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N.llERICAN ROARD OF MIssION.

TRe Amer;naa Beard of CommissiOner,s .Tor Foreign Missions was incorporated in the year lsIa. It now consists of 67 members residing in different parts of the Union. Twenty-nrne are laymen. or the Clergy thirteen are Presidents of colleges, and siA are Professors in Theological Seminaries.- Of COrresponding Members there are in this country, mine; and in foreign countries twelve. --The number of Honorary Members (c0n- stituted such by the payment of fifty dollars, if clergymen, and one hundred d0llars,if lay men,( is 285.-The executive business of the Board is performed by committee, called the Prudential Committee, consisting of five persons, two Secretaries, a Treasurer and travelling Agents varying in number accor- ding to circumstances.
 Prudential C0mmittee.--H Hon. William Reed, Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D. Jeremiah Ev- arts, Esq. Hon. Samuel Hubbard IL. D. Rev. Warren Fay.
 The Prudential Committee give directions in respect to the more important cnrrespOn- dence; authorize expenditures examine the Treasurers accounts: appoint missionaries, assistant missionaries, and agents; assign their fields of labor; receive reports from Secretaries, Treasurer, missionaries, and gents: and once year make report to the
 
 general state and prospects of the missions.
 espondence.--Jeremiah Evarts, Esq. Corresponding Secretary, Rev. Rufus Ander- son Assistant Secretary.
 The correspondence foreign and domestic --the editing of the Missionary Herald-the preparation of the Annual Report, of Mis- siOnary papers, of Instructions to Missionaries, and of other public documents-the general superintendence of the missions abroad, and of Auxiliary Societies at home-the direc- ton of Agents-the obtaining of information, which shall lead to the enlargement of the existing missions, and the establishment of new missions-the occasional attendance at anniversaries of Auxiliaries--and the con stant, necessary, and desirable intercourse with friends of Missionaries from all parts of the country ;-render the duties of this de pertinent exceedingly laborious, and beyond the power of two men adequately to perform The Prudential Committee therefore obtained the services of MT. David Greene, for the past year, with special reference to the domestic correspondence, and the correspondence with missionaries among the Indians. MT. Greene is now on tour of inspection to the missions among the Indians, and particularly the mis- sions formerly under the care of the United Foreign Missionary Society, which had nev- CT yet been visited by any one connected with the executive of the Board. This tour will occupy about eight months, and will embrace a circuit of not less than 5000 miles.-When at the fartherest station westward, Mir. Greene will be more than half way from Boston to the Pacific Ocean.
 Ireasury.--Henry Hill, Esq. Treasurer. Wm. Ropes, Esq. Auditor.
 It may be proper to remark here,-as a
 AL. . -As. the contributions at the Monthly Concert, & the donations of individuals, should generally be remitted through the large channels open ed by the Auxiliary Societies,-that the de- tail of the business IS likely to become SO great, that the Treasurer will not have time for the more important duties of his depart ment. The correspondence in relation to the | pecuniary concerns of the Board, the pur- 1 chase of supplies for several stations, the di- 1 rections for sending the Missionary Herald | and the Reports of the Board to societies & ] doners, the sending of publications to the ] missionaries and to foreign correspondents, the preparation and correction in the press of the monthly list of donations, with various other duties,-devOlve on the Treasurer; and it is necessary that he be able to perform all of them.
 Agencies--The Rev. Geo. Cowles, men, toned in the last survey as Permanent Agent, after labOrious, faithful, and successful dis charge of the duties of his agency for about two, was obliged by i'll health. in the course of the past year, to retire from his office.
 The Rev. Richard Brown, at the recom- mendation and with the cordial appreciation of many clergymen in the vicinity of Pitts burgh, Pa., where he has been employed for the year past. has been appointed Permanent Agent for that part of the country.
 Other agents are employed, as they can be obtained, or are demanded. to organize new Associations and Auxiliaries, or to visit and encourage those which have heretofore been organized.
 1t is expected that, during the present year, a sufficient number of agents will be obtaina- ble to visit many of the Auxiliaries in New England. and considerably to extend the or ganization of Associations in New York and other Middle States. From almost every section of the country, their aid is solicited: and wherever they have labored. the intelli- gent and benevolent have been forward to express high opinion of their good influence, as well in regard to religion in general, as to mission in particular.
 Associations and Auriliaries. little ! more than four years past, that is, since the proposal of plan for Systematic Charity in 1 the Missionary Herald for 1928, Associations and Auxiliary Societies, in accordance with l this plan, have been organised to a considera-