_Act concerning Presbyteries maintaining of_ Bursars. The Generall Assembly Understanding that the frequent Recommendation of preceding Assemblies for maintaining Bursars, is by many Presbyteries neglected, Do therefore Ordain Synods to crave accompt thereof from Presbyteries at every Provinciall meeting, Which with the Presbyteries answer, shall be put upon record, That so the part both of Presbyteries and Synods and their negligance or diligence in so pious a work may be known by the examination 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.