GS 1965 ARTICLE 20: Report General Archives. Agenda 8 F

Advisory Committee II comes with recommendations regarding the General Archives Report. These recommendations, after amendment, are adopted as follows:

• “1. The General Synod has taken note of the report of Rev. G. Van Dooren (dated September 22, 1965), minister of the archiving Church at Burlington.
• 2. The General Synod decides:
  • a.    to appoint the church at Burlington as archiving church, with thankfulness for the work done in this matter for the churches;
  • b.    to requests the church at Burlington to find a suitable place for the general archives, until a final place be found for keeping the general archives;
  • c.    to authorize the church at Burlington to purchase the necessary steel cabinets and any further materials, and to submit reimbursement requests to the committee mandated by this general synod for facilitating Synod finances (c.o. H.A. Van Spronsen, 11141 – 57 Street, Edmonton, AB).
• 3. Further, the General Synod decides to declare it is desirable for the churches to continue to cooperate in this, so that all that is relevant with respect to the history of the churches be forwarded to the archiving church.”