118 RECORDS OF THE BURGH OF LOCHMABEN. 
and they, being present, accepted of the same and gave their 
oaths de fideli in common form, appointment to be during our 
pleasure. 
The salary of 6s 8d, above referred to, is still paid to the 
burgh officer, who, however, is remunerated for other duties, 
and that amount until recent years was also the fixed salary of 
the Town Clerk. 
The ancient ceremony of Riding the Marches, referred to in 
minute of meeting of 13th October, 1732, was in 1799 again 
revived, the Provost at a meeting held on 30th July in that year 
having brought the subject before the Council. The minute 
runs as follows: “The Provost represented that in former years 
it was the practice of the burgh that the Magistrates, Council, 
and community should ride the marches, as described in the 
Charter of the Burgh, and that as this practice had been omitted 
for some years it would be highly expedient to bring it again into 
use, in order that the present Magistrates, Council, and com- 
munity should know and be acquainted with the marches and 
boundaries of the Royalty, the more especially as there are several 
old persons now living who have seen the marches rode in former 
years, and who are thereby well acquainted with the same. He 
therefore moved that a day should be appointed, and public 
notice given thereof, and the motion having been unanimously 
-approved of, they appointed Friday, 9th August, 1799, for 
perambulating and riding the marches and territories of the burgh 
as described in the Charter, and the inhabitants and all persons 
who have any interest therein were invited to attend after due 
notice had been given by the Provost. 
On the day appointed over 60 persons attended, and they 
perambulated the ancient marches and boundaries of the territories 
of the burgh, and a copy of the Charter granted by King James 
the Sixth was read publicly by the Town Clerk at the different 
places described therein as the boundaries of the burgh, and no 
person having appeared to obstruct or dispute any part of the 
boundaries so perambulated pointed out by the persons present 
and described in the Charter, the Provost took instruments 
thereupon in the hands of the Clerk. 
On 16th March, 1802.—At a meeting, held on this date, it 
was enacted that no person shall carry on any public trade or 
merchandising or any business in the way of traffic until he or she 
