By the King. A proclamation in order to the electing a peer of Scotland. [22 Oct. 1906.]

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BY THE KING.
Ill ORDER TO THE ELECTIHG k PEER OF SGOTUID.
Edward R. & I.
VVHEREAS The Right Honourable Ronald Ruthven, Earl of Leven and Melville
was duly elected and returned to be One of the Sixteen Peers of Scot/and
to sit in the House of Peers in the present Parliament of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and is since deceased: In order to the Electing another
Peer of Scotland to sit in his room, We do, by the advice of Our Privy Council
issue forth this Our Royal Proclamation, strictly charging and commanding all
the Peers of Scotland to assemble and meet at Holyrood House, at Edinburgh
on Thursday, the Eighth day of November One thousand nine hundred and six'
between the hours of Twelve and Two in the Afternoon, to nominate and choose
another Peer of Scotland to sit and vote in the House of Peers in this present
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the room of
the said Ronald Ruthven, Earl of Leven and Melville, deceased, by open Election
and Plurality of Voices of the Peers that jihall be then present, and of the Proxies
of such as shall be absent (such Proxies being Peers and producing a Mandate
in Writing duly signed before Witnesses, and both the Constituent and Proxy
being qualified according to Law); and the Lord Clerk Register, or the Two
Principal Clerks of the Session appointed by him to officiate in his Name, are
hereby respectively required to attend such Meeting, and to administer the Oaths
required by Law to be taken there by the
said Peers, and to take their Votes, and
immediately after such Election made and duly examined to certify the Name of the
Peer so elected, and to sign and attest the same in the presence of the said Peers
the Electors, and return such Certificate into Our High Court of Chancery of Great
Britain: And We strictly charge and command that this Our Royal Proclamation
be duly published at the Market Cross at Edinburgh, and in all the County Towns
of Scotland, Ten Days at least before the Time hereby appointed for the Meeting
of the said Peers to proceed on such Election. S
Given at Our Court at Buckinghg
October, in the Year of our Lord
the Sixth Year of Our Reign.
GOD SAVE
m Palace, this Twenty - second day of
One thousand nine hundred and six, and in
THE KING.