IX.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sheriffs

and their deputies, stewards and their deputies, bailies of regalities

and their deputies, magistrates of royal boroughs, and all other

inferior judges and magistrates, and also all high and petty

constables, or other peace-officers of any county, stewartry, city or

town, within that part of _Great Britain_ called _Scotland_, shall have

the same powers and authority for putting this present act in execution

within _Scotland_, as the justices of the peace and other magistrates

aforesaid, respectively have by virtue of this act, within and for the

other parts of this kingdom; and that all and every person and persons

who shall at any time be convicted of any the offences aforementioned,

within that part of _Great Britain_ called _Scotland_, shall for every

such offence incur and suffer the pain of death, and confiscation of

moveables: and also that all prosecutions for repairing the damages of

any church or chapel, or any building for religious worship, or any

dwelling-house, barn, stable or out-house, which shall be demolished or

pulled down in whole or in part, within _Scotland_, by any persons

unlawfully, riotously or tumultuously assembled, shall and may be

recovered by summar action, at the instance of the party aggrieved, his

or her heirs or executors, against the county, stewartry, city or

borough respectively, where such disorders shall happen, the

magistrates being summoned in the ordinary form, and the several

counties and stewartries called by edictal citation at the market-cross

of the head borough of such county or stewartry respectively, and that

in general, without mentioning their names and designations.

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