IX. SYNOD OF FIFE-to consist of the following Presbyteries:-Kirkaldy, Kinross, Cupar, St Andrews. To meet on the second Tuesday of April and October. First at Cupar in April 1844.

This Synod to hold its ordinary meetings at Cupar, Kirkaldy, and St Andrews, according to such rule as the Synod may appoint. The corresponding members to be a minister and elder from each of the Synods of Lothian and Tweedale, Stirling, Perth, and Angus and Mearns.—The new Presbytery of Kinross to comprehend the congregations at Kinross, Milnathort, and Keltie in the Presbytery of Dunfermline, Blairingone and Fossaway in the Presbytery of Auchterarder, Portmoak in the Presbytery of Kirkaldy, and Strathmiglo in the Presbytery of Cupar, all as before mentioned.

X. SYNOD OF ANGUS AND MEARNS-to consist of the following Presbyteries :— Dundee, Meigle, Arbroath, Forfar, Brechin, Fordoun.-To meet on the fourth Tuesday of April and October. First at Dundee in April 1844.

The ordinary places of meeting of this Synod to be Brechin and Dundee, with power to meet also at Arbroath and Montrose as the Synod may see cause. The Synods of Aberdeen, Perth, and Fife, to send each a minister and elder as corresponding members to the Synod of Angus and Mearns.-The Presbytery of Meigle to have attached to it the congregation at Rattray as before mentioned.

XI. SYNOD OF ABERDEEN-to consist of the following Presbyteries:-Aberdeen, Kincardine O'Neill, Alford, Garioch, Ellon, Deer, Turriff, Fordyce:-To meet on the second Tuesday of April and October. First at Aberdeen in April 1844.

This Synod to meet always at Aberdeen, and to be corresponded with by the Synods of Angus and Mearns, Moray, and Perth, each sending a minister and elder:-Alford, placed by last Assembly under the Presbytery of Aberdeen, to be erected into a separate Presbytery, to meet first at Kinnethmont on the last Tuesday of November next, and afterwards ordinarily at Leith Lumsden, and to have the congregation at Rhynie, Presbytery of Strathbogie, attached to it. Alford to be supplemented in the meantime by Mr William Emslie, minister at Insch, and his Presbytery elder, from the Presbytery of Garioch.

XII. SYNOD OF MORAY-to consist of the following Presbyteries:- Strathbogie, Elgin, Aberlour, Forres, Nairn, Abernethy, Inverness:-To meet on the fourth Tuesday of April. First at Elgin in April 1844.

This Synod to meet ordinarily at Elgin with power also to meet at Forres and Nairn; and to be corresponded with by the Synods of Aberdeen and Ross, each sending one minister and one elder. The congregation of Laggan to be disjoined from Abertarff, and connected with Abernethy Presbytery in this Synod.

XIII. SYNOD OF Ross-to consist of the following Presbyteries:-Chanonry, Dingwall, Tain.-To meet on the third Tuesday of April. First at Chanonry on the third Tuesday of April 1844.

This Synod to meet alternately at Dingwall, Tain, and Chanonry, with power also to meet at Invergordon as they may see cause. The Synods of Moray, Glenelg, and Sutherland and Caithness, to send each two ministers and two elders as corresponding members.

XIV. SYNOD OF SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS-to consist of the following Presbyteries:-Dornoch, Tongue, Caithness.-To meet on the last Wednesday of April. First at Thurso in April 1844.

This Synod to meet at Thurso and Dornoch alternately, with power to meet at Golspie and Wick as they may see cause. The Synods of Glenelg and Ross, and the Presbytery of Orkney, to send each two ministers, and two elders as correspondents.

XV. SYNOD OF GLENELG-to consist of the following Presbyteries:-Lochcar

ron, Skye (including Uist), Lewis, Abertarff.—To meet on the last Wednesday of July. First at Portree in April 1844.

This Synod to meet at Portree and Broadford alternately, with power also to meet at Lochcarron as they may see cause, and to be corresponded with by the Synods of Moray, Ross, Sutherland and Caithness, and Argyll, each sending two ministers and two elders. Laggan to be disjoined from Abertarff, and connected with the Presbytery of Abernethy in the Synod of Moray, as before mentioned.

XVI. SYNOD OF ORKNEY.-The Presbytery of Orkney to have Synodical powers.

XVII. SYNOD OF ZETLAND -The Presbytery of Zetland to have Synodical powers.

The Assembly appoint the ordinary meeting of Synods to be opened with public worship, the sermon being preached by the Moderator of the former meeting; that of the first meeting to be preached by the minister within the bounds who shall last have been Moderator of the Synod.

The Assembly also appoint, that the Synods shall order to be recorded in the minute of their first diet the Protest of the 18th of May last, and the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission subsequently agreed upon and executed; and the same appointment is made on the newly erected Presbyteries of Penpont, Kin-ross, and Alford. And farther, the Assembly enjoin the several Presbyteries of-the Church, to send up to their respective Synods their Presbytery records, that the same may be visited according to the former practice of the Church; and they enjoin Presbyteries regularly to call for and to examine the records of kirk-sessions.

Candlish, Dr, 22, 43, 45, 60, 85, 93, 135, Falkirk Case, 61.