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[1744] 2 Elchies 126      

Subject_1 COMMISSIONERS OF SUPPLY.

Town of Kirkwall
v.
Inhabitants of Stromness

Date: 17 February 1744
Case No. No. 4.

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A Burgh Royal cannot lay any part of its supply upon a village, (Stromness being at 12 miles distance,) not within its jurisdiction, nor having no dependance on it, however long that practice has continued; nor even upon persons living in that village who were Burgesses in that Burgh, if they now had no trade in it.—Thereafter, found Kirkwall not liable in expenses; when Arniston doubted of the former interlocutor, because of the articles of union.

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