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HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION
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Whereas it pleased His late Majesty King Edward the Seventh by Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual bearing date the seventh day of February, Nineteen hundred and eight, to the issue of Letters Patent under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and made use of in place of the Great Seal of Scotland, nominating, constituting and appointing Commissioners to make an inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions connected with or illustrative of the contemporary culture, civilization and conditions of life of the people in Scotland from the earliest times to the year 1707, and to specify those which seem most worthy of preservation.

And whereas you the said Sir George Macdonald are Chairman of the said Commission appointed by His late Majority King George the Fifth by Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual bearing date the twenty-seventy of April, Nineteen hundred and thirty-four, you the said Thomas Hastie Bryce are a Member of the said Commission appointed thereto by Letters Patent as aforesaid, you the said Sir Iain Colquhoun, Baronet, Alexander Ormiston Curle, James Curle, James Archibald Morris, and Sir John Maxwell Stirling Maxwell, Baronet, are Members of the said Commission duly appointed thereto by His late Majesty King George the Fifth by Warrants under His Royal Sign Manual and you the said Reginald Francis Joseph Fairlie are a Member of the said Commission appointed thereto by Warrant under Our Royal Sign Manual.

And whereas We have deemed it expedient for the more effectual carrying out of an inventory of the Monuments and Constructions in Our Ancient City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh that some of the Monuments and Constructions of date later than the year 1707 should be therein included.

Now Know ye that Our Will and Pleasure is that in making an inventory of the Monuments and Constructions in Our Ancient City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh you Our said Commissioners shall include such Monuments and Constructions from the year 1707 to the year 1815 as seem to you in your discretion to be worthy of mention therein.

Given at Our Court at Saint James's the first day of December, 1938, in the second Year of Our Reign.

by His Majesty's Command,

JOHN COLVILLE.


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