shall be sent to the persons formerly appointed to
receive the fourty shillings, that they may see the right distribution and
employment thereof; Recommending the Presbyteries see this punctually
performed. And accompt thereof shall be craved at Synods and Generall
Assemblies. It is alwayes to be remembred that the Congregations exeemed
from the fourty shillings are also exeemed from this Collection.

_Commission for a conference of Ministers, Lawyers and Physitians,
Concerning the tryal and punishment of Witch-craft, Charming and
Consulting._

The Generall Assembly Taking to their serious consideration the growth of
the sins of Witchcraft, Charming and Consulting, notwithstanding the
frequent Recommendations for restraining thereof; And remembring that the
Generall Assembly 1647. did propose a good way for the tryal and
punishment of these sinnes, by appointing conferences with some Ministers,
Lawyers and Physitians in that matter which hath never yet taken effect;
Therefore the Assembly doth appoint Masters, _Robert Dowglas, Robert
Blair, Mungo Law, James Hammilton, John Smith, Robert Traill, George
Leslie, John Hamilton, Iohn Duncan, Samuel Rutherfoord, James Wood, Iohn
Leviston, Iames Guthrie, Andro Cant, David Calderwood, Iohn Moncreiff,
Frederick Carmichael, Iames Durhame, Patrick Gillespie, Robert Ker,
Ephraim Melvil_, Ministers, To consider seriously of that matter, and to
consult and advise therein amongst themselves, As also with Sir _Archibald
Iohnston_ of _Wariston_, Clerk Register, Mr _Thomas Nicolson_ his
Majesties Advocate, Mr _Alexander Peirson_, one of the ordinary Lords of
Session, Sir _Lewes Stewart_, Mr _Alexander Colvil_, and Mr _Iames
Robertson_ Iustice Deputes, Masters _Rodger Mowit, John Gilmoir_, and
_Iohn Nisbet_, Laweers; and with Doctors _Sibbald, Cunninghame_, and
_Purves_, Physitians severally or together as occasion shall offer; And
the Assembly earnestly requests & confidently expects from their learned
and Iudicious Lawyres and Physitians beforenamed, their best endeavours
and concurrence with their brethren of the Ministrie for advise and
counsell herein, and for conference in the said matter; And Ordaine the
said brethren to make report of the result of their consultations and
conferences from time to time as they make any considerable progresse to
the Commission for publick affaires, And the said Commission shall make
report to the next Generall Assembly.

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