ceive the necessity of conforming to these Rules, exactly, as the neglect of them will subject you to almost certain failure in future applications for assistance.

Permit me to add, that the object which you have in view is one of great sacredness. Your relation to the Christian public places you, henceforth, in a conspicuous and highly responsible situation. May you be endowed with corresponding wisdom and grace; and be prepared, ultimately, to labor with great success in the vineyard of your divine Saviour! By order of the Board of Directors,

Secretary.

Commission and Instructions to the Agents of the Treasurer, for receiving and paying Grants.

To

The Rules of the American Education Society require, that the Treasurer take charge of all notes, given by young men under patronage, for appropriations made to them by the Parent Society, or by any of its Branches. For this purpose it is necessary, that suitable persons be appointed, as his Agents, to receive and pay the funds thus appropriated, and to take the notes for the same, agreeably to a Rule of the Society, which is subjoined, and to which you are specially referred.

It is the wish of the Treasurer, that each young man, on receiving a new appropriation, should take up his former note, and give a new note for the whole amount due.

You are hereby authorized and requested to act in this capacity. Upon receiving notice, from the Secretary of the Parent Society, of appropriations made to young men in , you will please draw for the money as directed by him, agreeably to a form, which is also subjoined, and pay it to the persons named in his communication, and take their notes for the same, as directed by the Rule abovementioned.

appropriated by the Board of Directors of the American Education Society, at their meeting (as advised by the Secretary) to in A- B—. Treasurer of the American Education Society.

To

Agent of the Treasurer.

FORM OF A BEQUEST.

ITEM. I do hereby give and bequeath to the American Education Society, the sum of

dollars, to be paid within months after my decease, and to be applied to the uses and purposes of that Society.

ACT OF INCORPORATION.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN,

An act to incorporate the American Education Society.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that William Phillips, Samuel Salisbury, Eliphalet Pearson, William Reed, Joshua Bates, Asa Eaton, Samuel H. Walley, and Aaron P. Cleveland, together with those who have associated, and who may hereafter associate with them, be and are hereby incorporated and made a body politic, by the name of THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY. And the Society aforesaid shall have perpetual succession, and may have a common Seal, which it shall be lawful for them to alter at pleasure; and may purchase and receive, by gift or devise, lands, tenements, and real estate of any kind, and the same hold in fee simple, or less estate, the annual income and profits whereof shall not exceed the value of ten thousand dollars. And the said Society is hereby enabled to take and receive subscriptions of charitably disposed persons, and may take any personal estate in succession; and all donations to the Society, either by subscription, legacy, or otherwise, (excepting such as shall be differently appropriated by the donors, or by a vote of the Society, agreeably to their Constitution,) shall make a part or be put into the capital stock of the Society, which shall be put out on interest on good security, or otherwise improved to the best advantage, and the income or profits applied to the purpose of aiding indigent young men of talents and hopeful piety in acquiring a learned and competent education for the Gospel Ministry.

Section 2. Be it further enacted, that the said Society may choose a President, Vice President, Clerk, Treasurer, and such other officers as they shall see fit; and may at their first meeting under this incorporation, by the vote of two thirds of the members present at said meeting, adopt such Constitution or system of Rules and By-laws, as they shall think necessary for the orderly conducting and executing the business of said Society, and for the most effectually securing the object of their institution; which Constitution or system of Rules and By-laws shall be for the government of said Society, and shall not be altered at any subsequent meeting, but in the manner therein pointed out: provided such Rules and By-laws be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.

Section 3. Be it further enacted, that the Society aforesaid may at all times under the name, style, and title aforesaid, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, appear, prosecute, and defend to final judgment and execution, and may appoint an Agent or Agents, to prosecute and defend suits with power of substitution; and it shall be lawful for the said Society to make sale of any estate or personal property, given or purchased, as aforesaid, or in any other way or right accruing to them in their corporate capacity, (unless that, which is given, be otherwise expressly ordered or appropriated by the donor,) and convey the same by deed or other legal instrument, duly executed; and when the property to be conveyed is real estate, under the hand of the Treasurer, and the Seal of the Society: provided that all moneys, arising from such sale, be applied to the same use to which the income thereof was before applied.

Section 4. Be it further enacted, that William Phillips, Esquire, be and hereby is authorized by notification, in any two of the newspapers printed in Boston, to appoint the time and place of the first meeting of said Society.

Approved, Dec. 4, 1816.

