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congregations , and by any other mode that may be deemed desirable . 2 . This Association shall be supported By donations , and annual subscriptions of not less than five shilling's each .
3 . All subscribers shall have the option of selecting books from such catalogues as may be presented , to the full amount of their subscription - to any amount less than they subscribe 5 also , to any higher atnoimt , by paying * the additional sum . to the collector at the time the selection is made .
4 . Every person making- a donation of five guineas shall be considered a member for life , and entitled to every privilege of a yearly subscriber of five shillings , with a proportionate advantage for every extra guinea that may be given .
5 . The surplus money which may be in the hands of the Treasurer , shall be expended in the county of Sussex for sticli purposes as are stated m the first rule . 6 . A central committee , consisting of 9 members , with power to add to their number , ( t ^ re e of who *** shall be a qu otum , ) together with a . Treasurer and two
Secretaries , shall be appointed to manage the affairs of the institution ; whose business shall be to correspond with different Book Societies , to procure for the members such tracts or books as they may have chosent from the catalogues ,, and to dispose of the money which may be in the hands of the Treasurer .
7 . Local committee ^ , consisting * of not tess than three members , shall be formed in every congregation , where it may be necessary ; whose province it shall be to correspond with the central committee , to order of the central committee the books
which may have been selected by the sub- ' scribe rs , and to transmit the surplus money to the Treasurer . 8 . The annual subscriptions shall be considered due on the first of January . 9 . All subscribers , having paid their subscriptions and wishing to receive books , shall srive notice to the Collector within
three months after the first of January , or lose their ntttifination for one year . 10 . An atonual meeting' of the society shall take place some time in the ttifcntfi of July , in every year , when a report of its proceedings shall be read , a new committee chosen , and officers elected for the ensuing yean
Officers for the present Year . EBENEZER JOHNSTON , EsQ , Treasurer , Rkv . T . W . HORSFIELD , 7 * Mi * . THOMAS FISHER , j »« c *«**»™»
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Sussex Unitarian Association . Sir , th ermit me , through the medium of the Monthly Repository , to announce to the Unitarians in the South , that a Society Jias been" recently-established here , for the
promotion of Christian truth within the county of Sussex . The distribution of books forms the principal object which the Society has in immediate view , whilst at the same time it is intended to operate as Ol county Fellowship Fund . The
subscribers to the Association have the option of selecting books , to the full amount of their respective subscriptions 5 to any amount less than they subscribe ; also , to any higher amount , by payiag * the addi tional sum to the collector . The value of '
the books not claimed by subscribers , will "be thrown into a fund that is appropriated iti the assisting- of old and establishing iidw Cdnoreg'atioUs , as also to any other objects' Which may have a tendency to promote thie spread of Christian truth withiii the county . When the benefit which has resulted
from other societies of a like nature , is cVh&idercidy it is but fair and reasonable to eoncUmt that the present Association will * it * t be altogether unproductive of good . Neighbouring * counties have g-iven Birth to l * 0 dk Societies and Unitarian Fluids , wKlch have had the two-fold good eflfect of extending * the knowledge of what
We conceive to be trae Christianity , and of uniting- in closer bonds of friendship , the scattered individuals who supported thetii . The congregations of Sussex have , however , l > een in a great measure unconnected , and the memhers com posing * them dim oat tin known to each other . There
has been but little union , and but little activity amongst them , and the consequence has befen , that Unitarian Sentiments niiv ' fc made but comparatively little progress . It is to be hoped that the worst is past , and that brighter days are dawning hpbii us . A local interest has been excited by the Association : four
congregations are already connected with it , and a considerable number of subscribers has been obtained . Whatever other effects the Association may have , we cannot but anticipate with pleasure the union that it will produce , and the activity that it will call forth 9 whilst it will give the power of dlfriiiiiig * religious knowledge , and the irteaiis of conferring- pecuniary aid .
Lewes , Oct . 19 , 1819 . T . W . IL MulH of the Sussex Unitarian Association , for Promoting Christian Truth . 1 . The objects of this Association shall be toe promotion of Christian truth by the distribution of books , by g-lving" aasfofenoe to old and establishing new Unitarian
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 640, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/52/
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