§ The Clerk of the Parliaments delivered a certificate of the Clerk of the Crown that the Earl of Leven and Melville had been elected a Representative Peer for Scotland in the room of the Earl of Northesk: Certificate read.
§ The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had received (by post) from the Lord Clerk Register of Scotland,
§ Minutes of the election of the Earl of Leven and Melville as one of the sixteen Peers of Scotland, 10th December last, in room of George John Earl of Northesk, deceased; and
§ Separate Return by, the Lord Clerk Register of certain Titles of Peerage called at the said election, in right of which respectively no vote had been received and counted at any election for fifty years then last past (pursuant to Act 14th and 15th Vict., chap. 87.):
§ Ordered that the said Minutes of Election, &c. be printed. (No. 1.)