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tnittee , after conference with the Remonstrant brethren , the following amendment of this declaration was substituted : " The Committee of the Remonstrants baring alleged that they meet us in the name , not only of those who had made the application to the last Synod at Cooks town , but also of those who had eigued the Remonstrance to the Synod at Lurgan , we are willing to extend the benefit of such stipulations as may be
entered into on the present occasion , towards an amicable separation , to all the ministers who have signed either of the above documents . And further , that if the Committee of the Remonstrants are now unable to furnish us with a list of those on behalf of whom they are appoiuted to treat with us for an amicable separation , our Moderator will be ready to receive such list , on or before Wednesday , the 30 th instant . "
' * This amended resolution having been submitted , the Remonstrants stated that they are not satisfied with the limitation contained therein . ' * The Synod ' s Committee then submitted the following replies to the several applications made to them by the Remonstrants :
1 . " That after payment of the debt due on the Professorship Fund > au equitable proportion of the balance shall be returned to those congregations in which contributions have been made in its behalf , and which shall , at a public meeting regularly convened for the purpose , resolve to apply for the same . " ( Accepted by ^ Remonstrants . ) 2 . " That the rights of the present contributors and their successors are
unquestionably secured to them , under the existing regulations of the Widows * Fund : but that , agreeably to our preliminary resolution , we hold ourselves incompetent to decide upon the alleged claims of any but the Remonstrants and their successors . ' *
( Remonstrants stated that they are satisfied with this stipulation , so far as regards themselves and their successors ; but are by no means satisfied that it does not embrace such ministers as may hereafter become connected with them . ) 3 . ** That an equitable proportion of the Charitable Fund shall be returned to
those congregations in which collections in aid of that Fund < may have been made , and which shall , at a public meeting regularly convened for the purpose , resolve to apply for the same . " ( Accepted by Remonstrants . ) 4 . " That after every exertion shall have been used to collect the arrears of
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fines due to the Incidental Fund , in which it is expected that the Remonstrants will join—If any supplies remain , an equitable proportion shall be returned ; but if there be a deficiency , a due proportion shall be contributed by the Remonstrants , agreeably to their own offer to make up the same . " ( Accepted by Remonstrants . )
5 . " That the Home Mission Fund , not being a funded capital , but one raised annually to meet an annual expenditure , the accounts of which are passed each year at Synod , we do not conceive that we can with propriety take into consideration any sum save the existing balance ;
and that this amount shall be equitably divided , in proportion to the sums contributed since the meeting of Synod in Strabane , in the year 1827 ; this proportion to be determined by Messrs . Lawson Annesley and Gawin Orr . " ( Accepted by Remonstrants . )
In reference to the preceding resolutions it was farther resolved , " That where congregations , who have contributed to any of the preceding Funds , and who may claim their proportion of the same , may have been
separated into two distinct congregations since they had so contributed , the payment of such claims shall only be made in proportion to the contributions of that part of the congregation who may withdraw from the Synod . " ( Accepted by Remoustrauts . )
6 . " That our Moderator shall be directed to sign the Memorials [ to the King , for a share of his Royal Bounty ] of the Remonstrants , in the same manner in which those of the ministers of the Presbytery of Antrim are at present signed by him ; the Synod reserving to itself the right of making such representations to Government as the circumstances of the case may require . "
( With this reply the Remonstrants stated they were dissatisfied . ) The 7 th and 8 th stipulations were agreed to . The only matters which can give room for auy apprehension , are the reservations made by the Synod ' s Committee , of the rights claimed on behalf of ministers not being the successors of the present Remonstrants , who may hereafter be desirous of joining them .
Such accessions may be expected from two quarters : congregations now belonging to the Synod of Ulster way hereafter revolt to the Remonstrants j or new congregations may be formed under the auspices of the latter body . The ministers of the first description
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IntelUgende . —Synod of UUter . 203
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/59/
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