3. All commissioners from presbyteries, burghs, and universities, ordained to get, under the clerk's hand, an index of the acts, till the acts themselves be extracted, and thereafter to get the full extract of the whole general acts, to be inserted in their presbytery books, whereby all their proceedings may be regulated in time coming; and recommended to every kirk-session to obtain an extract of these acts.-Act Sess. 26, Dec. 20. This innovated by the following acts.

1639. 4. An overture that some commissioners be appointed to visit and peruse the whole acts of General Assemblies, and to mark such acts as are for the use of the kirk in general, and to extract the same out of the registers, to the effect that after they are tried they may be printed, according to the old act of Assembly at Edinburgh, March 7, 1574, Sess. 9, is allowed and remitted to the care of the presbytery of Edinburgh, and they to report to the next Assembly.-Act Sess. 22, Aug. 29, Art. 1.

1645. Recommended to every parish and session to buy the printed acts of the Assembly; and presbyteries are ordained to crave account thereof from all ministers, before their going to provincial assemblies; and appointed, that every provincial assembly crave account from presbyteries in their trials, if every session be so provided, and that they try the diligence of presbyteries and ministers used for that effect.-Act Sess. 18, Feb. 12.

1607. Enacted, That before any General Assembly of this church pass any acts which are to be binding rules and constitutions of the church, these acts be first proposed as overtures to the Assembly; and being passed by them as such, be remitted to the consideration of the several presbyteries of the church, and their opinions and consent reported by their commissioners to the next General Assembly following, who may then pass them into acts, if the general sense of the church, thus procured, agree thereto.-Aat 9.

1700. Enacted, That when any thing of public concern and great weight is proposed to the Assembly, to be passed as overtures or acts, for a standing rule to the church, after the first reading, it be delayed till the

next day of the Assembly's sitting, and lie on the table, to be seen and considered by all the members; and likewise, when any thing is passed as overtures by the Assembly, that all and every presbytery read them publicly in their presbyterial meeting once before the first meeting of the synod next after the Assembly, and consider them; and that this be recorded in their presbytery book, and inquired into by their synods in visiting presbytery books.. And 'tis recommended to all presbyteries to send in an account of their judgment and opinion thereanent, with their commissioners to the Assembly, in writ, but as briefly as may be, and the overtures to be printed after the acts. And 'tis appointed that each minister and kirksession have a copy of all the printed acts of the Assembly; and that inquiry be made into this at presbyterial and synodical censures, and their diligence recorded.Act 16..

1705. Recommended to the several presbyteries and kirk-sessions, who want the acts of former Assemblies, to furnish themselves therewith; and the agent for the kirk is appointed, in all time coming, after every Assembly, as soon as the acts thereof shall be printed, to transmit as many copies of the same to every presbytery within the kingdom as will serve them, and each parish within their bounds; and both presbyteries and sessions are ordained, at their first meeting, after receiving the said acts, to cause read the same, at least so many of them as are of public concern, and which relate to themselves, in order to their observing thereof; and all this to be upon the charges of the several presbyteries and sessions: And synods are enjoined to inquire at presbyteries how this act is observed, and cause mark their diligence thereanent in their books: And the commission is appointed to use their endeavours that this act be made effectual, and duly observed by those concerned.-Act 18.

1736. Enacted, That no acts rescissory of any standing acts of the General Assembly be passed, until such acts rescissory be first transmitted to presbyteries, and their general opinion had for rescinding the same.Act 8.

1773. Act Sess. 18, Feb., 12, Ass. 1645; Act 16, Ass. 1700; and Act 18, Ass. 1705, are revived in Act 7.

1779. Resolved, That the Assembly take two hundred copies of the printed acts annually, viz. one for the moderator, and one for the clerk of each presbytery, one for each synod, and one for each university, and one for the faculty of advocates: And ordered, That the acts be left at the society's hall, and presbyteries and synods send for their copies on or before the 1st day of December annually, certifying if they do not send for them on or before that day, they will be sent by post at their expense. And farther, when they do send for their copies, they shall send a receipt therefor, that the clerks of assembly may have evidence of their being delivered.Act 12.

