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[1669] Mor 1895      
Subject_1 BURGH ROYAL.
Subject_2 SECT. IV.

Who liable to Burgal Services and Prestations.

Boswall
 v.
Townof Kirkaldy

Date: 1 February 1669
Case No. No 36.

An heritor of burgh lands not residing within the burgh, was found not liable to the stent for the second minister's stipend, nor for the charges of sending commissioners to the Convention.

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John Boswall being stented by the town of Kirkaldy for some tenements and acres, to pay a proportional part of a second minister's stipend; as likewise of the charges of the Commissioners of that burgh to the Convention of burghs.

——The Lords found, That he could not be liable at all to the charges for keeping the Convention of burghs, neither for any part of the second minister's stipend, unless the town could prove, that to his knowledge he or his tenants had paid the same yearly past memory of man.

 Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 117. Gosford, MS. p. 99.

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