Copy examined by

A. BRADFORD, Secretary of Commonwealth.

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES,

AUXILIARY SOCIETIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE PARENT SOCIETY,
AUXILIARY SOCIETIES IN CONNECTION WITH BRANCHES,

APPENDIX,

Addresses delivered at the Anniversary of the Society,

Rev. Mr. Spaulding's Address,

Rev. Mr. Hoby's Address,

Rev. Mr. Holmes's Address,

Rev. Dr. Cox's Address,

Rev. Mr. Kirk's Address,

Rev. Dr. Skinner's Address,

Statistics of Colleges in the United States,

Statistics of Theological Seminaries in United States,

Comparative View of Colleges and Theological Seminaries and students in them,

with the population of the several States,

Summary Remarks,

Notice of Isaac Warren and Joseph Abbott, Esqs.

Views of Former Beneficiaries on Refunding,

Rule of the Directors about cancelling notes,

Forms of cancelling notes,

Communications respecting Revivals of Religion in Colleges,

Professor Goodrich's letter,

President Lord's letter,

Professor Hitchcock's letter,.

Professor Kellogg's letter,

President Bates's letter,

Extracts respecting revivals of religion in Jefferson, Washington, Western Re

serve, Marietta, and Danville Colleges, and the Seminary at Batticotta,
in Ceylon,

Notice of Rev. Dr. Wisner,

Forms used by the Society,
Act of Incorporation,

8888

Are at No. 52 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON.

Rooms of Presbyterian Education Society

Are at No. 114 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.

Rooms of Western Education Society

Are at No. 150 MAIN STREET, CINCINNATI.

FORM OF A BEQUEST.

ITEM.-I do hereby give and bequeath to the American Education Society, the sum of dollars, to be paid within months after my decease, and to be applied to the uses and purposes of that Society.

ITEM. I do hereby give and bequeath to the American Education Society, for the use and benefit of the Presbyterian Education Society, dollars, to be paid within months after

the sum of

my decease.

LIST OF OFFICERS.

Rev. WILLIAM COGSWELL, Secretary of the
American Education Society.

Mr. B. B. EDWARDS, Editor of the American
Quarterly Register.

HARDY ROPES, Esq. Treasurer.

Rooms, 52 Washington street, Boston.
Rev. WILLIAM PATTON, Sec'ry of the Presby-
terian Education Society.
OLIVER WILL.COx, Esq. Treasurer.
Rooms, 114 Nassau street, New York.
Rev. JOHN SPAULDING, Sec'rys of West.
Ed. Soc. Cincin-
Rev. ANSEL R. CLARK, nati, Ohio.
AUGUSTUS MOORE, Esq. Treasurer of do.
Rev. BENJAMIN TAPPAN, Secretary of the
Maine Branch, Augusta, Me.

Prof. SAMUEL P. NEWMAN, Treasurer of do.
Brunswick, Me.

Prof. CHARLES B. HADDUCK, Secretary of the
New Hampshire Branch, Hanover, N. H.
Rev. JOHN M. ELLIS, General Agent.
Hon. SAMUEL MORRIL, Treasurer of do. Con-

cord, N. H.

Rev. WILLIAM L. MATHEE, Secretary of the
North Western Brauch, Montpelier, Vt.
GEORGE W. ROOT, Esq. Treasurer of do. Mid-
dlebury, Vt.

Rev. ANSEL NASH, Secretary of the Connecti-
cut Branch, Wintonbury, Ct.
ELIPHALET TERRY, Esq. Treasurer of do.
Hartford, Ct.

| Rev.OTTO S. HOYT, Sec'y of the Utica Agency,
Utica, NY.

JOHN W. DOOLITTLE, Esq. Treasurer of do.
Utica, N. Y.

Rev. ALANSON SCOFIELD, Sec'y of the West-
ern Education Society, Auburn, N. Y.
JAMES S. SEYMOUR, Esq. Treasurer of do. Au-
burn, N. Y.

Rev. ANSEL R. CLARK, Sec'ry of the Western
Reserve Branch, Hudson, Ohio.
ANSON A. BREWSTER, Esq. Treasurer, Hud-

son.

Secretary of the Indiana Branch, Crawfordsville, Ind. Rev. JAMES THOMPSON, Treasurer, Crawfordsville.

Rev. TILLY H. BROWN, Treasurer, South Han

over.

Rev. JULIAN M. STURTEVANT, Secretary of
the Illinois Branch, Jacksonville, Ill.
JOHN P. WILKINSON, Esq. Treasurer of do.
Jacksonville.

Rev. JOHN W. IRWIN, Sec'ry of the East

Tennessee Agency, Maryville.

