At Stonehaven , the fifth day of November seventeen hundred years. In
presence of Mr. James Keith, of Auquhorsk. Sheriff-Depute of
Kincardineshire.

The said day, compeared John Weir alias Sutherland, son of the deceased George Weir alias Sutherland, sometimes of Sutherland Bridge Caithness. And enacted, bound, and obliged him , And hereby enacts and obliges him that he shall officiate and discharge the office of common executioner, hangman and scourger, within the Sheriffdom of Kincardine, during all the days of his lifetime, and shall live and behave himself honestly, lealily , and truly, during the space foresaid, He always getting and receiving from the said Sheriff-Depute, a peck of meal, or the price thereof, each week during the said space, with an acknowledgement such as the sherriff pleases for each man that shall happen to be execute and put to death , with a house to live in, and the hangman's croft or the meal thereof in case he do not dwell thereon. Likeas he grants the receipt of a pot, crook, pair bowels, pair of tongs, two chests, Bassie, cap, &c. In like manner the said John Weir obliges to performance of the hail premises under pain of the highest corporal punishment the Sheriff shall inflict upon him, in case of failure.