The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-14

conferences, Adherng by 4 vots Of majority te
the Methodist Episeapal Church provided also
that this rule phall apply only to societies. sta
lions, and conferences bordering on the - Of
division, and not to interior charges, whiek Shall
in all cases, be left to the care of that church
within whose territory they are Situated.
g. That ministers, local and travelling, of every
grade and office, ia the Methodist Episcopal
Church, may, as they prefer, remain in that
church, or, without blame, attach themselves TO
the Church South.
Resolved BY the delegates of all the annual
conferences in general conference assembled,
That we recommend TO all the annual confer
ences, at their first approaching sessions, to au-
thorixe change Of the sixth restrictive article,
so that the first clause shall read thus "Ihey
shall not appropriate the produce OF the Book
Concern, nor of the chartered fund, TO any other
purpose other than for the benefit or the travel
ing, supernumerary, superannuated, and WORKOUT
preachers their wives, widows and children, and
to such other purposes as may be determined
upon by vote of twO-thirds OF the members OF
the general conference. W a8i
4. That whenever the annual conference, by
a vote of three.tourths of all their members
voting on the third resolution, shall have con-
Cured in the Recommendation to alter the sixth
restrictive article the agents at New York and
Cincinnati shall, and they are hereby authorized
and directed, to deliver over to any authorized
agent or appointee of the Church South, should
one be organized, all notes and book accounts
against the ministers, church, members, or citi-
zeDs, within its boundaries, with authority to
collect the same for the sole use of the South
ern Church; and that said agents also convey to
aforesaid agent or appointee OF the South, all
the real estate, and assign to him all the property
including presses, stock and all right and inter-
est connected with the printing establishments
at Charleston, Richmond, and Nashville. which
now belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
s. That when the annual conferences shall
have approved the aforesaid change in the sixth
restrictive article, there shall be transferred to
the above agent for the Southern Church 80
much of the capital and produce of the Method
list Book Concern rs will, with the notes, book
accounts, presses, &c., mentioned in the last
resolution, bear the same proportion to the
whole property of said Concern, that the travel
ing preachers in the Southern Church shall
bear to all the travelling ministers OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church. The division to
be made on the basis of the number of travel
ing preachers in the forthcoming minutes
6. That the above transfer shall be in the
form of annual payments of $4,000 per an
mum, and specifically in stock Of the Book Con-
Germ, and 10 Southern notes and accounts due
the establishment, and accruing as the fret
transfer mentioned above; and until the pay
ments are made, the Southern Church shall share
in all the net profits of the Book Concern, in the
proportion that the amount due them, or in ar
rears, bears to all the property Of the Concern
7. That Nathan Bangs, George Peck, and
James B. Finley be, and they are hereby ap-
1T. s.x nnrt tu,sft
the same number of commissioners, appointed
by the Southern organization, Should one be
formed) to estimate the amounts which will
fall due to the South by the preceding rule,
and to have full power to carry into effect the
whole arrangements proposed with regard to
the division of property, should the separation
take place. And if by any means vacancy
occurs in this board of commissioners, the book
committee at New York shall fiji said vacacy
8. That, whenever agents of the Southern
Church are clothed with legal authority or cor
porate power, to act in the premises, the agents
at New York are hereby authorized and direc-
ted to act in concert with said Southern agents.
80 MS to give the provisions Of these resolutions
legally binding force.
8. That all the property of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in Westinghouse parson-
ages, colleges, schools, conference funds, ceme-
teries, and of every kind, within the limits of
the Southern organization, shall be forever free
from any claim set up on the part OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church, so far rs this reso-
luton can be of force in the premises
10. That the Church so formed in the South
shall have common right to use all the copy
rights in possession of the Book Concerns at
New York and Cincinnati, at the time Of the
settlement by the commissioners.
IA. That the book agents at New York be
directed TO make such compensation to the con-
ference South, for their dividend from the char
tered fund, as the commissioners above provided
for shall agree upon.
IL. That the bishops be respectfully request
ed to lay that part of this report, requiring the
action of the annual conferences before them
as soon as possible, beginning with the New
York conference
The compliments further allege that the said
general conference had full and competent power
and authority to adopt the resolutions, each and
all of them, and that the same became of binding
force and validity and that in pursuance of said
resolutions, such proceedings were afterwards
had in the several annual conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in the slavehoding
States, in general convention assembled, by
delegates elected on the basis of the resolutions
VI bno Rcucidi VI lOtf,J NJ JouiSNilit,
Kentucky. On the LIST day of May, lS45, the
following resolution was adopted, after mature
and deliberate consideration:
BE IL resolved by the delegates of the several
annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the saveholding States, in general
convention assembled, That it is right, expe-
dent, and necessary to erect the annual confer
ences represented in this convention into dis
tinct ecclesiastical connection, separate from the
jurisdiction of the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, as at present con-
sttuted and, accordingly, we, the Delegates OF
said annual conferences acting under the pro-
visiona plan Of separation adopted by the gen.
eral conference of l844, do solemny declare the
jurisdiction hitherto exercised over said annual
conferences, by the general conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, entirely dissolved /;
and that said annual conference shall be, and
they hereby are constituted separate eccle-
siastcal connection, under the provisional plan
of separation aforesaid, and based upon the dis
cipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, com
pretending the doctrines and entire moral, &C.
clessastical, and economical rules and regua
tons of said discipline. except only in so tar as