The General Assembly, recognising the need to revise and update regulations for preparing and storing records electronically, enact and ordain as follows regarding the records of all Church Courts, General Assembly Boards and Committees, and congregational Finance Committees. 1. Recording of Business. All minutes and records which are prepared …
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The General Assembly appoints and enacts that no Act rescissory of any standing Acts of the General Assembly be passed, until such Acts rescissory be first transmitted to the several Presbyteries of this Church, and their general opinion had for rescinding the same. …
The General Assembly appoints that the reasons of dissent against the determination of Church judicatories, in causes brought before them, shall not be entered in the register, but be kept in retentis, to be laid before the Superior judicatories. …
The General Assembly of this National Church, for preventing some mistakes that have happened about appeals, doth hereby appoint, that any appeals made in writing under the appellant’s hand, with the reasons thereof, in presence of the judicatory appealed from, shall be extracted by the appellant in due form …
The Generall Assembly, for clearing the sense of the fifth article of the overtures concerning appeals in the Assembly, 1643, Sess. 2, do declare, that if appellations post latam sententiam be not presented to the judicatory when the sentence is pronounced, the party shall then immediately after the sentence …
The Assembly thinks it necessar, if any member of Presbyteries or Synods shall finde in matters depending before them that the Moderator shall refuse to put any thing of importance to voices; or if they finde any thing carried by plurality of voices to any determination which they conceive …
I. That all bills whatsoever, of particular concernment, whereunto all parties having interest are not cited, should be rejected. II. That all bills be first presented to the inferiour judicatories of the Kirk, who may competently consider of them, and from them be orderly and gradatim brought to the …
The Assembly appointed, That in all time hereafter no appellations should be leaping over either Presbyterie or Synod, but to ascend by degrees as from the KirkSession to the Presbytry, or from the Presbyterie to the Synod, and from the Synod to the Generall Assembly, except it be after …
A. AS TO REPRESENTATION OF PRESBYTERIES That all Commissions, transmitted to the Clerk of Assembly, shall be revised by him, in so far as regards their regularity in point of form, and that the Clerk shall prepare a Report on the subject and submit the same to the Committee …
The General Assembly receive the Overtures from the Synod of North America, the Presbytery of the Western Isles (A), the Presbytery of Glasgow and Argyll, and the Kirk Sessions of Lochs and Knockbain, but do not grant their crave for the following reasons: The Plenary General Assembly was empowered …