5. The Account brought in by the Province of Berry concerning their Colledge, was accepted and approved.
6. The Account brought in by the Province of Xaintouge for their Col∣ledge, was also allowed and approved.
7. The Account of the Province of Burgundy for their Colledge is re∣manded back again to be more exactly revised by them.
8. The Province of Brittany shall audit their Accounts for a Colledge in the next Synod of Anjou; and in case of failure herein, they shall for∣feit their Priviledge and Claim unto a Colledge; nor shall the said Pro∣vince receive a farthing token of the Moneys granted and designed for a Colledge.
9. The Province of Normandy was censured for bringing in a partial Ac∣count concerning their Colledge, and they are turned over to the next Synod of the Isle of France, there to perfect their Accounts, or else they shall be deprived of their Right unto a Colledge.
10. The Consuls and Inhabitants of the Town of Privas complaining that the Synod of Aubennas had taken away their Colledge which they had maintained for divers years past, by the encouragement given them from the Provincial Synod held at Annonay: This Assembly decreeth, that the said Colledge shall be fixed and settled in this Town of Privas, and be as∣sisted with the same Salary as other Colledges, the said Consuls adding ac∣cording to their promises and offers four hundred Livers of their own common Moneys, and they are desired to discharge their duty in maintain∣ing the said Colledge, as they have hitherto done to their great honour, and their former Accounts are all allowed and approved.
11. All Accounts about Colledges which have been redemanded shall be brought unto the next National Synod there to be revised and approved.
12. It's left to the prudence of the Provinces to erect as many Schools and Colledges more as they can, or else to assist those already in being with some better Maintenance.
13. All the Provinces shall have Colledges, excepting such as have Main∣tenance assigned for Universities, yet nevertheless those very Provinces be∣sides their Universities may erect Colledges at their own Charges; and that of Languedoc shall give unto the said Colledge of Beziers the sum of four hundred Livers to be raised out of the Stock of their University-Moneys, amounting to two thousand six hundred Livers.
14. The Provinces requesting that their Colledges might be enlarged in number, and better provided for with Maintenance: It was resolved that their number should not be augmented, but that every Province which hath Right unto a Colledge shall have four hundred Livers a year allowed them for their Colledge, until the next National Synod.
15. Since that Decree about the Accounts of our Academies at Nismes and Montpellier (which amounted to the sum of sixteen thousand eight hundred and fourscore Livers) the Deputies of Lower Languedoc having remonstrated unto this Assembly, that in the Account of the University of Nismes, there was a resumption of sixteen hundred and four Livers, eigh∣teen Sous, and eight Deniers, owing from the Sieur Palot, whilst he was Receiver General; and seven hundred and twenty Livers in the Account of the University of Montpellier, they petitioned this Assembly, that they would be pleased to allow thereof in payment, and that the said sums might be deducted upon the Debet of the said Account, as also that there might be allowed unto the Sieurs Ferrier and Gigord for the years 1601, 1602, 1603, and 1604, the sum of sixteen hundred Livers wanting to make up the sum of six hundred granted them by an Ordinance of the Provincial Synod of Montpellier, and this both for the time past and to come; and farther, to allow upon the Debet of the same Account unto the Sieur Gigord his Wages