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method of meliorating the condition of the poor . * • ? f Your Committee think it important to suggest to this General Meeting , for the guidance of the next Committee , the propriety of making an omission of such
Tracts as shall be deemed less important . They take leave to recommend this plan as best adapted to the funds of the Society , and calculated to enable your Committee to consult the interests of the Society by the printing of a much greater number of new Tracts . "
The total number of Tracts printed up to this time was stated to be 483 , 500 , of which there had been sent out from the Society ' s store 421 , 577 , leaving a stock on hand of 61 , 923 . During the last year there have been circulated 13 , 691 . The property of the Society was stated to be as follows :
Owing by Agents , Booksellers , and Country Societies ( besides arrears of Subscriptions *) . £ 90 14 4 Estimated value of the Stock 418 19 0 In the hands of the Treasurer 25 8 6 535 1 10 Owing by the Society for Paper to this time .. £ 62 8 6 Ditto for Printing 6 6 0 68 14 0 Leaving a Balance of .... £ 466 7 10 This Report having been received , thanks were voted to the officers of the past year for their services , and to the Miss Primes , for their handsome benefaction of 20 / . ; and the following gentlemen were elected into office for the
year ensuing : Treasurer % James Esdaile , Esq . ; Secretary , Rev . S . Wo od ; Com - milCee , Rey 9 , J . Yates , J . H . Ryland , E . Chapman , Messrs . Clennell , Evans , ^ mai ] EA (;}^ IJa uey , Revs , E . Tagart , B . t ^ VGb 'ifc A ^ eans > i * H d Mr . 'Dixon ; ^ zumtor ? , Dr * Bowling . Mr . Hart / and nffi'F $ ^> ' gW ^^ Wl * - Wicbe . 1 ^ Jp ^ rt $ o ^ conversation on tte
expe->• J i * Fhe * w niay be paid to i \ lr . Horwood , No * B , WfcWorook BuUdings , with whom is ndw left , for the convenience of Subscribers , a correct list of the sums which are due .
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diency of numbering the new Tracts consecutively from the last , or of . subati * tutiug them in the place of the old ones which should not be reprinted , the following resolution was passed :
" That it be referred to the Committee to consider whether it would not be expedient to omit the reprinting of particular Tracts , and that they be authorized to act in the case according to their own discretion . "
On this subject the Secretary will feel much obliged by communications from friends in the country , who were not able to attend the Annual Meeting . They may he addressed to him at the Society ' s office , No . 3 , Walbrook Buildings , Walbrook , London .
It has been judged desirable this year to delay ( he sending out of the Catalogues till after the Annual Meeting , but they will now be prepared as soon as possible .
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428 Intelligence . —Sunday-School Booh Society .
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Sunday-School Book Society . At a meeting held 4 th March , 1830 , for the purpose of establishing a Society for printing and publishing Books for the use of Sunday-schools , It was resolved , That a Society be formed , to be called " The Sunday-School Book Society . "
That the management of the Society shall be vested in the Representatives of Shareholders , each Shareholder of Jive pounds nominating one . That five Representatives shall form a quorum , and no resolution shall be valid
unless sanctioned by the major part of those present . That the Representatives shall meet on the third Thursday of every month , at seven o ' clock in the evening , for the dispatch of business , and at any other time , upon notice from the Secretary .
That an annual meeting shall be held in the Whitsun week , at which the Secretary shall report the state of the Society , the proceedings of the past year , and a Treasurer and Secretary be chosen . That , previous to the annual meeting , a month ' s notice shall be given to each Shareholder to nominate a Representative for the ensuing year ; but in case of omission , the former Representative shall continue in office .
That ? each ^ hare shall bear interest at the rate of five per cent , per annum , to be paid in the Society ' s publications at the retail price ; and when two or more schools or persous shall take a share , they shall appoint an individual in vvho . se
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1830, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2585/page/68/
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