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THE FRASERS OF PHILORTH, LORDS SALTOUN.
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D r Alex 1 ' Bannerman of Kirkhill.
Admiral Robert Duff of Logie.
Sir William Forbes of Craigievar.
Duncan Forbes Mitchell of Thain-
ston. 25
James Jopp of Cotton.
George Leith of Overhall.
George Skene of Skene.
Co 1 Alex r Leith of Leith-hall.
Sir Robert Burnett of Leys. 30
John Burnett of Elrick.
George Robinson of Gask.
John Gordon Cumine of Pitlurs;. 33
Alex r Irvine of Drum.
William Forbes Leith of Whitehaugh.
Alex r Anderson of Cundacraig.
Alex r Burnett of Kemnay.
D r James Anderson of Moonie.
John Dyce of Tillygreig.
Francis Garden Lord Gardenston.
William Cumine of Pitullie.
. . . Cumine of Auchry.
James Moir of Invernettie.
Alex r Farquharson of Haughton.
. . . Fergusson of Kinmundie.
John Taylor of Portertoun.
Claims refused by the Meeting —
Col 1 Charles Gordon of Shilogreen.
John Byron Gordon of Gight.
. . . Maitland of Pitrichie.
" Electors present,
For Skene — Real,
Nominal, .
For Pitfour-
-Real,
ISTominal,
114
33
29
— 62
34
18
— 52
10.'
25
30
34
Majority for Skene,
In the year 1786, Lord Saltoun's attention was called to the practice of
the Dutch and other foreign fishing vessels pursuing their occupation in
British waters, a practice which probably affected the interests of the inhabi-
tants of his town of Fraserburgh, in common with the other seaports of the
east coast ; and he had some correspondence upon the subject with the
Treasury, and with Mr. Hunter Blair, then Lord Provost of Edinburgh, from
the latter of whom he received the following reply : —
My Lord, — On receiving the honor of your Lordship's letter of the 15th