mand prompt and efficient measures to obtain funds for the completion of the building, and other objects relative to the interests of the Seminary.

2. That the Assembly appoint one or more agents, for the ensuing year, whose duty it shall be to solicit donations, and form societies to aid the funds of the institution, and that Drs. Green, Alexander, and Miller, be a committee to obtain such agent or agents, if practicable, as shall be qualified to carry into effect the object contemplated by the Assembly. And that said committee be invested with discretionary powers, as to the place or places, where the agent or agents shall be employed; also, that the said committee be authorized, to pay the agent or agents a reasonable compensation for their services, from the unappropriated funds of the Theological Seminary.

3. That the following persons be appointed Agents to solicit contributions, viz.

In the Presbytery of

Champlain, Rev. Ashbel Parmelee,

Geneva, Cayuga, and Onondaga, Rev. John Smith, and Comfort Williams,

Oneida, Rev. John Chester,

Albany, Rev. Benjamin H. Stanton,
Columbia, Rev. Nathaniel S. Prime,

Londonderry, Rev. Dariel Dana, D. D.

Long Island, Rev. Samuel Robertson,

Hudson, Rev. John Johnson, and Ezra Fisk,
New York, Rev. Henry R. Weed, and Alexander
McClelland,

Jersey, New Brunswick, Rev. Leverett I. F. Hun-
tington.

Newtown, Rev. John F. Clark.

Philadelphia, Rev. Eliphalet W. Gilbert, and Wil-
liam Neill, D. D.

New Castle, Rev. John E. Latta,
Huntington, Rev. James Galbraith,

Carlisle, Rev. George Duffield, and S. Boyer,
Baltimore, Thomas B. Balch, and Mr. John Coyle,

In the Presbytery of

Redstone, Grand River, Rev. William Spear,
Ohio, Rev. Matthew Brown, and Rev. E. Macurdy,
Hartford, Rev. Thomas E. Hughes,

Erie, Rev. Samuel Tait,

Washington, Rev. James Hoge,
Lancaster, Rev. James Culbertson,
Miami, Rev. Joshua L. Wilson,
Northumberland, Mr. Dunham,

South Carolina, Orange, Rev. James Hall, D. D.
Fayetteville, Rev. Colin M'Iver,
Harmony, Rev. Thomas Gouldin,
Concord, Rev. James Hall, D. D.
Hopewell, Rev. John Brown, D. D.
St. Laurence, Rev. Samuel F. Snowden,
Bath, Mr. David Higgins,

Richland, Rev. James Scott,

Mississippi, Rev. Sylvester Larned,

Tennessee, Rev. Gideon Blackburn,

Abingdon, Rev. Steven Bovell,

Louisville,

Transylvania,

Muhlenberg,

West Tennessee,

Rev. John T. Edgar, and
Rev. Nathan H. Hall,

State of North Carolina, Rev. John Witherspoon and Rev. William M'Dowell.

An overture from the Synod of Geneva, requesting the advice of the General Assembly relative to the establishment of an Academical and Theological Seminary, which the Synod propose instituting within their bounds, was brought in and read. After the subject had been discussed for some time, the following resolution was adopted, viz.

Resolved, That the Assembly are not prepared at present to give any opinion or advice on the subject of the overture from the Synod of Geneva, which contemplates the establishment of an Academical and Theological Se

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minary, believing the said Synod are the best judges of what may be their duty in this important business.

The business left unfinished on Saturday was resumed, viz. The Appeal of the Presbytery of Onondaga from a decision of the Synod of Geneva, relative to the restoration of the Rev. John Shepherd to the Gospel Ministry, who had been deposed by the association of Fairfield, Connecticut. After a considerable discussion of the subject, the following resolutions were adopted, viz.

Resolved, 1st. That the decision of the Synod of Geneva, relative to the restoration of the Rev. John Shepherd to the office of the Gospel Ministry, so far as it censures the restoration of said Shepherd, who was deposed by a judicatory of the Church of Christ, in fellowship with us, be and hereby is confirmed; because it did not appear from the records of the Presbytery of Onondaga, that the said restoration took place, in consequence of any confession of the alledged crime for which the said Shepherd was deposed; or of any profession of penitence for it; or of any conference with the Judicatory which deposed him.

