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of the same year , and as terminating on the first day of January next ensuing . No subscriber shall be entitled to recommend a . case , or to vote at any meeting until his subscription for the current year be paid . 7 . There shall be two general meetings
of the society , one on the Thursday in Whitsun week , and the other the last Wednesday in November ; at both meetings a report shall be made of the state of the society ; and at the meeting in November * officers shall be- elected for the
ensuing year . 8 . At one of th * e general meetings to be determined on by the Committee , a Sermon shall be preached , before the society , By a minister previously appointed by the Committee , when a public collection shall be made for the benefit of the Fund .
9 A Treasurer and Secretary shall be annually chosen at the gerieral meeting in November ; the Treasurer shall receive all subscriptions and make all necessary disbursements on account of the
society ; the Secretary shall give notice of the meetings of the society , record its minutes , and conduct its correspondence . Both the Treasurer and Secretary sfrall male a half yearly report to the society at its two general meeting ? .
io . A Committee consisting of nine inembers ( including the Treasurer and So cretary for the time being ) resident in or near London , shall be annually appointed at the general meeting in November to manage the affairs of the society , five of whom shall constitute a quorum , and three of the said Committee , viz . those three
who upon inspection of the Secretary ' s minutes shall be found to have given the least attendance at Committee-meetings , shall be considered ineligible for one year . ii . The Committee shall meet orjee a month , or oftner if the Secretary shall think proper to call them togetlier
12 . Corresponding members shall be appointed at the general meeting in November , in different parts of the kingdom , to v ^ hom it shall , b " e recommended to £ ran mit to the Secretary an annual report of the state of Uhitarianism in their several di tiirt ^ to be laid before the general
meeting iii November , and otherwise to promote the general objects of the soci © ty . Corre ponding members shall be entitled to attend the Committee meetings In London , and shall be considered for the time being as members of the Committee . 13 . Two raembers shall be chosen anaually by the society , at its general meet-
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ing in November , as . auditors of tfifc Treasurer ' s accounts , by whom all the accounts shall be allowed arid > igned prior to theirs being submitted to the society . 14 . Every individual wishing to receive assistance as a preacher from the Unitarian Fund , shall produce ample
testimonials to the Corrtmittee , of his moral character and ministerial qualifications ; and every congregation desirous of assistance from the Fund , shall produce a recommendation , signed by two or more subscribers not members of such congregation .
15 . The- Committee shall have the power of electing as honorary members such persons as by their advice and services shall render themselves particularlyuseful to the society , who shall possess all the privileges of life-subscribers ;
provided always that the Committee shall not elect more than two honorary mejiw bers in one year , and that they specify in the Secretary ' s report at one of the half yearly meetings the considerations on which suck elections are made .
16 . The Committee shall have the power in any emergency of calling an extraordinary general meeting of the society . r 7 * The above rules shall not be a l tered except at the general meeting in November . Any alterations intended to be proposed to the society , must be first notified to the Committee at one of its
meetings ; and no motion for altering the rules shah be carried unless by two-thirds of the members present at the November general meetings Joseph Holben , Esq . Treasurer * No . 78 , Lombard-street .
, Rev . R . Aspjlam ) , Secretary , Hackney , By whom communications and subscriptions aie received on behalf of the society .
L 1 TKRAR 7 . The two g-old medals , annually "given by the Chancellor of the University of * Cambridge * for the be ^ t proficients in Claskai literature , were on Thursday March b , adjudged—the first to JV ! r ^
Mitchell , B . A . of Pembroke-Hall ; the other to Mr . Hustler , B . A . of Trinity College . Vhe former gentleman received his education in Christ ' s Hospital ; ano ~ ther of whose scholars last year obtained one of the same prizes .
At the anniversary meeting of the Highland Society of Scotland , bir Johi > Sinclair laid ou the cable , the Printed
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164 Religions and Literary Intelligence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/52/
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