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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, collected by JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONBODDO.
Date: Archibald Thomson
v.
Harry Hill, &c
19 June 1739 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
[C. Home, No. 110.]
This was a process at the instance of the Kirk-session of ——— against two of their elders, who had joined Ebenezer Askine, in order to oblige them to give up into their box some money which they had collected at Ebenezer's meetings, and which they pretended to dispose of.
The Lords assoilyied from the pursuit, on account of the manifest will of the contributors. Iterum Dissent. Arniston. In this question, two or three of the Lords declared it to be their opinion, that the elders, in conjunction with the heritors, had the disposal of the charities of the parish, not the elders alone,
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