14 Feb y 1808

III. No Bill Chamber

Those regulations established, another simplification which if consistency were regarded would be a necessary consequence of those former ones would be the shutting up of that appellate /intermediate/ judicatory which at present intercepts causes in their way from the [...?] Courts of every description to the Inner House of the Court of Session: in a word the shutting up that manufactory of useless factitious delay vexation and expence - the Bill-Chamber.

Appeal under whatsoever name would then go for example from the several Sheriffs Courts all over the kingdom to the Inner House.

If between the immediate single-seated judicatory of Lord Ordinary, and the appellate judicatory of the Inner House there be no need of any intermediate judicatory, as little and can there be between the immediate judicatory of the Sheriff Depute, and the same superordinate appellate judicatory: in specie and individuality the same in both case no reason can be assigned why on either side of the cause, in the [...?] or the Defendants, a litigant should be confined in his course to two stages, at his pleasure.

In the metropolis Edinburgh, different or not in official name and title /rank and salary, the Sheriff in function, and in respect of proximity logical as well as topographical, to the supreme natural judicatory the Sheriff would not be upon the [...?] different from a Lord Ordinary: He would not; and why should he?