ADDRESSES.

1698. Address by the Assembly to King William, upon the occasion of the peace concluded at Reswick, betwixt his majesty and his allies, and the French king. -Act 4.

1703. Address by the Assembly to Queen Anne, representing the church's grievances from the extraordinary growth of popery, the disorders of some of the episcopal clergy, and the abounding of immorality and profaneness, and begging redress.-Act 8.

1707. Address by the Assembly to the queen, humbly thanking her for her tender care of this church, and for her gracious answer to the address of their brethren, the distressed and persecuted protestants of France.-Act 18.

1708. Another address, congratulating her majesty upon defeating the late attempt of an invasion from France in favour of the Pretender.-Act 5.

1712. The Assembly address the queen, begging that she would give countenance to such requests as might be laid before her, by their commission, for a redress of the church's grievances, and interpose her royal authority for that end.-Act 18.

1714. The Assembly, in an address, congratulate her majesty upon her recovery from a late indisposition.—

Act 4.

The Assembly, by an address, lay before her majesty the extraordinary growth of popery, and insolence of priests and papists, by avowedly keeping, and resorting to, chapels and mass-meetings, and also the disorders of some of the episcopal clergy. They vindicate themselves from the aspersions of disloyalty cast upon them by those who are disaffected to the protestant succession and church establishment; and they regret the abounding of error and profanity; and humbly entreat for a vigorous execution of the laws against popery and profaneness; and that all practices and attempts against religion and the church establishment might be prevented and punished.-Act 12.

1716. The Assembly, in an address, congratulate his Majesty King George (I.) in most affectionate terms, upon the suppression of the rebellion.—Act 6.

1722. The Assembly present an humble address to the king respecting the growth of popery, with a large memorial of particular instances of the increase of that evil.-Act 6.

1723. The Assembly, in another address, declare their detestation of the execrable conspiracy against the king's person and government, approve of an address by the commission, and express their joy that it had pleased God to assist in making a seasonable discovery of the design.-Act 4.

1727. The Assembly address the king, giving him a particular representation of grievances from papists, and the irregular practices of the nonjuror and prelatical clergy. Act 11.

1728. The Assembly, in an humble address to the king (George II.) express their sorrow for the death of the late king; and declare their joy and satisfaction on the present king's quiet and peaceable accession to the throne.-Act 4.

1734. Another address, congratulating the king upon

the marriage of the Princess Royal with his serene highness the Prince of Orange.-Act 4.

1736. Another congratulatory address to his majesty, on occasion of the marriage of the Prince of Wales with her serene highness Augusta of Saxe Gotha.-Act 4.

1736. The commissioners appointed by the General Assembly address the king for a repeal of the act of the 10th of Queen Anne, establishing the right of patrons to present to vacant churches, and a restoration of their privileges mentioned in the act of union.-Act 6.

1741. An address to the king on the success of his arms against the Spaniards; and particularly on the victory at Carthagena.-Act 7.

1744. The Assembly, in an address, testify their abhorrence of the intended invasion of his majesty's kingdoms; declare their loyalty, and their resolution to support his government, the great bulwark, under God, of their religion, law, and liberty.-Act 8.

1746. In another address, the General Assembly declare their detestation of the unnatural rebellion; and congratulate his majesty on the success of his arms over the rebels. Act 5.

1749. The Assembly, in another address, congratu late the king on the return of national tranquillity; they express their regard to his person and government, and testify their satisfaction in the success of his councils and arms, which, through God, secured to them the undisturbed exercise of the best religion, and the full enjoyment of a British constitution.-Act 8.

1750. Another address, congratulating the king on the birth of a prince in his house, the son of their royal highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.-Act 7.

1756. The Assembly address the king on the occasion of his declaring war against France, giving him the assurance of the loyalty of the people of Scotland.-Act 4.

1760. An address in which the General Assembly congratulate the king on the signal successes with which God hath blessed his arms since their last meeting.-Act 4.

1761. The Assembly, in affectionate terms, address his