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Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance". Similar provisions existed elsewhere in the
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The bill's long title was "An Act for settling the
Militia of that Part of Great Britain called Scotland". Its object was to arm the Scottish militia, which had not been recreated at the
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On 11 Mar. 1708, when the Queen attended the Lords to give assent to several bills, she used her prerogative of veto against one, the bill for settling the
Scottish militia.
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