GS 1971 ARTICLE 38 – Re-opening-Finances Synod Orangeville, 1968
The chairman requests Synod to sing Psalm 96: 1. Committee III presents:
Materials – Agenda H, 3
Report financial Committee Synod 1968 plus attached Auditing Report of the Church at Fergus-Guelph, Ont. (See Supplement I, Page 53)
Information
The receipts of Synod 1968 from the Churches were $7,588.50; from reimbursements $517.75; from Deputies for Contact with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church appointed by General Synod 1965 their balance $257.33; from Financial Committee, General Synod 1965 their balance $3:2.00. The expenses of Synod were $6,104.40; the expenses of Committees appointed by Synod $1,194.23. Cash on hand on April 15, 1971, was $1,094.95, which amount has been transferred to the Financial Committee for this General Synod appointed by the Church at New Westminster. However, this amount shows an unexplained deficit of $2.00. Still to be paid are expenses made by some members of Committees appointed by General Synod 1968 and by the second clerk of Synod 1968.
Recommendations
- 1. To express its thanks for the work of the Financial Committee 1968.
ADOPTED
- 2. To discharge the Financial Committee 1968 on the basis of the auditors’ report of the Church at Fergus-Guelph, Ont.
ADOPTED
- 3. To notify the Church at Orangeville, Ont. of the decision.
ADOPTED
- 4. To request the Financial Committee appointed by the convening Church at New Westminster to reimburse the expenses of general synodical Committees.