operation of the other acts (RA, 15/07/1782)

Description:
This was a separate measure for Scotland, arising from a select committee of about 30 considering widespread concern about the high price of corn after poor harvest of 1782. Committee included Dempster, LA, Hunter Blair, Adam Fergusson and Lord Maitland. Scots measure recommended the importation of corn for 4 months into named counties – Perthshire, Kincardine, Aberdeen, Inverness, Ross, Nairn, Cromarty, Argyll, Forfar, Banff, Sutherland, Caithness, Elgin, Dunbarton, Orkney and Zetland; also commirssioners of land tax to be enabled to levy a sum not exceeding £14 scots on every £100 scots for purposes of relief.


Comment:
No Scottish measure  passed during the 1783 session has been found to match this Act.


Supporters:
Provost, Magistragtes, Town Council  of Glasgow

Description:
bill to extend the boundaries of the City (same as earlier Edinburgh New Town situation)


Comment:
Nothing recorded beyond initial petition

Description:
Want authority to increase tolls and duties on two bridges already built (Stockwell and Jamaica) to enable a return on investments made.


Comment:
LA and Lord Maitland to prepare bill. Introduced by LA Scotland, R1 21/2/83. No further action.

Description:
for rendering … more effectual the Statute Work within the shire of Edinburgh by allowing conversion of statute labour to monetary payment.


Comment:
Referred to a committee. No further action

Description:
to continue act of 1751 (improving harbour etc)


Comment:
Leave given to bring in a bill. LA and Mr Pulteney to prepre. 9 Apr, LA presented bill to house; to go to 2R; 8 May,committed to LA and Maitland. 21May, LA reported  on  bill + amendments; engrossed.22 May,  passed HC. Passed HL, 30 May, without amendment. No further action.

Description:
For regulating the proceedings of the Court of Justiciary and circuit courts in Scotland


Comment:
No traceable JH Ref. To lie on the table.
No further action

Description:
Complaining of lack of representation in Parliament (in common with other burghs in Scotland) due to closed corporations electing themselves and the MP. Looking for redress


Comment:
Mr Ord reported from CWH on 8/7/1783. Passed by HL without amendment.

Description:
Duties on 'Smalts' in Scotland: for repealing bill of 1781… and granting relief to owners ..in Scotland… for tobacco that will not be worth the duties imposed..


Comment:
Petition referred to Cunnynghame and Dempster.  Cunnynghame reported from committee examining petition on 14/11, that it did not fall within the SO of Parlt, not being proposed to extend the navigation beyond act of [1768] nor to raise further sums via tolls or duties. Leave to bring in a bill nevertheless. 4/12/83 Committee to include a clause permitting Proprietors to borrow upon the credit of the tolls

Supporters:
Duke of Hamilton, Earl of Hopetoun, Chas Hope Weir et alia (Props of Bo'ness canal Co)

Description:
Want further fund-raising powers to complete the canal.


Comment:
Henry Dundas presented the bill, 16/2/84.

Description:
want authorisation to borrow additional sums + powers to convert statute labour to monetary payment (See previous failed attempt).


Comment:
Committee led by Henry Dundas and Lord Maitland 27/2.  List of  BoS subscribers ordered. No further action.

Description:
request for a bill authorising raising of further capital


Comment:
Meeting of schoolmasters held in Edinburgh in Sep 1783  led to a petition.  R1 16/2/84.To go to 2R. Henry Dundas presented the bill.  No further action

Supporters:
John Wilson et al, on behalf of Masters of Parish Schools in Scotland

Description:
For increasing the provision of parish schools and increasing the salaries of schoolmasters


Comment:
Petition referred to a committee. No further action.

Description:
Need more resources to repair and maintain Perthshire roads.


Comment:
JH 125.059  F. introduced by Lord Maitland, R1 18/2/84, R2, 27/2/84; > c/w/h. Reporter Anstruther; passedR3 11/3/84; > H/L, passed 2R, > c/w/h, ?? 23/3/84. No further action.

Description:
Scots Protestants living in England want to be able to take the oath as administered in scotland (different format in england)


Comment:
F. (Not listed in JH)Petition initially to lie on the table.Read again 24/3 - to lie on the table.[Next session - Hunter Blair and LA to prepare bill. 14/6 - Hunter Blair presente the bill; to go to 2R. 18/6 - 2R, to go to cwh, 28/6 - Sinclair reported, bill to be engrossed; bill passes HC 930/6 Hunter B to takw to HL  and HL (8/7). RA 916/7/1784) refers to Great Britain

Description:
Imported  Corn. To alleviate penalties on importers caused by circs outwith their control; they imported corn under bills of previous year - delayed, now having to meet costs of duty later re-imposed


Comment:
no JH No. Probably not leading directly to legislation. Large c'tee -  Hunter Blair, Dempster, Maitland, Marquis of Graham, Cunnynghame, Stuart, Mr Dundas, Lord Cockburne (sic) + >32[ rest English]. 12/3 - previous report from c'tee of 31/5 1782 to be made available to this c'tee. 17/3 - Hunter Blair reported from c'tee, requesting leave to bring in a bill to lay down the limits of the various firths to distinguish them from open sea (SB - prob. For fiscal purposes)18/3 leave given > Hunter Blair, Edmonstone, Keith Stewart, Mr Sinclair

Description:
C'tee apptd to enquire into and consider the limits of the navigable rivers and firths of … Scotland and report thereon


Comment:
No JH No.(125) Petition referred to an existing committee.

Supporters:
Corn Distillers in Scotland (Stein, Haig etc)

Description:
they carry on legitimate business, but hampered by amount of smuggling and high duties - want lower duties.


Short name:
Reform of Entail (Improvement of lands, Scotland)

Comment:
12 March 1770
12 March, bill presented by LA; 1 May  report by Frederick Campbell on committee amendments; bill heavily amended in HL before passing at end of session

Description:
This is the entail bill which was finally enacted.


Comment:
Introduced by Sir Alexander Gilmour, R1 7/3/71, 2R 14/3/71. went to select committee under Gilmour. Sent to HL 8/5/1771.  No further action.


Comment:
Read, then left to lie on table. No further action traced.

Description:
Long petition detailing outrages they had suffered at the hands of the populace and requesting protection. Probably resulting from the riots caused by proposals to suspend penalties against Catholics.


Comment:
No JH ref. traced. 1 Apr. LA presented the bill; 21 Apr. to go to CWH, chaired by Dempster, who reported on 29 Apr.  30 Apr. LA to take to HL.

Description:
Motion to amend previous acts to alter terms of Martinmas and Candlemas.


Comment:
No JH ref. traced for this bill, only for failed measure the previous session. New attempt made 6 Dec. 1782. Dempsetr and Hunter Blair to prepare the bill; 11 Dec, LA presentes the bill; 2R heldon 27 Jan, 1783 when it was committed to LA and sir Adam Fergusson;


