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Excerpt from Extracts Form the Records: Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, 1677-1711
On 8th July 1696 the Convention resolved, notwithstanding the dissent of several burghs, to become partners to the amount of 3000 in the African and Indian Trade Company, - the Commissioner for Lochmaben, William Menzies, offering that if the dissentient burghs should, previous to lst August thereafter, intimate to him that they were unwilling to pay their proportions of the amount so subscribed, he would undertake to do so on their transferring their particular shares to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.