up to the next General Assembly a list of all their members, with the dates of their ordination respectively. Vol. I. p. 60.

Accounts. 1800.

On Motion, Ordered, That in all cases where the General Assembly hath ascertained, or shall ascertain, the rate of compensation for services or business done, or to be done, by any person employed by them, the treasurer of the corporation shall be authorized to pay the same, on a fair account of such service or business done being first presented to the stated clerk of the General Assembly and allowed by him, and then exhibited to said treasurer for payment.—Vol. I. p. 234.

1819.

Resolvod, That the Stated Clerk be authorized and directed to liquidate all accounts for printing done by order of the Assembly; and also for transmitting the printed extracts from the minutes of the Assembly to the places of their destination.-Vol. IV.

It is the duty of the Stated Clerk to insert the abstract of the Presbyterial reports in the COMPENDIOUS VIEW.

See Vol. II. p. 220, 269, 276.—Vol. III. p. 20, 120.

It is the duty of the Stated Clerk to publish an1813. nually the names of the ministers appointed by the Assembly to certify the character of travelling preachers.-Vol. III. p. 121.

His name and

Resolved, That in addition to the existing regulations on the subject, the name of the residence. Stated Clerk, and the place of his residence, be printed on the copy of the ex

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tracts to be forwarded by mail; and that the Presbyteries hereafter, or any member of Presbytery, give notice to the Stated Clerk, of the conveyance by which their other extracts are to be forwarded.Vol. II. p. 252.

Resolved, That the Board of Missions be authorized always to insert their Missionary appointments in the appendix to the printed extracts.Vol. III. p. 321.

1817.

The Stated Clerk was authorized to engage a person to print the extracts which are to be made from the minutes for printing; and also to appoint an agent to forward the extracts to the several Presbyteries.-Vol. III. p. 330.

Sect. 3. OF THE TEMPORARY CLERK.

1802.

Resolved, That a Temporary Clerk be chosen by each Assembly as heretofore, to read Duties. the minutes and communications to the Assembly, and otherwise aid the permanent clerk as occasion may require; and that he be paid one dollar per day for his services.-Vol. I. p. 274. Resolved, That hereafter the Temporary Clerk

shall receive no pecuniary compensation for 1806. his services.-Vol. II. p. 191.

Sect. 4. OF THE TREASURER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

On Motion, Ordered, That in all cases where the General Assembly hath ascertained, or Duties. shall ascertain the rate of compensation for services or business done, or to be done, by

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any person employed by them, the Treasurer of the corporation shall be authorized to pay the same, on a fair account of such service or business done being first presented to the stated clerk of the General Assembly and allowed by him, and then exhibited to the said treasurer for payment: and it was also recommended to the treasurer of the corporation, as soon as may be after the rising of the Assembly, to review their minutes, and to take therefrom an account of all the appropriations of money that they may have made. Vol. I. page 235.

Exhibition of

An exact state of the accounts of the trustees, is to be exhibited by their treasurer to the bis Accounts, General Assembly, once in every year, 1801. Whereupon it is recommended; That

this state of the accounts, be laid before the General Assembly, as early in their sessions as possible, in order that the General Assembly may know what appropriations it may be in their power to make, or what instructions to give to their trustees, respecting the monies in hand. Vol. I. p. 270.

Resolved, That it is hereby enjoined on all persons, holding money belonging to, or col1809. lected for, the Assembly, to pay the same only to the Treasurer of the Trustees; and it is also enjoined on all persons to whom money may be due from the Assembly, if they do not personally apply for it, to give their written orders authorizing some one to receive the money for them.Vol. II. p. 289.

PART II.

OF THE SYNODS.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SYNODS.

Sect. 1. Extracts from the Records of the late Synod of New York and Philadelphia.

YOUR committe beg leave further to report, that

1786. they conceive it will be most conducive to the interest of religion, that this Synod be divided into four Synods; and therefore submit to the Synod the following plan for dividing the Synod of New York and Philadelphia, into four distinct Synods, subordinate to a General Assembly to be constituted out of the whole.

1st. That one of the said Synods shall consist of the Presbyteries of Duchess County, Suffolk, New York, and New Brunswick; to be known by the name of THE SYNOD OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY.

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2nd. That another Synod shall consist of the Presbyteries of Philadelphia, Lewis Town, New Castle, Baltimore, and Carlisle; to be known by the name of THE SYNOD OF PHILADELPHIA.

3d. That another Synod shall consist of the Presbyteries of Redstone, Hanover, Lexington, and Transylvania; to be known by the name of THE SYNOD OF VIRGINIA.

4th. That another Synod shall consist of the Presbyteries of Abingdon, Orange, and South Carolina; to be known by the name of THE SYNOD OF THE CAROLINAS.

5th. That out of the body of these Synods, A GENERAL ASSEMBLY shall be constituted in the following manner; viz. That every Presbytery shall, at their last stated meeting preceding the meeting of the General Assembly, depute to the General Assembly, Commissioners, in the following proportion:-Each Presbytery consisting of not more than six Ministers, shall send one Minister and one Elder; each Presbytery consisting of more than six Ministers, and not more than twelve, shall send two Ministers and two Elders; and so in the same proportion for every six Ministers: and these Commissioners, or any fourteen of them, whereof seven to be Ministers, being met on the day and at the place appointed, shall be competent to enter upon business. And the Judicatory thus constituted shall bear the style and title of THE GENERAL AsSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.-Page 407.

Resolved unanimously, That the Synod be di

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vided; and it is hereby divided into four Synods, agreeably to an act made and provided for that purpose in the sessions of Synod, in