The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-27
Presbyterian 20. 81 General Assem-.
SEVENTH DAY-THURsDAY.

The Assembly met al nine o'clock,
Thursday morning, and spent half an
hour in devotional exercises The min
utes of the sessions of the previous day
were read and approved.
The Moderator requested the Assembly
TO change the order of the day so that
the rcnort of the Board of Education
could be taken up, instead of the report
of the Board of Foreign Missions, the
Assistant Secretary of the former Board
being called away suddenly by the uneX-
pected death of Rev Dr.. Chester, the
Secretary. The request was granted
The report of the Board Of Education
not being quite ready, Rev. DR.. Steele,
by consent, presented the report of the
COMMITTEES on the report of the Board OF
Trustees of the Fund for Disabled Minis
ters, embodied in series of resolutions.
The resolutions express qualification on
the growing attachment of the church
and members to this cause expressing
pleasure that the wants of disabled min
isters, and widows and orphans of de
ceased ministers have been readily sup
Piled, and encouraging the friends of the
cause to renewed eXertions durin: HE
coming year. ,
Rev. DR.. Jones, Secretary Of the Board
of Trustees, was permitted to address the
| Assembly, during the course of which he
stated that from this fund relief to the
| amount of Sl7 $50 had been distributed
TO fifty-eight widows with children, for
ty-three ministers with families, and four
| families of orphans. in all some four hnn-
dred persons, a sum Of Si,570 greater than
in any precedngyear The Committees
report was adopted
Mr.. Patterson. from the Finance com
mittee, presented report approving the
report of the Treasurer of the General
Assembly The committee also made the
following nominations for the Board ol
Trustees: Rev. Alex Reed, in place OF
Rev. John Mcdowell. deceased; Rev. V
d. Reed, in place of Rev Mr.. Steele, de
ceased Rev. w. F. Schenck, d d., in
place of Rev. Steele Clark, ID. ID, de
ceased; Samuel Hood, ESQ, in place ot
Alexander Mitchell, NJ. d., deceased
The report was adopted, with the exceP
tion of the nominations, which were laid
over
Rev. DR. Montfort presented list ot
nominations for the trusteeships OF the
various Theological Seminaries. Rev
Dr. Wood, from the committee on Bills
and Overtures, reported on Overture No
-. from the Trustees of the CourtlanC
and Van Rensselaer, Memorial Institute
calling to the remembrance of the body
their right to elect one third of the BoarC
of Trustees of said Institute, annually
The committee recommend that the As
sembly delegate their rights tn the re
naming two-thirds of the present Boarc
of the Institute. Adopted.
Rev. ID. J. Waller presented the repor
of the committee OF the Report of thu
Board of Education. The Board repor
that the number of new candidates re
ceived during the year has been 81, ant
the whole number on the roll dnring tn,
wear 25l, of whom l52 have been in thei
Theological course, 40 in their Colleg
course. and % in their Academical course
The receipts for the past year in the funt
for candidates have been Si5 ,664 So
During the fiscal year appropriation
have been granted to thirteen Pare
chial Schools seven Academies, and fou
Colleges, which have an aggregate @
2,l43 students. The reports OF the Tres
surers of the several funds under the cor
troll of the Board, show balances on han
as follows: Ministerial Education Fund
sIs.3ls,53; General Education Fund. s3
495, 5,56; African Education Fund, 81 OBS
35 Total balance in hands of the Boart
s22, ,e56,41.
A lengthy discussion eusued and th
: report was finally adopted in the follow
ing form:
Rev. Mr.. Platt presented a memori:
from the Trustees of Asham Institut