xamination of the Provinciall books to each Generall
Assembly.

August 9. 1648. _Antemeridiem_ Sess. 25.

_Act for dis-joyning the Presbyteries of_ Zetland, _from the Provinciall
Synod of_ Orkney _and_ Cathnes.

The Generall Assembly now after exact tryall, finding that the Presbytery
of _Zetland_ cannot meet with the Provinciall of _Cathnes_ and _Orknay_ to
which it was adjoyned by an Act of the Assembly 1646. Sess. 11. And that
the allowance and dispensation granted in the preceding Assembly for the
halfe of their number to keep the meetings of the said Provinciall cannot
be observed in respect of the great distance of that Isle by sea from the
land, and the dangerousness of the seas there, and of the passage through
them, Therefore after hearing the parties interested and serious
deliberation of the matter, The Assembly doth hereby Dis-joyn the
Presbytery of _Zetland_ from the Provinciall of _Cathnes_ and _Orknay_,
And declares for these reasons, That the said Presbytery is to be
hereafter subordinate immediately to the Generall Assembly, For which
cause, their Commissioners are to be sent to each Generall Assembly the
more carefully, And it is hereby recommended to them that they send to the
next Assembly a particular information of the quality and condition of all
their Kirks according to the direction of the act of the preceding
Assembly Sess. 27. Entituled an act for pressing and furthering the
planting of Kirks.

Aug. 10. 1648. _Postmeridiem,_ Sess. 38.

_Overtures for the Remedies of the grievous and common Sins of the Land in
this present time._

The Sins of the Land and the Causes and occasions thereof being
considered, The following Remedies of these Sins were propounded.

Civill Remedies.

_For the present, untill the Overtures prepared to be presented to the
Parliament, It is to be Recommended to every Congregation to make use of
the 9. Act of the Parliament 1645. at_ Perth, _for having Magistrates and
Justices in every Congregation, and of the 8. Act of the said Parliament
against Swearing, Drinking and mocking of Piety, and all other Acts of
Parliament for restraining or punishing of Vice; particularly for the
better restraining of the sin of Whoredom that each Magistrate in every
Congregation exact and make compt to the Session of fourty Pounds for each
Fornicatour and Fornicatrix, of an hundred Merks for each one of their
relapse in Fornication, of an hundreth Pounds fo