THE Lords of His Majesties Privy Council do here­by appoint the Collectors of Shires for the Pole-money, to receive from the Collectors of particular Parishes, all such clipped old Merk-pieces, and their Fractions, as the Parish-Collectors shall deliver to them, the saids Parish-Collectors first giving their Oaths in presence of one of the Commissioners of Supply within the Shires where they are Collectors, that they offer or deliver no other clipped Merk-pieces and their Fractions to the saids Collectors of Shires, but such as were truly received in by them the Parish-Col­lectors, in payment of the Pole-money which they give in to the said Collectors of Shires, and that before the Proclamation discharging the saids Merk-pieces and their Fractions was promulgat in the respective Shires where the Deponents lives: And the Council declares, that no Pole-mo­ney is to be exacted for any persons who died before the Term of Martinmass last, being the first Term appointed for uplift­ing the Pole-money: And the Council do hereby ordain all such diligence to pass at the instance of the Collectors of Shires, against the Collectors of particular Parishes, for giv­ing in of Lists of Poleable persons in their Bounds, and pay­ment of the Pole-money Collected by them, as is allowed to pass, and to be direct against the Poleable persons them­selves. And ordains thir presents to be Printed, and ap­points His Majesties Solicitor to send Printed Copies hereof to the several Collectors of Shires.