NOTICE.

The Stated Clerk of the General Assembly would respectfully call the attention of the Presbyteries, and especially of their Stated Clerks, to their annual Statistical Reports to the General Assembly. They are again urgently requested, to make them out in the exact number of columns of the preceding printed reports, and in exactly the same order. Inattention to this has cost the Stated Clerk of the Assembly hours, and days of labour to prepare many of the reports for the press. A number of the Presbyteries, as will be seen by the preceding tables, have not given the post-office address of their members. By this omission the value of these tables is much lessened; and the Stated Clerk of the Assembly, in many instances, knows not how to direct the Minutes to those entitled to them. Some of the reports are also written in such a careless hand, that neither the Stated Clerk of the Assembly, nor the printer, has been able satisfactorily to make out some names of ministers and places. About one-half of the reports of this year were not added. This imposes a very serious labour on the Stated Clerk of the Assembly. And a number of the reports are not signed by the Stated Clerks; so that in the list of Stated Clerks in the Summary Table, the name of the Stated Clerk, as reported last year, is given. The Synods are informed that there is a great deficiency in sending Synodical reports-only six have been received this year.

For the direction of Stated Clerks of Presbyteries, a form of report to the General Assembly is added. To the names of ministers, annex P. for pastor, S. S. for stated supply, W., C. for without charge, Miss. for Missionary, Ag. for Agent, Pres. for President, Prof. for Professor, and Chap. for Chaplain; and let the names of all ministers be included under one of these heads. To the names of churches, add P. to those that have pastors, S. S. to those that have stated supplies, and V. to those that are vacant. As far as practicable, place the church opposite to the name of its pastor or stated supply; give the names of Licentiates, and the number of Candidates without name, as in the preceding printed reports.

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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

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AN APPENDIX.

A. D. 1838.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY THE STATED CLERK OF THE ASSEMBLY.
PRINTED BY LYDIA R. BAILEY, 26 NORTH FIFTH STREET.

1838.

THE Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, the REV. JOHN M'DOWELL, D.D., resides at No. 126 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia.

The Treasurer of the Trustees of the General Assembly is MR. MATTHEW NEWKIRK, whose address is No. 280 Market Street, Philadelphia.

The Corresponding Secretary and General Agent of the Board of Missions is the REV. WILLIAM A. M'DOWELL, D. D., whose Office is at No. 29 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.

The Treasurer of the Board of Missions is MR. WILLIAM NASSAU, SEN'R., who resides at No. 281 Market Street, Philadelphia.

The Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Education is the REV. FRANCIS M'FARLAND, whose Office is at No. 29 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.

The Treasurer of the Board of Education is MR. JOSEPH B. MITCHELL, whose address is Mechanics' Bank, No. 10 South Third Street, Philadelphia.

The Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions is WALTER LOWRIE, ESQ., whose Office is No. 247 Broadway, New York.

The Treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions is MR. JAMES PATON, whose Office is No. 247 Broadway, New York.

MINUTES.

THE General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States of America, met agreeably to appointment, in the Seventh Presbyterian Church, in the City of Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 17th day of May, A. D. 1838, at 11 o'clock, A. M.; and was opened with a sermon by the Rev. David Elliott, D. D., the Moderator of the last Assembly, from Isaiah, 60, 1. "Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." After the sermon, the Moderator gave notice that as soon as the benediction was pronounced, he would take the chair, and proceed to the organization of the Assembly. The benediction being pronounced, the Moderator took the chair, and having opened the meeting with prayer, called upon the Permanent Clerk to report the roll.

The Rev. William Patton, a member of the Third Presbytery of New York, rose, and asked leave to offer certain resolutions which he held in his hand. The Moderator declared the request at that time to be out of order, as the first business was the report of the Clerks.*

Dr. Patton appealed from the decision. The Moderator declared the appeal, for the reason already stated, to be at that time out of order. Dr. Patton stated that the resolutions related to the formation of the roll, and began to read the same: but being called to order, took his seat.

The Permanent Clerk, from the Standing Committee of Commissions, reported that the following persons, present, have been duly appointed and are enrolled as Commissioners to this General Assembly, and laid their commissions on the table, viz.

* See Form of Government, Chap. XII. Sec. 7.

Martin L. Mapes,
Norman Judson,
Aaron Raymond,
John Owen,

+ A figure prefixed to the name of a member, shows that he was not enrolled by the Committee of Commissions in their report at the organization of the Assembly, but was enrolled and took his seat, subsequently to the organization, on that day of the sessions designated by the figure.