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78 TH E HOBART HERALD. Untomtfy (0oarb of (RtQtntB. T H E Board begs leave to report as follow s: A t the last General Con vention, a resolution constituting this Board was unanimously adopted. The resolution, together with the report of the organization of the Board,will be found in the Journal of 1889. The following members constitute the Board: The Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Albany, Chairman, the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Minnesota, the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Tennessee, the Rev. Drs. Morgan D ix, David H . Green, William R. Huntington, E. N . Potter (Ad vocate), Professors H. Coppee and Henry Drisler, Messrs- Geo. W. Vander bilt, Spenser Trask, and Silas McBee. Rev. E. JST. Potter, Secretary; the Recording Secretary is Rev. Dr. Alexander Mackey-Smith, and the Cor responding Secretary, the Rev. Dr. Wm. M. Hughes. The resolution constituting the Board states, that the Board “ shall have two chief functions. First, to promote education under the auspices of the Church, and second, to receive and distribute all benefactions that may be entrusted to it. It shall report to the next General Convention a detailed scheme of organization and operation.” It will be observed that this resolution, while stating the general scope and purpose of the Board, and authorizing the Board to take measures for the furtherance of this scope and purpose, nevertheless limits its action, during the three subsequent years, to two specific objects : that is to say, first, to developing its own organization as a corporate body, and second, to reporting “ To the next General Convention a detailed scheme of organiza tion and operation.” Such scheme is, o f course, to be devised for the pur pose of efficient administration, in view of the functional powers entrusted to the Board by the enacting resolution. In pursuance of these two specific obligations, the Board having organ ized, proceeded to secure the certificate of incorporation duly granted, re corded and published, further reference to which is made in the note affixed to this report. In fulfilling the second of the two specific measures to which the action of the Board thus constituted was limited during the three years following the General Convention of 1889, the Board took immediate measures to secure such information as would enable i t to act w ith knowledge and pru
