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THE DEPUTIES . First General Meeting for I 8 $ 7-26 th January . Wm . Smith , Esq ., M . P ., in the Chair . The Minutes of the last General Meeting being read and confirmed Mr , # ay-Mouftj proposed the ^ re-election of JMr , Smith as Chairman / wHch was carried py acclamation . Mr . Smith having
returned thanks , arid Mr . WAymouth arid JWfr . Collins being reaopbinifed JCXejpiit y Chairman and Treasurer , the usual annual vote of thanks was passed to the Trustees of DirVWUUams ' a L % aW for their permission to have the Registry of Births Uepit there , aiMl to Mi * ^ oates , the . Librarian , tor his care and attention theVettf
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^ r . flurr % > * f [ er $ lu $ n ? * ° Ae discussion on the subject ^ tge J ^ t ( ge ^ - ner ^ i Mee ting , moved that the Auqtfcqjrs ' report on the Treasurer ' s accounts jbe read : which motion having , been seconded > filr . Montgomery expressed bis gratification at the proposition , which woufd much influence his vote on the subject wjiich he understood was next to come before the meeting .
r A Deputy expressed his wish that , before tne motion was put , some explanation should be given of its effect . There must have been some ground for the practice , which had Jong prevailed of not making tfie accounts public . Legal difficulties might , perhaps , be the result of publicity ; and he thought , at all events , that some reasons should \> e given for adopting a new course . The Chairman was not aware that it
could be properl y said that there wjais any settled practice of concealment . l * he fact certainly was , the accounts had never Jbeen * produced , and ] t ' was equaUyJtrue pj&itfiey had not been catted for . There was a sort of tacit secresy observed , to Jbe sure , in which , perhaps , thfere was no harm or no good . It was quite competent for the meeting to follow any oiher system . '
The motion was then put and carried almost unanimously . From the Eteporfc It appeared , that the present fund consisted of , £ 7100 , three per cent . Consols , ahft ^ 3 000 Keduced—that the incom ^ of ^ he year consisted of $ ie balan ce ojf last year ' s accountV and Ui ^ diviilen ( l 8 on this stockV wjrichy after SHndry
disbVrsements of the year , consistin g mainly '" of the expeuses of the rooin , the Secretary ^ account , and the anioual vote to tHieXi-<) rariaii at Dr . WUUams ' s Library , for feeeping the Registry , ( amounting altogether ^ o £ 127 . 3 * ? rf . ) left a balance of about jp 2 $ Q cashJn ) hand . < ' ¦¦•< Mr . E . ^ aylor tfcen moved the further consideration of the adjourned motion made by him at the last meeting . Tlie
printed Report , and the discussion on jjhe former occasion , fully explained tji ^ vieWs of the Committee in recb ^ tnendiji g ^ the application of part of tli ^ ir furidj ( which Xi now appeared weri p ample ) in assisting the University of London , as an oftjech cdnsonaht with the views of this Sociipty . H ^ had onl y now to explain thai , on reconsideration , the Committee had thought it best to suggest that the shares should not be taken altogether in the names of the preseiit Trustees , but in distinct names ; 6 o aft to ^ tir ^ e h $
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BRITISH AND rORKipN UJflTARtAN ' ; ¦ " . ~ ¦ ' ¦ ^ ssroeiA ^ iro > i ; - ¦ ' ¦ ' . Test and Corporation Acts , The Committee have come to the following resolutions £ and from th 6 movements ivhich we Hear are' malting in several quarters , we trust t ) iat no long space of time will elapse before th | s question of Religious" Liberty , pn'ife broadest basis , wiii Cease to be the only one forgotten and neglected by both friends and foes in tine British Legislator ^ .
Resolved ; That the Secretary be instructed to write to the Secretary of the Deputies , requesting to know whether a * further meeting is contemplated of the united Deputations appointed tTvo yeaYs ago $ and communicating the strOn ^ feeling of
this Association , that immediate and zealous attention oiight to be ' j ? iyen by the Dissenters to procuring a mOtioia i 6 t the ' Repeal of the Test and Cdr ^ oratloh Acts ; and that longer delay is not only prejudicial to the cause , but injurious to the character' of the I > issenting body .
That it be submitted to the Deputies whether it be not expedient to endeavour to arrange for a public meeting oii the subject , at Which sbme of the leading Members of each House of Parliament , friendly to the establishment of the principies of religious liberty , might be requested to attend .
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Unitarian Marriage Bill . The Committee have requested , and are promised , an audience with the Earl of Liverpool , previous to determining the mode in which the application to Parliament should be renewed ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/68/
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