ACT, Appointing the Oaths of Allegiance taken for the benefit of the Indemnity to be Transmitted to the Clerks of Privy Council.

THE Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council having received Informa∣tion from their Clerks, that there are brought to their hands at this place, or sent in to them by way of Missive, subscribed by Persons undersigned, and whom they know not: Notes, or Lists of several Persons, said to have taken the benefit of their Majesties Act of In∣demnity, and to have Sworn, and Signed the Oath of Allegiance, in the Terms of the said Act; but that the Oaths with the Original Subscriptions of these Persons in the Terms of the Indemnity are not transmitted to the saids Clerks: And the saids Lords considering how much it does concern their Majesties Interest, and the Security of the Government, that the Persons taking the benefit of the said Act of Indemnity be certainly knowen, and that the Oaths, with the Original Subscriptions signed by them, be in the precise Words of the Oath of Allegiance insert in the Act of Parliament, and that the same be Sworn and Signed before the Persons, and in the express Terms mentioned in the said Act of Indemnity: Therefore the saids Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council, do hereby Require and Ordain the Sheriffs Principals of the several Shires of this Kingdom, their Deputs and Clerks, to transmit to the Clerks of Privy Council, not only the Lists of the Persons who have taken the benefit of the said Indemnity, but likewise the Oaths al∣ready Sworn and Signed by the Takers thereof, with their Original Subscriptions, and that before the Persons, and in the precise Terms mentioned in the said Act, betwixt and the twenty fifth day of January instant, for such as are on this side of the River of Tay, and the tenth day of February next, for those on the other side thereof; and that as they will be Answerable at their highest Perril. And appoints Their Majesties Solicitor timously to Transmit Copies hereof, to the Sheriff-Clerks of the several Shires within this Kingdom. And Ordains these presents to be Printed.