FOrasmuch as by Proclamation of the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council of the date the 9th December 1697 , All the Leidges are Required and Commanded to Pass and Receive in Payments of all Sorts the Fourty-Penny-Pieces , of the Coyn and Mint of this Kingdom , at three shilling six pennies Scots Money , how Bare soever and worne by Use the samen be , if the Print and Vestige of the Coyn of this Kingdom be visible upon them , and thereby , discharged any of the Leidges to refuse the saids Scots Fourty-penny-pieces at the Rate of three shilling six pennies , under the pain of being lyable to pay the double of what they refuse to the Party who offered the same to be decerned immediatly without any Process , and exacted from the Refuser by any Magistrat within this Kingdom , in favours and to the behove of them from whom any of the saids Fourty-penny-pieces are refused : And the Lord Provost , Baillies and Council of this City being resolved to see the said Act of Privy Council inviolably observed within the samen , and Priviledges thereof . These are therefore , In His Majesties Name and Authority , and in Name and Authority of the Right Honourable the Lord Provost , Baillies and Council of this City , Commanding & Requiring all His Majesties Liedges within the samen , and Priviledges thereof , to Pass and Receive in payments of all Sorts the saids Fourty-pennie-pieces at the rate foresaid , in the Terms and under the pains contained in the foresaid proclamation . And ordains thir presents to be published as use is , and printed , that none may pretend Ignorance .