or will not, make any election of members in the board of Trustees.-2. If an election be determined on, the day on which it shall take place shall be specified, and shall not be within less than two days of the time at which such an election shall be decided on.-3. When the day of election arrives, the Assembly shall ascertain what vacancies in the number of the eighteen Trustees incorporated, have taken place by death or otherwise; and shall first proceed to choose other members in their places. When this is accomplished, they shall proceed to the trial whether they will elect any, and if any, how many of that third of the number of the Trustees which by law they are permitted to change, in the following manner: viz. The list of the Trustees shall be taken, and a vote be had for a person to fill the place of him who is first on the list. In voting for a person to fill said place, the vote may be given either for the person who has before filled it, or for any other person: if the majority of votes shall be given for the person who has before filled it, he shall continue in office; if the majority of votes shall be given for another person, this person is a trustee, duly chosen in place of the former. In the same form the Assembly shall proceed with the list, till they have either changed one-third of the trustees, (always including in the third those who have been elected by the sitting Assembly to supply the places that become vacant by death or otherwise,) or by going through the list, shall determine that no further alterations shall be made.-Vol. I. p. 252.

Sect. 3. The mode of intercourse between the Assembly and their Trustees determined on, in

1801.

The committee appointed to meet a committee of the Board of Trustees of the Assembly, to digest and prepare a regular and stated mode of intercourse between the Assembly and the trustees, made a report; which was read and approved as follows: viz. "That the management, and dispo sal of all monies, goods, chattels, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all other estate whatever, committed to their care and trust, by the General Assembly, is invested in the said trustees; unless where special instructions for the management and disposal thereof, shall be given by the General Assembly in writing under the hand of their clerk, in which case, the corporation is to act according to said instructions:

That an exact state of the account of the Trustees is to be exhibited by their Treasurer to the General Assembly, once in every year: Whereupon it is recommended,

1. That this state of the accounts, be laid be fore the General Assembly as early in their ses sions as possible; in order that the General As sembly may know what appropriations it may be in their power to make, or what instructions to give to their Trustees, respecting the monies in

hand.

2. That when any appropriations are made by the General Assembly, a copy of their minute for that purpose, signed by the Clerk, shall be transmitted to the Trustees, and shall be their warrant for the payment of any monies thus appropriated.

3. That when any measures are taken, or any resolutions adopted, by the General Assembly or the Board of Trustees, which it concerns the other to be acquainted with, due information of the same shall be given, as soon as possible to the other.-Vol. I. p. 270.

Sect. 4. Resolved, That the Trustees of this Assembly be directed to receive and hold, for the use of the Theological Seminary, the transfers which have been made, or shall be made, of property bequeathed to the Seminary.-1814. Vol. III. p. 157.

See Chap. IV. Sect. 5 and 6, of this Part.

PART VII.

OF MISSIONS.

CHAPTER I.

OF DOMESTIC MISSIONS.

Sect. 1. A standing Committee of Missions appointed, in 1802.

THE Assembly, pursuant to the report of a

committee,

"Resolved, That a committee be chosen annually by the General Assembly, to be denominated The standing Committee of Missions;' that this committee shall consist of seven members, of whom four shall be clergymen and three laymen; that a majority of this committee shall be a quorum to do business; that it shall be the duty of this committee to collect, during the recess of the Assembly,

all the information in their power relative to the concerns of missions and missionaries, to digest this information, and to report thereon at each meeting of the Assembly; to designate the places where, and specify the periods during which, the missionaries should be employed; to correspond with them if necessary, and with all other persons on missionary business; to nominate missionaries to the Assembly, and report the number which the funds will permit to be employed; to hear the reports of missionaries, make a statement thereon to the Assembly relative to the diligence, fidelity, and success of the missionaries, the sum due to each, and such parts of their reports as it may be supposed the Assembly would wish to hear in detail; to ascertain annually whether any money remains with the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, which ought to be used for missionary purposes, agreeably to the last will of James Lesley deceased; that they also engage a suitable person annually to preach a missionary sermon, on the Monday evening next after the opening of the Assembly, at which a collection shall be made for the support of missions; and superintend, generally, under the direction of the Assembly, the missionary business.

Resolved, That though this standing committee shall be elected annually, yet each committee shall continue in office till the end of the sessions of that General Assembly which succeeds the one by whom said committee was appointed.

Resolved, That this standing committee of missions, in addition to the duties above specified, shall be, and they are hereby, empowered, to direct the