RECORDS OF THE BURGH OF LOCHMABEN. 119 
shall first become a burgess by purchasing from the Magistrates 
a burgess ticket, at the rates hereafter mentioned, that is to say, 
every person who is the son of a Burgess or married to the 
daughter of a Burgess shall pay the sum of ten shillings and 
sixpence, and every other person shall pay the sum of £1 10s 
sterling, besides sixpence for each ticket for the dues of regis- 
tration, but always reserving liberty to advance the rate of tickets 
as the Council may judge right. 
On 22nd February, 1806.—The Town Council resolved to 
revise the customs of the burgh for the following reasons: Con- 
sidering that the Customs of Burgh have been for a long time 
by-past collected upon the principle that was formerly laid down 
by our predecessors in office, when the value of money at that time 
was of a greater value than now, therefore the said Council, 
being moved with sundry good intentions, and especially with a 
view of advancing the revenue of the burgh and preserving the 
ancient powers granted to it, do hereby resolve to advance the 
rates of customs upon certain commodities, and to continue the 
rates of customs in others. 
1lth November, 1809.—An entry in similar terms to the 
following occurs each year in the minutes recording the rouping 
of the Burgh Customs: Same day the seat in the Church was also 
exposed to roup, when George Burgess in Boglehole was preferred 
at the rent of twelve shillings and sixpence sterling, from 
Martinmas, 1809, till Martinmas, 1810 years 
In explanation of this entry the Town Council in 1731 
agreed to erect a seat or loft in the Parish Church for the accom- 
modation of the Magistrates and Town Council, and the surplus 
seats were let each year to the highest bidder, who by sub-letting 
would no doubt recoup himself for the rent paid by him. 
As evidence of the extent of the pork markets formerly held 
in the burgh, it may be noted that in 1812 the dues arising from 
the weighing of the swine for one year, being put gt to public 
roup, were let for the sum of £2 2s. 
2nd January, 1817.—The meeting, taking into consideration 
the trouble and expense the Bailies have sustained in going to 
Edinburgh by order of the Court of Session to answer for an error 
they committed in delaying for twenty hours in taking the oath 
of Captain James Brown, a pensioner in the Tolbooth, under a 
process of cessio bonorum, the Court having found expenses due 
