§ Notwithstanding anything in the provisions of this Act the contribution towards expenditure for the administration of the police apportioned and allocated to any burgh which is supplied with constables by the county shall not be paid by the town council of such burgh out of any rate to
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which such contribution or such expenditure would not have been chargeable if this Act had not passed.—[The Lord Advocate.]
§ Brought up, and read the First and Second time.