An Act to authorize the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to make Provision in regard to the Salaries of certain Sheriffs Substitute in Scotland.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty, it was provided that it should be lawful to grant to any salaried Sheriff Substitute then in Office, or his Successor, or to any Sheriff Substitute thereafter to be appointed under the said Act, such Salary as to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury might seem meet, the same not in any Case exceeding one thousand Pounds by the Year and not less than Five hundred Pounds by the Ye...