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      the QUARTERLY MEETING of PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS , in the district of MANCHESTER , was held at Bury , in the chapel or the Rev . Mr . Allard , on Good Friday , April ii » i 8 n « The service was introduced by the Rev . Mr . Davies ., and the sernwh preached by the Rev . James

      Hawkes . The Rev . Mr . Grundy was chteen Mr . Davies ' s supporter at the next meeting , which is tv be at Hyde . Fifteen lay gentlemen and fourteen ministers dined together . The only sentiment given from the chair was , 4 < Religions liberty all over the world . " Manchester , May i % 9 1811 . W . J .

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      RESOLUTIONS agreed to by several Ministers , resident in Lancashire and Cheshire . — J . That the establishment of a Society , k this extensive and populous district , for the circulation of Tracts favourable to the cause of genuine Christianity , and the practice of virtue , would be productive of the most beneficial effects .

      II . That such a society be established under the denomination of the Manchester Unitarian Tract Society ; the term Unitarian being understood to denote , the worshippers of the One God , the Father , only . III . That each member shall pay the sum of five shillings on his admission , and shall receive an allotment of books

      ft proportion to the amount of his annual subscription . A subscriber often shillings per annum , shall receive an , allotment to such an amount as the committee meeting in June , shall adjudge to hiat . A subscriber of twenty shillings

      Per annum , shall be entitled to double toe amount ; and a subscriber of five shillings to half the amount ; below which no subscriptions are admissible . A subscriber of five pounds at any pne time , shall be considered a member for life , and entitled to the same allotment

      * san annual subscriber often shillings . IV . That a general annual meeting f the subscribers shall be holden in Cmsi-Street Chapel-Room , Manchester , •« the day after the Christmas Quarterly meeting of Presbyterian Ministers , V . That all the ministers who are ^ pscrib crs to to * society , and one

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      member of each congregation , shall constitute a Committee . VI . That the committee shall always meet on the day after the annual provincial meeting of ministers , and at other limes when it may appear expedient to the secretary and two other members td call them together .

      VII . That ten of the committee present at the annual meeting , and six at any other meeting , exclusive of the Secretary , shall be competent to the transaction of the business of the Society . ^ VIII , That the subscriptions be considered as commencing on the ist of January in each year , and be paid into the hands of the secretary , before the orders for books are complied with .

      Ministers are requested to collect the subscriptions of the members in their respective congregations . All orders to the secretary must be post paid . IX . Every member may at any time pui chase any number of Tracts , at the price marked in the society ' s Catalogue , by applying to the secretary , and paying him the money when the order

      given . X . That a list of the members , and a catalogue of the books with their prices , shall be annually printed in as cheap a form as possible , and sent to every subscriber . ...

      XI . That these resolutions be printed , and a copy sent to each associated Presbyterian minister in this district , requesting his union with the Society , and his exertions in his own congregation to procure subscribers and friends to the

      institution . XII . That John Grundy , Ardwick Green , Manchester , be appointed Trea ~ surer and Secretary to the society for the present year , i 8 ii . April 6 , i 8 n . —

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      NOTICES . The ANNUAL ASSOCIATION of UNITARIAN MINISTERS in Un ; colnshire , Cambridgeshire , and the ad * joining counties , will be held at Son am * in Cambridgeshire , on Wednesday and Thursday , the x 7 th and xSth \> £ vjuljft Further Particulars in our next . c ? ' *? .

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      THE SOUTHERN UNITARtABI SOCIETY will hold its next Annual

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/63/