Whitehead replied that he left it optional with the Board; the same information was received from a Director who had a personal interview with Mr. Whitehead. In consequence of these communications, the Board, desirous of expressing the high sense they have of the unsolicited generosity of Mr. Whitehead, and of perpetuating in the institution the name of so distinguished a patron, passed the following resolution, viz.-" Resolved, That if the General Assembly approve, $2,500 of Mr. Whitehead's donation be applied to establish a Scholarship, to be called the Whitehead Scholarship."*

"Resolved, That it be recommended to the Assembly to add the following clause to the plan of the Seminary at the close of the 5th section of the 8th article, viz.— "And if any Congregation, Presbytery, Synod, or Association, shall found a Professorship, or Professorships, a Scholarship or Scholarships, or a Fund or Funds, such Professorships, Scholarships, or Funds, shall forever afterwards be called and known by such name as the body founding them shall give."

Signed by order of the Board,

ASHBEL GREEN, President.

JOHN MDOWELL, Secretary.

Philadelphia, May 28, 1818.

The following are legal forms of a bequest of personal property, and a devise of real estate to the Theological Seminary, viz.

IN CASES OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.

I give and bequeath to the Trustees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States

*On this article the Assembly unanimously passed the following resolution, viz. Resolved, That $2,500 of the liberal donation of Mr. Whitehead be appropriated to establish a Scholarship, to be called the Whitehead Scholarship."

This paragraph, by a unanimous vote of the Assembly has been added to the plan.

of America, and to their Successors and Assigns, the sum of

in the Bank of

or shares (or any other

personal property, as the case may be) to be applied to the use of the Theological Seminary of said Church, and now located at Princeton, in the state of New Jersey; or, to the support of students in indigent circumstances in said Seminary; or, to such other uses as the testator may think proper to express.

IN CASES OF REAL ESTATE.

1 give and devise to the Trustees, &c. (as above) all that tract or lot of land or tenement, messuage or other real estate, as the case may be, situate in, &c. for the use of, &c. (as above.)

The above forms may be used by a testator residing in the state of Pennsylvania, where the Trustees of the General Assembly have been incorporated; but in the other states of the union the following forms are recommended, viz.

IN CASES OF REAL ESTATE.

I give and devise unto A, B, & C, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs of such survivor, (describe the real estate,) for the use of, and in trust for, the the directors of the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, now located at Princeton, in the state of New Jersey.

IN CASES OF PERSONAL ESTATE.

I give and bequeath (as above, excepting instead of "the heirs of such survivor," say,) the executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor."

The Professors of the Seminary are—

Rev. Archibald Alexander, D. D. Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology.

* The testator may appoint but one or two trustees if he thinks proper.

Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D. Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government.

Five Scholarships have been founded, viz.

1. The

2. The

Scholarship, Both founded by an unScholarship, known individual, N.Y. J 3. The Lenox Scholarship, founded by Robert Lenox, Esquire, of New York.

4. The Whitehead Scholarship, founded by John Whitehead, esq. of Burke county, Georgia.

5. The Charleston Female Scholarship, founded by the Congregational and Presbyterian Female Association of Charleston, for assisting in the education of pious youth for the Gospel Ministry.

The Officers of the Board of Directors are

Ashbel Green, D. D. President.

John Woodhull, D. D. Vice-President.
John McDowell, Secretary.

REPORT

Of the Committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Treasurer of the Widows' Fund.-May 30th, 1818.

THE committe to whom were referred the Treasurer's Cash Account and Statement of the Widows' Fund-Report, That they find his Cash Account correct, and supported by proper vouchers, and that there was a balance in his hands, at the close of his annual account of $963 83

Your committee beg leave also to report, for the information of the Board, that, from the treasurer's statement, the following appears to be the present state of the funds, viz.

The number of annual contributors, eighteen.

$418 66

those of the present year,

The annual amount of contributions,

The amount of annual rates due, including

1380 58

199 25

39421 09

of interest,

1275 96

Interest due on arrears of annual rates,
Due on bond and public securities-of prin-
cipal,

[Note. From the interest stated as due by J. B. W. there will probably be a considerable deduction, when his account shall be finally settled.]

Annual interest on bonds and public secu

rities,

2365 26

This, with the rates of contributors, will make

the annual income,

2783 93

Neat balance, including interest, in favour of

the fund,

41133 47

Number of annuitants at present on the fund,

of whom eleven are widows-seventeen.

The annuities or yearly payments amount to 1457 30