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fifty pounds Scots for a blood and ten pounds money foresaid 

 for a battery committed by him upon John Johnstone, town 

 officer. Item, Harbert Wilkine, fifty pounds for a blood and 

 ten pounds Scots for a battery committed by him upon George 

 M'Leive, in Annan. Item, Christopher Johnstone, son to Adam 

 Johnstone, in Annan, fifty pounds for a blood and ten pounds 

 for a battery committed by him upon John Glover, late servitor 

 to Margrate Wilkine, in Annan. Item, John Davidson, in 

 Seafield, and John Glesters, in Sandhill, each one of them fifty 

 pounds for a blood and ten pounds for a battery committed by 

 each one of them upon one another. Item, the said John 

 Glesters and John Davidson, each one of them in fifty pounds 

 for bloods and ten pounds for batteries committed by each one 

 of them upon another, and all and each one of the said persons 

 decerned to pay the said fines to the procurator-fiscal within term 

 of law under the pain of poinding and imprisonment till payment 

 be made thereof. 



5th August, 1695. — Decerns Janet Smith, in Annan, to pay 

 to the procurator-fiscal the sum of fifty pounds Scots for a blood 

 and ten pounds for a battery committed by her upon Agnes 

 Irving, spouse to Thomas Poll, merchant, of Annan, and one 

 hundred pounds Scots for breaking of the King's free fair, in 

 respect she did it upon the town's fair day. 



Town Clerk an Offender. 



4th June, 1700. — George Blair, town clerk, found guilty of 

 a blood and riot — fined fifty pounds Scots. 



Sanitary Regulations. 



14th March, 1699. — No person living within the burgh is 

 to lav any dunghill upon any part of the town street without 

 their fore doors; and no person to build any turf or peat stacks 

 within any part of the high town street. Enacted that the town 

 be causeyed; that there is great need of a mortcloth, which is 

 to be got; and that the magistrates' seat in the church be 

 repaired. 



No Dealing with Gipsies or "Egyptians." 

 17th March, 1699. — John Irving absolved from William 

 Gibson's unjust libel given in against him and his wife wherein 



