"(1) The General Exchequer Contributions shall be apportioned amongst the several counties and large burghs in manner hereinafter following, that is to say:—

1. (a) during the first four fixed grant periods there shall out of the General Exchequer Contribution for each year be allocated to each county or large burgh an amount equal to the appropriate percentage of the losses on account of rates and grants of the county or burgh;
2. (b) during the first four fixed grant periods the residue, and thereafter the whole, of the General Exchequer Contribution shall each year be apportioned amongst the several counties and large burghs in proportion to their weighted populations.

(2) The amount apportioned under this section to a county shall be called 'the county apportionment' and the amount so apportioned to a large burgh shall be called 'the burgh apportionment'."

This Amendment raises a question of Privilege.

Motion made, and Question, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment," put, and agreed to.—[Sir J. Gilmour.]

I will cause a special entry to be made in the Journals of the House with reference to this Amendment.

Subsequent Lords Amendments, to page 67, line 7, agreed to.