he Universities pure, and provoking the Professors of
Divinitie to great diligence, each Professor in the Universities of this
Church and Kingdom, bring with him or send with the Commissioner who comes
to the General Assembly, ane perfit and well written copie of his
Dictates, to be revised by the General Assembly, or such as they shall
appoint for that work ilk year.

_The Assembly continues the determination of a constant and
perpetuall order herein untill the next Assembly, but in the mean
time desires the professors of Divinity to present to the next
Assembly their Dictates of Divinity whereof the professors present
are to give intimation to the professors absent._

VI. The great burdens Intrants undergoes when they enter the Ministery,
which holds many of them long at under, would crave the Assemblies
judgement and authority, that Ministers Manses and Stipends may be all
made free to the Intrant.

_The Assembly refers and recommends to the Commissioners for
publike affairs to seek redresse in this matter from the Honorable
Houses of Parliament, and to consider of some fitting Overtures to
be presented to their Honours for that effect._

_Renovation of the Commission for the publike affairs of the Kirk._

The Generall Assembly taking to their consideration that in respect the
great work of Uniformity in Religion in all his Majesties Dominions is not
yet perfited, (though by the Lords blessing there is a good progresse made
in the same) there is a necessity of renewing the Commissions granted
formerly for prosecuting and perfiting that great work, doe therefore
renew the power and Commission granted for the publike affairs of the Kirk
by the Generall Assemblies held in _S. Andrews_ in the year 1642. and in
_Edinburgh_ 1643. 1644. and 1645. unto the persons following, _viz._
Masters _Alexander Henderson, Robert Douglas, Willliam Colvil, William
Bennet, George Gillespie, John Oswald, John Adamson, William Dalgleish,
David Calderwood, James Fleeming, Robert Ker, John Dalyell, James Wright,
__ John Knox, Adam Penman, Robert Lightoun, Alexander Dickeson, Patrick
Fleeming, John Hay, Richard Dickeson, Thomas Vasse, David Drummund,
Alexander Somervill, Robert Eliot, Robert Blair, James Bruce, Robert
Traile, Samuel Rutherfurd, Alexander Colvall, Walter Greg, Alexander
Balfour, George Thomson, John Mencreiff, John Smith, Patrick Gillespie,
John Duncan, James Sibbald, Alexande