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Excerpt from Minutes of the Sixty-Third Annual Meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina: Held in Elizabeth City, N. C., December 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, 1893 1. The Baptist State Convention shall be composed of three male representatives from each white Association in the State in fellowship with us, or one annual male representative appointed by the churches for every ten dollars contributed to its funds: Provided, that no church shall have more than ten representatives, and of such male life members as have been made so by the payment of thirty dollars at any one time to the Treasurer for the objects of the Convention. No one shall be a member of the Convention who is not a member in good standing of a Baptist church in fellowship with us, and no other life members shall be made. 2. The primary objects of the Convention shall be to encourage and support Wake Forest College; to educate young men called of God to the ministry, and approved by the churches to which they belong; to encourage education among all the people of the State; to support the gospel in all destitute sections of the State and of the Southern Baptist Convention; to send the gospel to the nations that have it not; to encourage the distribution and study of the Bible and a sound religious literature; to assist Baptist churches in the erection of suitable houses of worship; to encourage the proper care of indigent orphan children and destitute and aged ministers of the gospel, and to co-operate with the Southern Baptist Convention in all its departments of labor. 3. The Convention shall meet annually, on Thursday night after the first Sunday in December, 4. The officers of the Convention shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary and an Assistant, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, an Auditor, and five Trustees, all of whom, except the Trustees, who shall serve during the pleasure of the Convention, shall be elected annually. 5. The President shall preside and enforce order in accordance with Dr. Hell's Parliamentary Practice. One of the Vice-Presidents shall preside in the absence of the President. 6. The Recording Secretary and his Assistant shall record the proceedings, collect and preserve statistics of the denomination, and publish and distribute the Minutes. 7. The Treasurer shall receive all funds represented in the Convention; make public acknowledgment of the same each week through the Biblical Recorder; give his bond to the Trustees; forward, at least once a month, all contributions to their destination; at every meeting of the Convention make a full report of his receipts and disbursements, and, on retiring from his office, turn over to his successor all moneys, papers and books belonging thereto. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.