2. That the Appeal of the Presbytery of Onondaga, so far as it relates to the rescinding of their vote to restore the Rev. John Shepherd, be, and hereby is sustained, on the second reason of appeal, and upon that alone; because the Assembly judges, that a minister of the Gospel, when once restored by presbyterial authority, cannot be deprived of his office, except it be by a new process and con

viction.

Dr. Green made a communication to the Assembly in relation to the widow's fund, and it was resolved that the communication be printed in the Appendix to the printed Extracts from the minutes of this Assembly.(See Appendix.)

Resolved, That the records of the Synod of Virginia be approved, except their censure of the Presbytery of Lexington for allowing an appeal from their decision di

rectly to the Assembly, without noticing the supposed irregularity of such appeal.

The committee appointed by the last Assembly to review the forms of process, and to report to the Assembly such alterations and additions as the committee may consider necessary, reported that they had made some progress in the business.

The following persons were chosen and appointed a Board of Missions for the ensuing year, viz.

Of Philadelphia and its vicinity, the Rev. Drs. Green, Alexander, Wilson, Miller, Janeway, and Neill; the Rev. Messrs. Potts and Skinner, and Messrs. Boudinot, Connelly, Haslett, R. Smith, Ralston, and S. Bayard. Of New York, Rev. Dr. Romeyn, and Messrs. Lenox, Rodgers, Bethune, Caldwell, and Lewis.

Of the Synod of Geneva, Rev. D. Higgins.

of Albany, Rev. Jonas Coe, D. D.

of N. York, and N. Jersey, Rev. James
Richards, D. D.

of Philadelphia, Rev. R. Cathcart, D. D.
of Pittsburg, Rev. Elisha Macurdy.
of Kentucky, Rev. James Blythe, D. D.
of Ohio, Rev. Robert G. Wilson.
of North Carolina, Rev. James Hall,D.D.
of South Carolina and Georgia, Rev. An-
drew Flinn, D. D.

of Tennessee, Rev. Gideon Blackburn.

Resolved, That the General Assembly recommend, and they do hereby recommend to the Pastors and Sessions of the different churches under their care, to assemble, as often as they may deem necessary during the year, the baptized children, with their parents, to recommend said children, in prayer, to God, explain to them the nature and obligations of their baptism, and the relation which they sustain to the Church.

The following extract from the minutes of the Presbytery of Oneida, was overtured, viz.

"Ordered, That our commissioners to the next Gene ral Assembly be instructed to request the Assembly to permit this Presbytery to manage their own missionary concerns."

On motion,

Resolved, That the Presbytery of Oneida be referred to the plan proposed by the Board of Missions.

The General Assembly, taking into consideration the great number of delegates that compose their body, and believing that a diminution of the number will contribute to equalize the representation from all our Presbyteries, as well as to facilitate the dispatch of business, and lessen the expense incurred by the commissioners,

On motion,

Resolved, 1. That it be recommended to the Presby. teries to alter the ratio of representation, by substituting in chap. 11. sect. 2. the word nine for the word six; and the word eighteen in place of the word twelve.

2. That the Presbyteries be required to send up to the next General Assembly, their respective decisions on the question submitted to their consideration in the above resolution,

The committee appointed to examine the Records of the Synod of Tennessee, reported that they had not been forwarded.

/ The committee to which was referred the resolution on the subject of selling a slave, a member of the church, and which was directed to prepare a report to be adopted by the Assembly, expressing their opinion in general on the subject of slavery, reported, and their report being read, was unanimously adopted, and referred to the same committee for publication.

It is as follows, viz—

"The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, having taken into consideration the subject of SLAVERY, think proper to make known their sentiments upon it to the churches and people under their care.

"We consider the voluntary enslaving of one part of