HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, MAY 10, 1826, AND ADOPTED BY THE United Domestic Missionary Society: TOGETHER WITH THE FOURTH REPORT OF THE LAST NAMED SOCIETY. PRESENTED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AT THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING, MAY 12 1826. With an Appendix. NEW-YORK. PRINTED BY D. FANSHAW, AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY HOUSE, No. 87 Nassau-street. 1826. CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. ARTICLE 1. This Society shall be denominated "THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY." ART. 2. The great object of this Society shall be to assist congregations that are unable to support the Gospel Ministry, and to send the Gospel to the destitute, within the United States. ART. 3. The officers of the Society shall be a President, VicePresidents, a Treasurer, an Auditor, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, and fifty Directors, who shall be annually appointed by the Society; and who, together with the Directors for life, shall constitute a Board, seven of whom shall be a quorum, any meeting regularly convened. at ART. 4. The Officers and Directors shall appoint an Executive Committee of thirteen, (including the Treasurer, the Corresponding Secretary, and the Recording Secretary,) residing in the City of New-York and its vicinity; seven of whom shall be a quorum, at any meeting regularly convened. This Committee shall have power to appoint its own meetings, form its own rules of business, and fill any vacancies in its own number which may occur during the year, and to convene special meetings of the Board or Society; shall appoint Missionaries, and instruct them as to the field and manner of their labours; shall have the disposal of the funds; shall create such agency or agencies for appointing Missionaries, and for other purposes, as the interests of the Institution may require; and shall make an Annual Report of their proceedings to the Society. ART. 5. The Treasurer shall give bonds annually to such amount as the Executive Committee shall think proper. ART. 6. Any person may become a member of this Society by contributing annually to its funds; thirty dollars paid at one time shall constitute a Member for life; and one hundred dollars paid at one time shall constitute a Director for life; and any person, on the payment of a sum, which, in addition to any previous contribution to the funds, shall amount to one hundred dollars, shall be a Director for life. An executor, on paying a legacy of two hundred and fifty dollars to the funds of this Society, shall be a Member for life; and the payment of a legacy of one thousand dollars shall constitute him a Director for life. 1 |