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and speedie lielp shall be imployed at the coast of the owner
of the goods for preservation of the same.
15 x). If incase any of the inhabitants, here being adebted
to any of the staple, shall come to obtaine letters of respyte
of tyme or suretie de corpis or cessio bonorum, these of the
nation shall be favoured and used in the same maner as any
other creditor, induellar in this toun; and if it shall happen,
that any of the staple, adebted to any induellar in this cun-
trie, or ane induellar, adebted to any of the staple, doe come
to faillif in that case it be fund necessar to appoynt a cu
rator over his goods, then shall te magistratts with the Con
servator upon each syde choise a curator or overseer, who shall
joyntly dispose and manadge the whole estate of the pairtie
insolvent.
16 -). For the better secureing of the estate of any of the
Scotts nationthat shall happen to die in this tounethe ma
gistratts is by this article holden to grant and agree unto those
of the Scotts staple-court, that if any of their members hap-
ning to die or depairt this life intestat, without making his
last will and testamentthat then and in that case their goods
and estate shall and most fall under the administration of the
court of the Lord Convervator, in so much that nether the
magistratts nor the orphans-court in this place shall have any
thing to doe with the saids goods or estates of the persons so
dieing or exercise any authoritie thereupon.
17 s). The magistratts doe by this article promise and
consent, that the Conservator or his deputie shall and may
use the prisson of this toun at their pleasure, furnished with
all necessars thereto belongingin which the Conservator or
his deputie shall and may caus to be imprisoned all such deb
tors, offenders and evill-doers of the Scotts nation, which
Vgl. 1612 art. 26: 1668 artt. 35, 42.
2) Vgl. 1612 art. 26; 1668 art. 46.
3) Vgl. 1612 art. 19; 1668 art. 22.
