For as much as upon the second day of July one Thousand Six hundred and Ninty, their Majesties and the Estates of Parliament Did, by their Act, for the Reasons therein memtioned Ferm the Excyse of Ferrin-tosh, to Duncan Forbes of Cullodden, and his Successors Heretors thereof, for the yearlie Tack duety of four hundred Merks; which sum, is expressly declared, by the said Act, to be the yearly proportion of annexed Excyse, payable out of the saids Lands, to His Majesties Exche­quer. And now although the said annxed Excyse, be to raised off of the Liquor, and not off of the boll; Yet seing, the quota or value of the said annexed Excyse is still the same, as it was formerly, and so can inferr no ground for alteration of the Act already made in favors of the said Duncan Therefore His Majesty, with Consent of the Estates of Parliament do declare That, by the present Act anent the Excyse upon Liquor, there is no­thing altered, or innovat, of the sett formerly made to the said Dnucan, of the Excyse of his Lands of Ferrintosh; Excepting only that the saids Lands are lyable, to their just proportion, conform to the foresaid sett, of what addi­tionall Excyse is or shall be imposed by Law upon the Kingdom. Ordaining hereby, Any generall Tacks of Excyse, that shall be here after granted by our Thesaury, and Exchiequer, to be with the Exception of the foresaid Act. Extracted forth of the Records of Parliament by George Viscount of Tarbat, Lord Mc. Leod and Castle-haven &c. Clerk to the Parliament, and to His Majesties Exchequer Registers and Rolls