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V .. That as the existing committee possess the power of adding to their number , they , together with such other persons as may be chosen by ? hem shall be the committee for the current year .
VF . That on the Saturday after the second Wednesday in the month of May in every year , this society shall hold its annual meeting , at the New London Tavern , Cheapside , when a treasurer shall be chosen , the accounts presented , and a report of the proceedings in the foregoing , vear shall be made
which Report shall be afterwards transmitted to every congregation contributing to the society . VIT . That at every such annual meeting a committee consisting of thirty persons resident in London , or within five miles thereof , shall
be chosen from the members of this society ; one half of whom shall be ministers ^ and the other half laymen ; one third of whom , who shall have been least frequent
in thejr attendance shall , at the end of the year , retire from the committee , but shall be re-eligible after the expiration of one year ; and that the said committee shall
be open to all the members of the society resident in the country , whenever they attend the sar ae 5 and that they shalL be entitled to Tote at any of the meetings . VIII . That ihe committee shall
meet on the last Tuesday in every month , at six o ' clock in the evening , punctually , er oftener if necessary , at the New London Tavern , Cheapside .
IX * That the committee ^ for the time being , shkll elect all the officers except the Treasurer ; shall decide on all applications which shall be made to them for protection ; shall conduct all the affairs
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of the society , and give such d ' u rections therein ^ as they , or the major part of them present , at any meeting duly convened , shall re . solve , and that five of them shall be competent to
act-X . That the treasurer annuall y chosen by the general meeting , shall be a member of the committee for the titne being . XI . That there shall be one or more secretaries , who shall gra . tuitously answer all letters , and in jail cases of emergency convene special meetings of the committee . XII . That persons subscribing
the sum of \ L Is . per annum , shall be honorary members , during the payment of such subscriptions : and that every person making a donation of 10 ? . IOs . shall bean
honorary member for life : and thai : such honorary members may attend the general annual meetings of this society , XIIL That all investments of money in the public funds ; or other real securities for the use of
this society , shall be made in the names of four trustees to be appointed by the committee , who shall execute a deed of trust , declaratory of the trust confided to
them ; and upon the death , resignation , or incapacity of either of them , another trustee shall be forthwith appointed by the
committee . 7 ORM OF A BEQUEST . I give unto the Treasurer for the time'being , of a certain voluntary society formed in London , in the
year 1811 , called The Protestani Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty , the sum of pounds of lawful English money , to be paid within mont ^ next after my decease , out of sucn part only of my personal estate ,
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354 Toleration Act .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/34/
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