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THE SEVENTH REPORT OF THE CITY OF TORONTO AUXILIARY BIBLB' SOCIETY, FOR 1835. WITH AN APPENDIX. TORONTO PlINTBD Foa TIIB BOCIBTY BY T. H. LAWBENCB. OVA.DIAN 61"1011; March, 1836. OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH .. FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. President-RIGHT HON. LOI1D BEXLEY. Vice.President •• 'night 800. and most Rev. Archhishop of Tuam. Right Han. Earl of Harrowby. Right Rev. Lord Btshop of Wmchester, Right Han. Earl of Glasgow. Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Salisbury. Right Han. Earl of Roden. Bon. and Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Lichfield Right Han. Earl of Goarord. and Ci)ventry. Right Bon. Viscount E.llnouth, K. C. B. Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Bristol. Right Han. Admiral Lord Gambeir, G. C. B. Right Rev. Lord Bishop ofCbester. Right Han. Lieut.-General Viscount LOrloll. Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Kildare. Right Hem. Viscount Mandeville. llight Rev. Lord Bishop of Derry. Right Han. Lord Caltborpe. Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Sodar and Man; Right Han. Lord Farnham. Kight Rev. Lord Bishop of Calcutta. Right Hon. Lord Barham. The very Rev. the Dean of Bristol. Right H,m. Lord Moullt Sanford. "rhe very Rf!v. the Dean of Salisbury. Ri/:ht Hon. Lord John Henley. His Grace the Duke of Bedford. Right lion. Lord Glenelg. .Most Noble ))arquis of Clu)Imolldeley. Right Han. Lord 'feignmouth. Right Han. Earl of Harwicke. Right Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. )light Hon. Earl SIlencer. Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland, Bart., M. P. Right Han. Earl of Romney. Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart. M. P. RiCbt Han. Earl of Chichester. Thomas Babington, Esquire. Treasurer-JoHN THORNTON, Esquire. Secretaries-Rev; A. BRANDRAM, A.M. late of Oriel College, Oxford. and Minister gf St. John the Baptist, Savoy, London; Rev. A. H. BROWNE, of Camber well. Accountant and Assistant Secretary-~lr. Joseph Tarn. A.ristant Foreign Secretary-Mr. John Jackson. Depositary-Mr. Richard Cockle . .·4.ccreditcd Agent. of the Society-James Thompson. West Indies; Rev. H. D. Leeves, A. M. Corfu; Benjamin Barker. Smyrna; Rev. Dr. Pinkerton, Frankfort; Professor Kiffer, Paris. Dome.tic Agent.-C. S. Dudley. Wm. Brackenbury, Wm. Acworth. OFFICERS OF THE TORONTO AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY. Patron-HIS EXCELLENCY Sm FRANCIS B. HEAD. President-THE HON. JOHN HENRl" DUNX. Vice.Presidents. Doctor Baldwin, IJesse Ketchum, Esq. ICharles C. Small, Esq. Doctor Morrison, Rev. Chas. Matthew&, George Monro, Esq. Robert Baldwin, Esq. Hon. Justice Sherwood, Captain PhiIlpottB, )ames E. Small, Esq. Rev. Dr. Harris, Rev. William Rintoul. Treasurer-PETER PATERSON, Esquire. Secretaries-Rev. W. T. LEACII, A.M., Edinburgh; Rev. W. M£RREFIBLD. Depositary-Mr. ROBERT CATncART. Committee-Messrs. J. Ewart, B. Turquand. W. Connell, P. Freeland. A. Hamilton, J. Rogers, A. McGlashen, J. H. Price, C. Daly, H. Carfrae, 'f. Carfrae, J. M. Murchison, AI. McLellan, J. Rose, W. Lapsley. LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. I. The designation of this Society .h.1I ho the BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. of which the sole object sholl be to encourage 0 wider circulation of the Holy Scripture. without note or comment: the only Copies in the Languages of the United Kingdom, to be circulated by the Society, shall be the authorised Version. II. This Society shall add it. endeavour. to those employed by other Socle. ties, for circulating the Scriptures through the British Dominion.; and shall also, according to its ability, extend its influence to other countries, whether Christian, Mahometan or Pagan. Ill. Each Subscriber of one guinea annually shall be a Member. IV. Each Subscriber of 10 guineas at one time, shall be a Member for Life. V. Each Subscriber of 5 guineas .nnually sholl be a Governor. VI. Each Subscriber of fifty pounds at one time, or who shall, by one addition.l payment, increase his original sUbscription to fifty pounds, shall b. a Governor for Life. VII. Governors shall be entitled to attend and vote at all meetings of tho Committee. VIII. An Executor, paying a bequest of fifty pounds. shall be Ii Member for Life; or of one hundred pounds, a Governor for Life. IX. A Committee shall be appointed to conduct the business of the Society. conSisting of thirty·six Laymen, six of whom .hall be Foreigners, resident in London, or its vicinity; half Ihe remainder shall be members of the Church of England, and the olher half members of other denominations of Christians. Twenty.seven of the above number, who shall have most frequently attended, ohall be eligible for re·election for the ensuing year. The Committee shall appoint all Officers, except the Treasurer, and call Special General Meetings, anel shall be charged with procuring for the Society Builahle Palronage, both British and Foreign. X. Each Member of the Sociely sholl be entitled, under the direction of the ~v,~:::!