shall be called the Judicial Committee; and whose
duty it shall be, to digest and arrange all the pa-
pers, and to prescribe, under the direction of the
judicatory, the whole order of the proceedings.
The members of this committee shall be entitled
notwithstanding their performance of this duty, to
sit and vote in the cause, as members of the judi-
catory.
41. But in cases of process on the ground of
general rumour, where there is, of course, no par-
ticular accuser, there may be a committee ap-
pointed, (if convenient) who shall be called the
Committee of Prosecution, and who shall conduct
the whole cause on the part of the prosecution.
The members of this committee shall not be per-
mitted to sit in judgment in the case.
42. No member shall retire from any judicatory,
without the leave of the moderator, nor withdraw
from it to return home, without the consent of the
judicatory.
43. The moderator of every judicatory, above
the church session, in finally closing its sessions,
in addition to prayer, may cause to be sung an
appropriate psalm or hymn, and shall pronounce
the apostolical benediction.