or Keeper on summary complaints at their Inſtance to the Lords of Council and Seſſion.
Regiſter of the Great Seal how to be rendered complete and authoritative;XV. And whereas it is of great Importance that the Record of Writs paſſing under the Great Seal, and which is kept by the Director of Chancery, should be in all reſpects complete, authentic, and authoritative; and that an Act of Sederunt touching that Record was paſſed by the Lords of Council and Seſſion on the Eleventh Day of February One thouſand eight hundred and eight, to which it is expedient to give the Force and Effect of a Public Law; be it enacted, That the Keeper of the Great Seal or his Deputies, inſtead of delivering the ſealed Charters or other Writs to the Perſons by whom theſe have been expede; ſhall forthwith deliver the ſame, together with the Warrants thereof, to the Director of Chancery or his Deputy, by whom, after making the proper Entries of the Sealing in the record, the Writs ſhall be delivered reſpectively to the perſons by whom they ſhall have been expede;and transmitted to the General Regiſter Houſe. and the aforeſaid Warrants ſhall remain in the Poſſeſſion of the Director of Chancery, until the ſame, together with the Regiſter in which the relative Writs have been recorded, ſhall be tranſmitted to His Majeſty's General Regiſter Houſe.
Extracts from Regiſter of Great Seal to be probative.XVI. And be it enacted, That Extracts of Writs from the Regiſter of the Great Seal, of which the Fact and Date of Sealing ſhall have been duly recorded, (ſuch Extracts being certified in due Form by the Keepers of the ſaid Records), ſhall make entire Faith in all Caſes, excepting Caſes of Improbation.
Compenſation to Keepers of Records affected by the Operation of this Act;XVII. And, in order that permanent Compenſation may be made to the Clerks of Royal Burghs and their Succeſſors in Office, and that Compenſation during their reſpective Lives or Continuance in Office, may be made to the Clerks of Burghs of Regality and of Barony, and to the Commiſſaries and Clerks of Commiſſary Courts and other Keepers of Publick Records, for and in reſpect of the Profits and Emoluments of which they will be deprived by the Operation of this Act; be it enacted, That the ſaid ſeveral Perſons having ſuch Claims, and meaning to inſiſt therein,to be aſcertained by Court of Exchequer. ſhall, within Twelve Months after the paſſing of this Act, preſent the ſame to the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, together with the Vouchers and Evidence by which the ſame are meant to be ſupported; and the ſaid Claims, with the Vouchers thereof, ſhall be given out to His Majeſty's Advocate, in order that he may appear and object to the ſame if neceſſary; and the Barons of the Exchequer, after due Enquiry made by them into the Circumſtances of each Caſe, are hereby authorized and required to determine and aſcertain the Amount of the Fees and Emoluments of which the aforeſaid Claimants ſhall have been or may be deprived by the Operation of this Act, and what Sums will form a juſt and reaſonable Compenſation to ſuch Claimants reſpectively, either by annual Payments to the aforeſaid Clerks of Royal Burghs and their Succeſſors in Office, or by Payments in the Groſs, or in Annuities, during their reſpective Lives or Continuance in Office, and no longer, to the ſeveral other aforeſaid Claimants, and ſhall cauſe ſuch Determination to be entered in a Roll or Book to be kept for that Purpoſe; and ſhall report the ſame under their Hands to His Majeſty, His Heirs and Succeſſors, and to both Houſes of Parliament.
