Westminster, June 7, 1648.
direct
To the Right Honourable, Right Reverend, the Generall Assembly of the Church of Scotland, or their Commissioners.
Iuly 15. Ante Meridiem. Sess. IV.
Act concerning Commissions from Burghs.
IT is resolved by the Generall Assembly, untill the matter concerning Commissioners from Burghs be further thought upon, That in the mean time according to the ordinary practise no Commission to the Generall Assembly be admitted from Burghs, but such as shall be consented to, and approven by the Ministry and Sessions thereof; the persons elected being always Elders.
Iuly 18, 1648. Ante Meridiem. Sess. VI.
Act concerning the examining of the proceedings of the Commissioners of Assemblies.
THE Generall Assembly renews and revives the Act of the Assembly holden at Bruntiland Anno 1601, concerning the examination of the proceedings of the Commission of the Generall Assembly, tenour whereof follows. “The Assembly hath Ordained that in every Assembly to be conveened in all time coming such as shall happen to be appointid Commissioners from the Generall Assembly, to endure while the Assembly next thereafter, shall give an account of their proceedings during the whole time of their Commission in the beginning of the Assembly, before any other cause or matter be handled, and their proceedings to be allowed or disallowed as the Assembly shall think expedient.”