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tkms discontinued during the last year aakmnt to 23 / . Tfe amount of new subscriptions received is 5 d / . 10 * ., being an increase-in the whole amount of subscriptions of 36 / . 10 * . The congregational collections , during the same period , have produced a larger sum than in any former
year ; and the legacies and benefactions , which have been received , have exceeded the usual average . The Trustees have , in consequence , been enabled to make a considerable addition to the permanent fund , by vesting therein the sum of 500 / . The Treasurer having reported that a
large balance of cash remained in his hands on account of the permanent Fund , and it being deemed expedient that the same should be invested in the purchase of chief rents or ia the Funds , the foliowijig gentlemen were appointed Trustees for all investments which may be made
in real property on that account , viz . George William Wood , Esq ., Ithe Rev . John Gooch Robberds , the Rev . John Gtrmdy , Messrs . Nathaniel Philips , Thos . H . RobinSon , James Touchet , Jun ., James Darbishire , Jun ., John Ashton Yates ,
Benjamin H . Bright , T . B . W . Sanderson , Edward Baxter , Samuel Kay and Hugo Worthmgton , And Joseph Strutt , Esq ., Daniel Gaskell , Esq ., Robert Philips , Jun ., Esq ., and Offley Shore , Esq ., were appointed Trustees for investments in personal property to be made on the same
account . The Trustees have now to communicate to the public the proceedings which have taken place in reference to the Legacy of 50 D 0 / ., bequeathed by the late Samuel Jone ^ l | sq ., to the principal officers of the College , in trust for the augmentation of the salaries of Protestant Dissenting
Ministers ; and which is noticed in the Report of the Trustees , published in the Repository for November , 1819 . In the comme % mcnt of the year a communication was made by the Trustees of the Legacy to the Committee , stating , that thfcj nad received an intimation from the acting executors "^ of Mr . Jones ' s Will , that the Legacy would not be paid , except with the sanction of the Court of
Chancy ; that in their opinion , the proceedings , which it would be necessary to institute in order to establish the bequest , should be carried on under the direction <* a public body , rather than by thems as individuals ; and they , therefore ,
admitted the case to tjie consideration ot the College Committee , tn consequence of this communication , the Com-J ? lfct ? S undertook the superintendence of ^ e 5 % nW suit > which , * foey were ad-V ^ r ^? jfld be the only means of ren-Jto'iWWlb ' Mrp Jones ' s benevolent * 9 «^ q * is . A Bfll was accordingly filed
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in the , Court of Chancery , under the direction of the Committee , praying fh ^ t the Executors of Mr . Joae&'s Will miglft be directed to pay over the Legacy of 5000 / . to the individual named by the Testator , for the charitable purposes contemplated by the WilL
The defendants have since filed their answer to the Bill , and the proceedings have gone on in regular progression . The evidence in support of those allegations of the Bill which we not admitted try the defendants , is now preparing , and ft is expected that the case will be he ^ rd before the Vice Chancellor in the early part of the ensuing year .
At the close of the business the Chair was taken by Daniel Gaskell , Esq ., when the tharitra of the Meeting , were unanimously voted to Ottiwell Wood , Esq ., for his services as President . In the afternoon the subscribers and friends of the Institution dined together at the Bridgewater Arms , to celebrate
the Thirty-fifth Anniversary of the College . Ottiwell Wood , Esq ., filled the President ' s Chair on the occasion , and by his acceptable services contributed much to the rational enjoyment of the evening . J . G . ROBBERDS , S . D . DARB 1 SHIRE , Secretaries . Manchester , September I , 1821 .
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Intelligence . —New Unitdrian Chapel , Digs . 629
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New Unitarian Chapel , Porfc " dlasgow * September 3 . At Port-Glasgow the foundation stone was laid of a Chapel for Unitarian worship . The Rev . B . Mardon , of Glasgow , delivered an Address and Prayer , appropriate to the occasion . —Glasgow Chronicle .
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New Unitarian Chapel , Diss . The first stone of a new Unitarjati Chapel , to be built in the Park FieUl , Diss , Norfolk , to replace that which till now had existed at Palgrave , was laid &n Wednesday the 26 th of September , by
Meadows Taylor and Thorny Dysott , Esqs . Several other friends of the society were present , and we are bafipy to bear our testimony to the liberal spirit of the age , by stating , that during thp inte ** val the Society of Friends have lent to
the Unitarian congregation their Meeting House , in which place the Rev ., Stephen Weaver Browne , A . B ., of Monkweil Street , delivered , on Thursday the 4 th oJF October , a very striking , extemporaneous discourse on the Lord ' s Supper , before a very numerous and respectable congi'ega
turn . « < Captain Thrush has giv <^ permissiou to the society at Dies to ropryit the Letter stating hie reasons for ^ uHjing the wor
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 629, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/61/
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