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the willof the benevolent-founder of the charity » At the close of the meeting the Chair was taken by Benjamin Hey wood , Esq ., when the thanks of the meeting were
unanimously voted to James Touchet , Esq . * for his services as President . S . D . DARBiSHlRE , Ja Jo TAYLER , Secretaries . Manchester , May 1 , 1826 c
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Manchester College , York * The Annual Examination of Students in Manchester College , York , will ta&e place in the Common Hall of the College , on the Evening of Monday , the 26 th of June instant , and the three following days , on the latter of which the Prizes will be awarded by the Visitor .
The York Annual Meeting of Trustees will be held in the Afternoon of Wednesday , the 28 th of June , and , hy adjournment , on the following days ; and the friends of the Institution will dine together on the Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , at Etredge's Hotel , at five o ' clocko
The Rev , William Shepherd , of Gateacre , will preach the Examination Sermon , on the preceding Sunday , in St . Saviour ' s Gate Chapel . S . D . DARBISH 1 RE , J . J . TAYLER , Secretaries * Manchester , May 18 , 1826 .
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Unitarian Society . The Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of this Society was held on Thursday , April 13 , 1826 ' , and It was made special for the purpose of considering the following recommendation from the Committee , which was grounded upon a communication from the Committee of the British and
Foreign Unitarian Association : * That this Committee recommend to the next General Meeting the union of this Society with the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , upon terms ( with a view principally to the preservation of the rights of the Life Subscribers ) to be arranged by a deputation to be appointed for the purpose , and the Committee of the Association "
I he meeting having taken this recommendation into consideration unanimously resolved , < That it is expedient that the Unitarian Society should unite with the Bikish and Foreign Association : '"
a deputation of five gentlemen was then appointed to confer with the Committee ° t the Association on the subject of such union , and they were instructed to make , &u equitable arrangement for preserves the interests of the Life Subscribers '
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ana to report the result of the conference to a special General Meeting of the Society . The Treasurer and Secretary were requested to continue in office until tJier proposed union should be effected , tfr wind up the accounts of the Society , This deputation inet a deputation . Of tlie Committee of the British and Foreign
Association , on the 26 th of April . After very mature deliberation , both parties agreed in recommending that the Unitarian Book Society should be united to the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , and its stock of property handed over to the Association , to the separate account kept hy it for the book departoieut .
That on this junction being effected , it should be understood that , In consideration of the property contributed , ( amounting to about 800 / , ) the present Life Subscribers of the Book Society , and also such of the Annual Subscribers as
should continue their subscriptions , should be entitled to receive as heretofore , if claimed , an annual allotment of books proportioned to their subscriptions , to be nominated by themselves from the Society ' s catalogue , such allotment and the amount thereof to be from time to time
made by the Sub-Committee managing the book department , in £ he same manner as had been before done by the Committee of the Unitarian Society . That the Book Society should collect its subscriptions for this year , and close its accounts on the 31 st December , 1826 , from which time the subscriptions should be received by the Association . *
This recommendation was submitted to a special General Meeting of the Unitarian Society held May 4 , 1826 , by which it was unanimously agreed that it should be adopted ; and on the acceptance of it
by the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , the Treasurer and Secretary were authorized to carry the proposed plan of union into effect . The following resolutions were then unanimously passed :
" That the cordial thanks of the meeting be given to Thomas Gibson , Esq ., for the valuable services he has so long rendered to the Unitarian Society In the office of Treasurer . " " That the cordial thanks of this meeting be givesi to the Rev .-Dr . Thomas Ilees for the very zealous and able , services which he has rendered to this
Society as Us Secretary for many years . " That the minute book of the Society < in& the Treasurer ' s account books be given over to the Unitarian Association with a special request that the s ^ me may be carefully preserved . " In consequence of a communication from the Secretary on the subject , he
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Intelligence . —Unitarian Society . 313
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/61/
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