27 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville (4

Resolut. 15

Extracts

My Lord, in the Small Debt Courts (the only Courts in SCotland to which I can present myself to apply the denomination /appellation/ of seats of justice, recognizing in all the others the indisputable title to the appellation of seats of judicature) in the Small Debt Courts (if my expertation[?] be correct) it will be found impossible either to diminish or to abolish or t diminish Extracts, though for a somewhat different reason, viz. that there will be found nothing to extract.

Therefore /Now then/ there being neither Interlocutors, nor defence, nor Summons or Petition to extract when in every one of these suits of truth and honesty Judgment has been given in a demand of debt for so many balls of oats value ,5, it will not enable the author of this[?] part of the Reform to demonstrate the necessity of all these extractions with their reserved et ceteras in a [...?] reach[?] on the like sum for the same number of bills of the same sort of grain in the case where the value of their Bill have happened to rise to high as to ,5:1. Not that should their [...?], instead of less than ,.5.1. they should have cost him ,9.19 a Scotchman, if he be honsetly advised and at the same time master of his temper wil think of demanding for them more than ,5, considering when it is that ,5 is to be had without begging, and when it is the ,9.19 would be to be had, if a man could get it /afford to but it/:

afford to pay for it.