Rev. ISAAC ANDERSON, D. D. Treasurer of do.
Rev. JOHN W. IRWIN, Sec'ry of the West
Tennessee Agency, Maury County.
Maj. JOHN BROWN, Treasurer of do.

Rev. EDWIN F. HATFIELD, Sec'ry Central
Agency, Philadelphia, Pa.

GEORGE W. MCCLELLAND, Esq. Treas. of do.

It is in contemplation to enrich the next volume of the Register, commencing August, 1835, with one or more portraits of distin guished clergymen. Each likeness will be accompanied with a biographical notice. Our ability, however, to make these and other improvements, will depend very much on an increase of patronage to the publication, and the payment of sums already due. A list of the reformed ministers in France, accompanied with other French ecclesiastical statistics, will soon be inserted; also some interesting statistics respecting Great Britain. We have a large amount of materials on hand, which have been accumulating during the publication of the list of graduates.

The Register is published on the first days of August, November, February, and May. Each number will contain from 80 to 90 pages, making a volume of 320 or 340 pages, annually. A list of agents is inserted on the cover of each number. The work is put at the low price of one dollar and fifty cents, with the expectation that there will be a large subscription. On no other ground could it be supported. It will be sent gratuitously to all persons who give to the American Education Society $75 per annum, or the amount of a temporary scholarship.

LIST OF AGENTS.

HARDY ROPES, Esq. GENERAL AGENT,

No. 52 Washington Street, Boston.

MAINE. Horatio Isley, Bangor Theol. Sem. Rev. George Shepard, Hallowell. E. P. Hawes. Belfast. Thomas N. Lord, Brunswick. William Hyde, Portland. Rev. Wakefield Gale, Eastport. Rev. Daniel Kendrick, Edgecombe. Charles S. Buswell, Waterville College.

NEW HAMPSHIRE. Walker & Stearns. Portsmouth. Samuel Morril, Esq. Concord. Rev. Moses Gerould, New Alstead. Claudius B. Webster, Dartmouth College. Rev. Charles Walker, New Ipswich. Rev. Liba Conant, Northfeld. Rev. Bezaleel Smith, Rye.

VERMONT. Stephen R. Wright, Middlebury College. John E. Roberts, Vergennes. Rev. Jonas Foster, Putney. Benjamin Gould, University of Vermont. Burt

Seminary.

MASSACHUSETTS. Henry Whipple, Salem. Charles Whipple, Newburyport. George Waters, Theological Seminary, Andover. William B. Corbin, Phillips Academy, Andover. David S. Whitney, Northampton. Francis F. Sieg, Theol. Institution, Newton. David Andrews, Amherst College. Henry Gallup, Williams College. Rev. Thomas Noyes, Needham.

RHODE ISLAND. Samuel F. Dike. Brown University.

CONNECTICUT. Beach & Beckwith, Daniel Burgess & Co. Hartford, Willard M. Harding, Yale College. Cushing Eells, Conn. Theol Institute, East Windsor. Samuel C. Starr, Norwich city. Rev. Chauncey Wilcox, North Greenwich. Rev. Zolva Whitmore, North Gail ford. Rev. Wm. Ely, Mansfield.

NEW YORK. Oliver Willcox, Esq. Rooms of Pres. Ed. Society, 114 Nassau street. Nem York city. E. H. Pease, S. S. Depository, 19 Green street, Albany. M. Meigs, Union College. Rev. Edwards A. Beach, Stepheatown. Robert Wasson, Troy. Edward Vernon, Utica, J. P. Hovey, Theol. Seminary, Auburn Isaac J. Rice, Hamilton College. Alexander Trotter, Oneida Institute. Rev. Alanson Scofield, Auburn.

NEW JERSEY. Benjamin L. Swan, Theological Seminary, Princeton. PENNSYLVANIA. Benjamin Wells, Arcade, No. 61, and Henry Perkins, Philadelphia. VIRGINIA. Benjamin Brand, Richmond. James M. Allen, Union Theol. Seminary. TENNESSEE. Rev. Darius Hoyt, Theological Seminary, Maryville. Rev. John W. Irwin, Maryville

KENTUCKY. Rev. O. S. Hinckley, Lexington. Joseph Rucker, P. M., Augusta. OHIO. Rev. John Spaulding, Cincinnati. Rev. A. Pomeroy, Gallipolis. Rev. A, R. Clark, Hudson.

ILLINOIS. Charles E. Blood, Illinois College.

AGENTS AT LARGE. Rev. John M. Ellis, Rev. William L. Mather, and Rev. Ansel Nash.