~~~~; ;0 ~urch~~'! Bibles and Testiiments at the Society's prices, which shall be as low as possible. XI. The Annual Meetings of lhe Society shall be held on the first Wednes. day in May, when the Treasurer and Committee shall be chosen, the Accounts presented. and the proceedings of the fore~oing year reported. XII. The President, ViCe· President, and Treasurer, shall be considered ex·officio Members of the Committee. XIII. Every Clergyman or Dissenting Minister, who is n member of lh. Soeiely, shall be entitled to attend and vole at all meetings of the Committee. XIV. The Secretaries, for the lime being, shall be considered as members of the Committee; but no other person deriving any emolument from the Society sholl have that privilege. XV. Al the General Meetings, and Meetings of the Committee, the Presi. dent, or, in his absence, the Vice. President first upon the list then preeent; and in the absence of all the Vice. Presidents. the Treasurer; and in his absence. such Member as shall be voted for that purpose. sholl preside al the meeling. XVI. The Committee shaU meet on the first Monday in every month, or oft~ner, if necessary. XVII. The Committee shall have the power of nominating such persons .s sball have rendered eesential service to the Society, eilher MEMBERS FOR LIFE. or GOVERNORS FOR LIFE. XVIII. The Committee shall also have the power of nominating HONORARY MEMBER. from among Foreigners who bave promoted the object of the Society. XIX. The whole of the Minules of every General MeetIng shan bo signed by the Cbairman. _v...... LAWS AND REGULATIONS OP -TUK CITY OF TORONTO AXUILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY. RULJII lst. This Society shall be denominated the "Cl'1'1( 011 TORONTO, U. C. BIBLE SOCIETY," having the same object in view as the British and Foreign Bible Society, viz. the circulation of the Bible without note or comment, to act in concert with the Parent Society, or separately, as circumstances may require. RULE 2nd. The Society shall consist of all who are disposed to promote the object of the institution, without regard to difference of religious sentiments. RULE 3rd. Every subscriber of Five Shillings annually, shall be considered a member as long as he pays his subscription. RULE 4th. A subscriber of Five Pounds shall be a member for life. Donations of any amount, small or great, will be thankfully received. RULE 5th. That the business of this Society shall be conducted by a President, Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, Secretaries, and a Committee consisting of fifteen other members, ten of which may be re.elected-five to form a quorum; and that all Ministers of the Gospel who are members of the Society, shall be entitled to a seat and to vote with the Committee. RULE 6th. The Committee shall meet on the second Mondays of February, May, August and November, or when called by thlt Chairman or any three of thlt Committee. RULE 7th. The Society shall meet annually, in the second week in February, in the City of Toronto; the day and bour to be fixed by the Committee, and advertised, at which meeting tbe CommitteCl' shall give an account of their transactions and funds. RULE 8th. E.very subscriber of One Pound Five Shilling" annu ally, shall be entitled to purcbase Bibles and Testaments to thlt amount of five pounds, at the reduced prices of tbe Society. RULE 9tb. Tbe Committec shall be empowered to sell the Serip tures, or to give them gratis. when they find well authenticated claims. They are to purcbase from the Parent Society to supply tbeir wants. and if tbere are any overplus funds to spare, to remit' the same to tbe Parent Society, for the purpose of supplying other nations with the W Old of God. RULE lOtb. No alterations shall be made in tbese IIl"8. but at III General Meeting of the Society. ..... "i ...... AT the SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETJNG of the CITY OF TORONTO AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY, held in St. Andrew's Church, on the 10th ofF(~Lruary, 1836- Til E REV. DR. HARRIS, V. P., IN THE CHAIR: the MeetinG" having been opened with Prayer, and the Report of -the Co,~mittee read, the following RESOLUTIONS were una nimously adopted :- I. Moved by the Rev. 'V. l\IERREFIELD, seconded by lAs. H. PRICE, Esq. That tlte Report 1I0W read be adopted, and printed under the direction of the Committee. :1. Moved by Rev. A. STEWART, seconded by PETER PATERSON, Esq. That this Society acknowledges with gratitude the continued a.~si.t ance and cOOperation of the Parent Institulion. Ill. Moved by Rev. Mr. LEACII, seconded by Rev. Mr. EVANS- That this Meeting grat~fltlly acknoldedges the aid received from the Ladies' Bihlc Association, and also from those Branches which hat'e been successfully engaged in promotillg the designs of the Society, during the past year.