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was requested to extract from the mi « nute book of the Society all proceedings and resolutions connected with the printing of the Improved Version of the New Testament , which he was instructed to lay before the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , intimating at the same time the wish of the meeting , that the
Association would record the statement , ami accept the management of the trust relating to that work on the terms declared in such document . In case the British and Foreign Unitarian Association acceded to this proposal , the present Trustees of the Improved Version were empowered to deliver up the money and books now in their hands to that Society , to be vested in new Trustees to be
appointed by it . "It was then unanimously resolved , That the cordial thanks of the meeting be given to the Rev . Thomas Belsham and the other Trustees of the Improved Version Fund , for their faithful attention to the important objects of the trust ; and tliat this Society cannot separate without conveying especially to Mr .
Belsham the assurance of the deep interest ; they feel for his happiness ^ and of their gratitude for his important services in the creation and in the support of the Unita ^ rlan Society . " At the Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association held May 17 , 1826 , it was unanimously
resolved to join with it the Unitarian Society on the terms agreed upon by the deputations of the two Institutions . The Association also accepted the Trust of tlie Improved Version Fund , on the conditions upon which it was held by the Unitarian Society , as they were stated in the history of that work , which was read to the meeting .
In consequence of these proceedings , tlie Unitarian Society will cease to exist on the 31 st of December next , after which period it will be merged in the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , and its peculiar objects be thenceforth prosecuted by a Sub-Committee of that Institution ) , speedily appointed for the purpose . T . 11 .
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Christian Tract Society * The Seventeenth Annual General Meeting of the friends of this Institution was held on Wednesday , April 19 th , at the Old London Tavern , liishopsgate Street , London ; Thomas Hornby , Esq ., in the Chair ,, The Treasurer ' s report stated that tliere was a balance in his hands of £ l ® . 5 tft let *
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The report of the Committee commenced with a notice of the loss sustained by death , during the last year , of two of the Society ' s aged but active friends Samuel Farkes and Richard Holt , Esqs !
To tlie former , as one of the Founders of the Society and for many years a valuable member of the Commute—and to the latter as also a useful and zealous member of it , a tribute of well-merited respect was paid . But it was stated
that it was not by death alone the Society had sustained loss ; for , in consequence of the lamented indisposition of the Rev . James Yates , of Birmingham it had been deprived of his important and gratuitous services as Agent . The meeting was , however , congratulated on
Mr . Yates ^ s having kindly procured a successor ; Mr . Josiah Allen , of Col more Row Birmingham , having conseuted to act as Mr . Yates ' s deputy till the Committee could be apprized of his necessary resignation . By arrangements since made with Mr . Allen , that gentleman will continue to discharge the duties of agent to the Society for the Midland counties .
Allusion was again made to the desirableness of having the five volumes of Tracts printed uniformly ; and a proposition to this effect would have been made , had Dot the Committee been deterred by an unexpected claim on the finances of the Society , A bill amouuting to ^ 48 . 14 s » 6 d . for printing done in 1815-16-17 , had
recently been presented to the Treasurer , and payment requested . As the creditor had never mentioned his claim daring the last eight years , the officers of the Society were wholly unconscious that such a debt was owing . But as its aniount considerably exceeded the balance in the Treasurer ' s hands , the Committee did mot feel authorized to recommend the
incurring of a fresh debt ^ though they believed that the republication of the Tracts , la the form above alluded to 9 would effect an ultimate saving to the Society . Daring the last year nine of the numbers have been reprinted , and three new Tracts have been recently published . Of the old and new Tracts 21 , 000 copies
have been printed since the last anniversary , and 19 , 935 sent out from the store . The total number printed was said to he 424 , 500 , of which 365 , 014 have been circulated : leaving a stock on hand of 59 , 486 . To keep up the series it was added , that three more of the Tracts
must immediately be reprinted . New depots having been established at Maidstone and Newcastle-on-Tyne a demand for the Tracts commensurate with that of the preceding , was confidently anticipated during the ensuing year ,. The Society ' s property was stated to be as follows ;
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314 Intelllgenee .-- " Christian TraU Societyo
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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/62/
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