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Act of Council respecting the mode of electing additional Baillies.

"At Glasgow, the second day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and one. Which day, the Magistrates and Council of the City of Glasgow being in Council assembled, the Committee, appointed to consider the form of electing two additional Baillies, conformable to the Act of Convention of the Royal Burghs of the sixteenth of July last, gave in a report, the tenor whereof follows: Report of the Committee of Council, appointed to consider the form of electing the two additional Baillies whom the Magistrates and Town Council of Glasgow were empowered to chuse by the Act of the Convention of Royal Burghs, dated the sixteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and one, and entered upon the Records of the Town Council of Glasgow, upon the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and one, after having considered the former Set of the Burgh and the Act of Convention before-mentioned, the Committee are of opinion, that the mode of electing the two additional Baillies which will the least encroach on the former Set, which will run the least risque of creating confusion, and which will be the most easily carried into execution, will be for the Magistrates and Council, First, to elect (the) two Merchant Baillies and one Trades Baillie, exactly in the same manner and conformable to the regulations which have been practised under the former Set of the Burgh, the leets for which will require no alteration whatever at the election 1801, as none of the Baillies for the preceding year are to be re-elected, although at all annual elections, subsequent to 1801, the Baillies of the immediate preceding year ought to be leeted in chusing the two eldest Merchant Baillies, and the eldest Trades Baillie, because one of them of each rank may be re-elected for the subsequent year, who must, in that case, be the eldest Baillies of their respective ranks. Secondly, to divide and put into two leets the whole Merchant Counsellors, who, by the former

Set, were eligible as Baillies (except the persons just chosen first and second Merchant Baillies, and the Baillies of the preceding year who shall not have been re-elected) to chuse one person from each of these two leets, in the same manner as was done in the election of Merchant Baillies by the former Set, and then to put these two persons upon one short leet to be voted upon, and the person, chosen from that short leet, shall be the youngest or third Merchant Baillie for the subsequent year, under the authority of the said Act of Convention of the Royal Burghs. Thirdly, to divide and put into two leets the whole Trades Counsellors, who, by the former Set, were eligible as Baillies, (except the person just chosen first or eldest Trades Baillie, and the Baillie or Baillies of the preceding year who shall not have been re-elected,) and to chuse one person from each of these two, leets, in the same manner as was done in the election of Trades Baillies by the former Set, and then to put these two persons upon one short leet to be voted upon, and the person, chosen from that short leet, shall be the second or youngest Trades Baillie for the subsequent year, under the authority of the said Act of Convention of the Royal Burghs. The Committee are of opinion, that all intermediate elections of Magistrates and Counsellors, for filling up vacancies, occasioned by death or otherwise, ought to be made according to the manner and regulations of the former Set of the Burgh in all respects. The Committee do further report, that in consequence of the alterations made on the Set of the Burgh, by the said Act of Convention, the number of ordinary Merchant Counsellors will be reduced to twelve, as the thirteenth Counsellor will become a Baillie, and that the number of ordinary Trades Counsellors will be reduced to eleven, as the twelfth Counsellor will also become a Baillie, after the Act of Convention shall begin to take effect. That alteration of the Set will necessarily occasion an alteration of the number of electors of Counsellors at the election of 1801, and at all subsequent annual elections of Counsellors, as, from

the analogy of the former Set, the two persons, chosen additional Baillies at Michaelmas 1801, will fall to be electors for that year; and, in the same manner, the persons chosen additional Baillies at the Michaelmas elections 1802 and 1803, will fall. to be electors of Counsellors for those years, whereby, the electors for 1801 will be increased to fourteen, for 1802 to sixteen, and for 1803 to eighteen, at which number they will afterwards remain, and to which they must be filled up at every annual election, in the same manner and according to the same regulations that the number of electors, by the former Set, was filled up to twelve. If the Magistrates and Council approve of this Report, it will be proper for them to ratify and confirm it by an Act of Council, and to appoint extracts of it and the Act of Council of the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and one, accepting of the foresaid alterations of the Set, to be transmitted to the Clerk of the Convention of Royal Burghs, that they may be recorded in the Books of Convention, and extracts of them deposited in the City's Charter Chest. (Signed) John Hamilton, Convener of the Committee. Which Report, being considered by the Magistrates and Council, they approve thereof, and enact and ordain, that the election of Magistrates and Counsellors therein referred to, at the annual election in this current year eighteen hundred and one, and at all subsequent elections of Magistrates and Counsellors, shall proceed and be carried on in the manner specified in the said Report, and appoint extracts of this Act of Council, and of the Act of the thirty-first day of July last, therein referred to, to be transmitted to the Clerk of the Convention of the Royal Burghs at Edinburgh, to be recorded in the Books of Convention, and extracts thereof to be got and laid up in the City Charter Chest. Extracted from the Records of Council, by (signed) John Orr. the Records of the Convention of the Royal land, by

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"JAMES LAING, Dep. Clk."

Act of Council respecting increasing the Fines for not accepting the Offices of Lord Provost, Baillies, Dean of Guild, DeaconConvener, and Counsellors of the City.

"At Glasgow, the second day of October, eighteen hundred and one years. The which day, the Magistrates and Council of the City of Glasgow being in Council assembled, having resumed consideration of a proposal which is referred to in an Act of Council of the thirty-first day of July last, for increasing the fines upon persons refusing to accept the offices of Lord Provost, Baillies, Dean of Guild, Deacon-Convener, and Counsellors of the City, unanimously enact and ordain, that the fines leviable for such refusal by the Set and Constitution of the Burgh (as explained and amended by an Act of the Magistrates and Town Council, dated the fifteenth day of April, seventeen hundred and forty-eight, and ratified and confirmed by the General Convention of the Royal Burghs) shall, from and after the ensuing election eighteen hundred and one, be doubled, that is to say, each person refusing to accept the offices of Lord Provost, Baillies, Dean of Guild, or Deacon-Convener, shall be liable to the penalty, and shall be fined and amerciated in the sum of eighty pounds sterling; and each person refusing to accept the office of a Counsellor, shall be liable to the penalty, and shall be fined and amerciated in the sum of forty pounds sterling, which fines and penalties shall be levied, exacted, and applied in the same manner as those formerly exigible were levied and applied, under the authority of the said Acts of the Town Council and Convention of the Royal Burghs; and the said additional fines shall be leviable from such persons as may be elected to the said offices at the ensuing annual election for this current year, and at all subsequent elections, who shall refuse to accept of those offices. Extracted from the Records of Council, by "JOHN ORR."

OATHS ADMINISTERED TO THE MAGISTRATES AND THE SEVERAL

MEMBERS OF THE TOWN COUNCIL, ON THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF OFFICE

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Oath of Allegiance.

"I do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George.

"So help me God.”

Oath of Abjuration.

"I do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare, in my conscience, before God and the world, that our Sovereign Lord, King George, is lawful and rightful King of this realm, and all other His Majesty's dominions and countries thereunto belonging. And I do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I do believe, in my conscience, that not any of the descendants of the person who pretended to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James II., and since his decease, pretended to be and took upon himself the style and title of King of England, by the name of James III., or, of Scotland, by the name of James VIII., or the style and title of King of Great Britain, hath any right or title whatsoever to the Crown of this realm, or any other the dominions thereunto belonging. And I do renounce, refuse, and abjure any allegiance or obedience to any of them.

"And I do swear that I will bear faithful and true allegiance to His Majesty King George, and him will defend to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever, which shall be made against his person, crown, or dignity. And I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty and his Successors, all

* These Oaths are also administered to the Ministers of the Established Church, and Professors in the University, at their admission into office.

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