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	Scotland - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Scotland, or in Scottish Gaelic, Alba, is a country and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom.
		Scotland took part in a personal union with England in 1603, when the Scottish King James VI also became James I of England.
		This began with the Education Act of 1696 and became compulsory for children from the implementation of the Education Act of 1872 onwards.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Scotland (3503 words)

	Scotland Act 1998 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Scotland Act 1998 is an Act of the (additional info and facts about Parliament of the United Kingdom) Parliament of the United Kingdom at (A borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey) Westminster.
		The Act also sets up mechanisms to allow disputes to be resolved over the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament and the powers of the Scottish Executive, ultimately involving the (additional info and facts about Judicial Committee of the Privy Council) Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
		The Act was amended by the (additional info and facts about Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004) Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 to end the link between the number of MPs at Westminster and the number of MSPs elected on first past the post system.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scotland_act_1998.htm (389 words)

	Local Government In Scotland - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		PRIMARY TARTAN.(campaign to keep clause 28 of the Local Government Act, the founding of the capital of Sierra Leone by English and Scottish abolitionists...
		Governing Scotland : The Invention of Administrative Devolution
		Local Government Etc (Scotland) Act 1994 (Greens Annotated Acts)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /local_government_in_scotland.htm (85 words)

	Encyclopedia: Scotland Act 1998
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		Text of the Act (Her Majesty's Stationery Office site)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Scotland-Act-1998 (222 words)

	Useful dates in British history
		Act of Parliament — burials to be in woollen
		Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706, but see 1783)
		To be buried under this Act normally means that the person buried was a non-conformist; the burial service was performed by a Non-Conformist minister, but in a Church of England church, as the burial was going to take place in the churchyard.
	www.hedleston.info /timeline.html (8839 words)

	Useful dates in British history
		May 29: Oak Apple Day – the birthday of Charles II and the day when he entered London at the Restoration; commanded by Act of Parliament in 1664 to be observed as a day of thanksgiving.
		Longitude Act: prize of £20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
		[Scotland had adopted January as the start of the year in 1600, and some other countries in Europe had adopted the Gregorian calendar as early as 1582]
	www.johnowensmith.co.uk /histdate (11214 words)

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