108 RECORDS OF THE BuRGH OF LOCHMABEN. 
heritor within the Burgh shall set any house to any persons what- 
somever without first they advise the magistrates that they may 
know the character of the persons, and that under the penalty of 
four pounds Scots for each failure, and that each heritor shall 
enact themselves that any such houses shall in no manner of way 
be hurtful or burdensome to the burgh, and it is likewise hereby 
enacted that no persons whatsomever that shall happen to come 
and reside within the Burgh shall exercise any employment or 
trade within the same without first applying to the Magistrates for 
their freedom under the pains contained in the Act of Burghs, and 
practised by the burghs, and the Burgh Officer is hereby ordered 
to make out a list betwixt now and the next meeting of the Council 
of those persons in the Burgh that have exercised their employ- 
ments or trade within these three years past and have not applied 
to the Magistrates, that justice may be done.’’ 
The Common Good of the Burgh in 1730 was so smal] in 
amount that Provost Sir James Johnstone intimated to the Council 
at their annual election meeting that he would pay his own 
expenses in attending the Convention of Royal Burghs as the 
Council’s representative, and at the same time would discharge 
the burgh for all past expenses incurred by his late father in repre- 
senting the burgh. 
In the Charter of the Burgh power is given to hold a market 
weekly on Sunday, along with two free fairs in the year, viz., on 
St. Magdalene’s and St. Michael’s Days, and continuing the same 
for the space of eight days. By minute of meeting of 14th June, 
1731, the Magistrates appointed Bailie Henderson “to get 
printed advertisements for the Saint Magdalene Fair of Loch- 
-maben, to be holden on the last Thursday of July, customs free 
for all horses, sheep, lambs, kye, and merchant ware, and for the 
encouragement of those that bring lambs and get them not sold 
to get liberty for them to be grassed till the Thursday after, being 
Lockerbie market.’? Some of the subscribers to the building of 
the Tolbooth not having paid their subscriptions, the Council, by 
minute on 13th October, 1732, ordained the clerk to make out a 
list from the Town Book of such gentlemen as subscribed, and 
were deficient, and ordained that the deficients be spoke with to 
pay up to the extent of their obligations, and if they declined 
they were to be sued for payment in the jurisdiction wherein they 
lived. On the same date the Council appointed the Burgh 
