The Assembly hereby resolve that Stations which have a Session duly elected and constituted from among their own Membership shall be entitled to send a Representative Elder to the Presbytery and Synod of the bounds, it being understood that this shall not affect the representation of Presbyteries in the …
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The Assembly grant leave to Synods and Presbyteries, if they shall see fit, after due notice given at a previous Meeting, to select one or more places within their bounds other than their usual place of Meeting, at which their ordinary Meetings may from time to time be held; …
The General Assembly declare that it is a fundamental principle of this Church that the pastoral care and the whole administration of ordinances and Congregational work of every several charge are under the inspection and superintendence of the Presbytery of the bounds ; that it is the right and …
THE General Assembly, with consent of a majority of Presbyteries, enact and ordain that, in every case of a newly sanctioned charge in which a Minister has been ordained, and a Kirk-Session constituted by an election of ruling elders, according to the law of the Church, at a time …
The General Assembly hereby find and declare that Commissions from Kirk-Sessions may be sustained at pro re nata and at in hunc effectum meetings of Presbyteries, and farther appoint that, when a pro re nata meeting is called between the meeting of Synod and the first ordinary meeting of …
The General Assembly, with consent of a majority of Presbyteries hereby enact and ordain, That hereafter, when from any cause shall happen that there is no day fixed for the next ordinary meeting of a Presbytery, it shall be competent for any three or more of its members to …
The General Assembly appoint the following to be the title and form of Minute in the circumstances referred to in Act II. Assembly 1865, viz.:— “Minute of Meeting of two Ministers and one or more Ruling Elders having valid Commissions which they are prepared to produce. At , …
The General Assembly find, That when at the time and in the place appointed for a meeting of Presbytery, two Ministers and one or more Ruling Elders, duly elected to represent a Kirk-Session or Kirk-Sessions, have convened together, there is a valid meeting of Presbytery; find that the production …
The General Assembly, with consent of a majority of Presbyteries, Enact and Ordain— That hereafter, all Presbyteries having any number of charges exactly divisible by three, shall return exactly one-third of the number of their ministers, and the same number of elders, to represent them in the Assembly. That …
THE General Assembly enact and declare,- 1. That the Presbyteries of this Church consist of all the Pastors of Congregations, Colleagues and Successors being included ; of the Professors of Theology when there are any within their bounds ;’ of such ordained Ministers within their bounds and not having …