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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 24.

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SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING

By G. W. Amadon; J. M. Aldrich

Of the Seventh-Day Adventist Pub. Association.
Pursuant to notice given in the Review, the seventh annual meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was held in Battle Creek, Mich., May 16, 1867. Present all the officers of the Association. By request of the President, the Vice President, G. W. Amadon, was called to the chair. Meeting opened with prayer by Eld. James White. The roll was then called. Members present, 46, representing 110 shares. Minutes of last meeting read and approved. The Treasurer’s report being in order, the following report with the Auditor’s certificate attached was read and approved.

TREASURER’S REPORT.

Cash on hand May 1, 1866, $2279,61

RECEIVED

On Review and Herald, $6675,32
“ Youth’s Instructor, 647,15
“ Office Sales, 2606,40
“ Accounts and Deposits, 64922,07
“ Donations, 2440,11
“ Shares, 330,00
“ Job Work, 2033,96
“ Mich. Conf. Fund, 4813,53
“ General Conf. Fund, 2218,46
$86776,00
Total, $89055,61

PAID OUT

On Deposit, $66010,53
“ Paper, Books, &c., 4593,31
“ Office Labor, 6819,83
“ Materials and Office Fixtures, 1637,91
“ Wood and Incidentals, 792,98
“ Real Estate, 365,55
“ Mich. Conf. Fund, 3569,81
“ Gen. Conf. Fund, 3625,79
Total, $87415,71
Cash on hand to balance, May 1, 1867, $1639,90

INVENTORY.

Total value of the property of the Association as per invoice, $30830,37
Amt. due Assoc’n. on Book acct., 17946,61
Cash on hand, May 1, 1867, 1639,90
$50416,88
Association owes as follows:
On Notes, $3235,00
“ Deposits, 10426,45
“ General Conf. Fund, 632,92
“ Mich. Conf. Fund, 3453,90
$17748,27
Assets after all debts are paid, $32668,61
E. S. Walker, Treasurer.

AUDITOR’S CERTIFICATE.

I hereby certify that I have carefully examined the books and accounts of the S. D. A. Publishing Association, and find them correctly kept; and that the above Report of the Treasurer shows a correct statement of the financial condition of the Association, according to my best knowledge and belief.
Given this 14th day of May, A. D. 1867.
I. D. Van Horn, Auditor.
The general business of the Association was then introduced by the Secretary, in a written statement of the business to come before the meeting, viz.:
  1. Election of Officers.
  2. Election of Editors.
  3. Compensation of Auditor.
  4. Salaries of President, Editors, Secretary, and Treasurer.
  5. Amendment of Constitution as proposed in Review when notice of the meeting was given.
Business was then called up by written resolutions for discussion and action.
On motion of J. N. Loughborough it was
Resolved, That we nominate all the officers at one balloting.
The following persons were then duly nominated and elected to fill the offices of the Association for the ensuing year, viz.: For President, J. M. Aldrich; Vice President, G. W. Amadon; Secretary, E. S. Walker; Auditor, D. M. Canright; Committee on Publication, U. Smith, J. M. Aldrich, and J. N. Loughborough.
On motion of J. H. Waggoner,
Resolved, That Uriah Smith be elected Editor of the Review. Also, by the same, Resolved, That Geo. W. Amadon be elected as Editor of the Youth’s Instructor.
On motion of J. N. Andrews,
Resolved, That the Association pay the President, and Editor of the Review $18.00 per week for their services the coming year.
Resolved, That the Secretary, Treasurer, and Editor of the Youth’s Instructor receive such sums as shall be decided by the Trustees to be adequate to their labors.
Resolved, That the Auditor be paid $12.00 per week for the time spent in Auditing the Accounts of the Association.
On motion of J. N. Loughborough,
Resolved, That Art. xii, Sec. 1, be amended as heretofore proposed in Review, so as to read as follows:
“Art. xii, Sec. 1. These by-laws may be amended, repealed, or added to, at any meeting of the Association, by a vote of three-fourths of the members present.”
Bro. Loughborough then proposed the following additional amendments, viz.:
Art. ii, Sec. 1. After the word “Trustees,” in the fifth line, insert, “and they shall have the general supervision and management of all the affairs of the Association.”
Sec. 2. After the word “chairman,” in the third line of the section, strike out the remainder of the section.
Sec. 5. Strike out Section 5.
Sec. 8. In next to the last line of Sec. 8 strike out the word “semi.”
Art. ix, Sec. 9, strike out all after the first line, and insert “certified by the elder or clerk of the church to which such person belongs, and in case the person desiring to vote by proxy is not a member of any regularly organized church, then an acknowledgment of the aforesaid writing before any Seventh-day Adventist minister in good standing with the body, or before any Justice of the Peace shall be sufficient to qualify the member to whom said writing is sent, or given, to vote as proxy.”
Art. VII, amend by adding Sec. 2 as follows: “A majority of the Trustees convened according to Art. V, Sec. 4, shall constitute a quorum.”
Art. V, amend by adding Sec. 4. A meeting of the Trustees may be called at any time by a written notice signed by the President, or by two of the Trustees, and actually served upon such Trustees as are accessible, provided always that a majority of the board are notified.
Art. II, between Secs. 11 and 12, insert the following section: “The Trustees of this Association for the time being shall have power to fill any vacancy which may happen in their board, by death, resignation, or otherwise, for the remainder of the current year.”
On motion of U. Smith,
Resolved, That the amendments be adopted as proposed.
The following resolution respecting the Youth’s Instructor was then passed:
Whereas, We have been requested by the Gen. Conference to issue the Instructor once in two weeks, and
Whereas, We are satisfied that its semi-monthly issue is demanded, therefore
Resolved, That as soon as practicable the Instructor shall be issued every alternate week.
Resolved, That the price of the Semi-monthly Youth’s Instructor be 50 cts. per year.
On motion of J. N. Andrews,
Resolved, That we express our approval of the recent enlargement of the Review, and our decided conviction that a further enlargement is demanded to meet the wants of the cause.
Resolved, That we invite the free-will offerings of our brethren every where to meet the increased expenses of the Review, and the issuing of the Instructor once in two weeks.
Resolved, That a form of request to the Publishing Association be inserted as standing matter in the publication department of the Review.
Meeting adjourned to the call of the Trustees.
G. W. AMADON, Vice President.
J. M. ALDRICH, Secretary.