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Sundry reports from committees were made
and disposed of; among the rest report from
the committee on Slavery, which states that
eleven Annual Conferences have expressed a
desire to have the word white," as it occurs
in the several parts Of the discipline, stricken
out, &c. The report closes with recommen-
dation that the Conference adopt the follow
ing:


Resolved, That the practice Of buying or
selling men, women, or children, with the in
tention Of enslaving them or holding them in
involuntary slavery. is, in the judgment Of this
General Conference, an offence condemned by
the word of GoD.


The resolution was laid on the table.


The unfinished business oi yesterday, being
the resolution Of The Rev. c. Springer, that
each Circuit and Station should be entitled to
one lay delegate to each minister, who may be
entitled TO a seat in the Annual Conference,
whether that minister be an itinerant, super
annuated, or supernumerary, if he sits as a
minister from that circuit.


After much discussion, the previous gues-
ton was moved and sustained, and the main
question put and lost--ayes 81, noes 29.


Rev. J. G. Whitefeld offered resolution
making such alterations in the Discipline as
should legalize the appointment of alternaies
to serve in the absence Of their principals
passed.