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A List of Ecclesiastical Bodies which have passed resolutions in accordance with the views and objects of the American Temperance Society.*

Synods of South Carolina and Georgia.

Synod of Geneva, N. Y.

Synod of Reformed Dutch Church, N. Y. at Albany.

Synod of West Tennessee.

Presbytery of Chenango county, N. Y.

Presbytery of Orange and Stoney Creek, N. C.

Charleston Baptist Association, S. C.

Presbytery of Geneva, N. Y.

Presbytery of Newark, N. J.

Presbytery of Athens, Ohio.

Presbytery of Otsego County, N. Y.
New England Methodist Conference.
Presbytery of North River, N. Y.
Presbytery of Columbia, N. Y.

Presbytery of Grand River.

Presbytery of New Castle, Del.

Presbytery of West Lexington.

Cayuga Presbytery, N. Y.

Oswego Presbytery, N. Y.

Deerfield Conference of Congregational Churches, N. H.

Consociation of Windham County, Conn.

Baptist Convention, Ohio.

Franklin County Association, Mass.

York Conference of Churches.

Presbytery of Newburyport, Mass.

Churches of North Killingworth, Conn.

Middlesex Association, Conn.

Caledonia Association, N. H.

Fairfield East Association of Ministers, Conn.

Conference of Churches at Epping, N. H. Rockingham Co. Composed of Brentwood, Rochester, Exeter, Hampton, Stratham, and New Market. Church at New Market, Lamprey River, N. H.

Baptist Association of Vermont.

1st Presbyterian Church, Savannah, Geo.

Congregational Church, North Yarmouth, Me. 200 members.

A List of Medical Societies which have passed Resolutions in accordance with the views and objects of the American Temperance Society.

Medical Society, N. H.

Medical Association of Rochester, N. Y.

Connecticut Medical Society.

Medical Society of New York.

Medical Society of Vermont.

Fairfield County Medical Society, Conn.

Watertown Medical Society, Conn.
Ontario County Medical Society, N. Y.

Eighteenth Medical District of Ohio.

It is proper to state that the dates of resolutions, noted in this and the following lists, come within the year 1828.

A List of Military Bodies which have passed resolutions in accordance with the views and objects of the American Temperance Society.

Washington Artillery Company, Vt.

Monroe Rifle Company, Ludlow and Cavendish, Vt. Voted the expense of treating to the Greeks.

A Militia Company, Newton, Mass.

A Rifle Company, Portland, Me. Sustained a hard service without ardent spirits.

A Light Infantry Company, Danvers, Mass.

A Militia Company, Portsmouth, N. H.

Sandwich Rifle Company, Barnstable County, Mass.

At a Military Election of Officers for the Regiment, Newbury, Essex Co. Mass. Two Militia Companies, Bridgewater, Mass.

future meetings.

A Militia Company, Peacham, Vt.

Voted out ardent spirits at all

A Militia Company, Newton, Mass. ardent spirits entirely abandoned.
Militia Companies, Thetford and Fairlee, Vt.

Election of Officers for a Regiment, Rochester, N. Y. ardent spirits banished forever.

A Rifle Company, Portland, Me.

Twenty fifth Regiment Infantry, Conn. General order to abstain from ardent spirits on days of Exercise and Review.

A Militia Company, Hadley, Mass.

Twenty first Regiment; officers voted to dispense with ardent spirits on public days.

Company of Grenadiers, Wayne Co. N. Y. Voted out ardent spirits in future. A Militia Company, Wallingford, Vt. Voted out ardent spirits in future. Governor's Foot Guards, New Haven, Conn.

Five Militia Companies, N. Y. Mentioned in Mr. Axtell's Report as having entirely voted out Ardent Spirits on Military days.

Two Companies, Farmington, Ct.

Merchants who have abandoned the sale of ardent spirits altogether.

In the towns of Derry, N. H.; Williamstown, Mass.; Ashtabula, Ohio; Hardwick, Vt.; Greensborough, Vt.; Catlin, N. Y.; all the merchants have renounced sale entirely. In Northampton, Mass. one; Western Counties of New York, twenty five; of which five are in Geneva; Prospect, Conn., two; Durham, Conn., two; Thetford, Vt., one; Amherst, Mass., one; New Milford, Conn., two; Springfield, Mass., several; Fairfield, Conn., three; Wilton, Conn. two; Reading, Conn., one; Bridgeport, Ct., one; Norwich city, Conn., one; New York city, a number; Troy, N. Y., four; Vergennes, Vt., one; Great Barrington, Mass., two; Newark, and Bloomfield, N. J., several ; North Stonington, Conn., eleven; East Machias, Me. ; a merchant writing to Editor of Boston Recorder, signed S. W. A large and respectable meeting of merchants, in Caledonia County, Vt. voted to refrain from use.

Taverns without a Bar.

Williamstown, Mass., two; Lockport, N. Y. one.

Fire Companies which have renounced use.

In Portland, Me., two; in Brooklyn, L. I. one.

Distilleries stopped, from principle.

In the State of New York, four.

In two ship yards, in the neighbourhood of Boston, in which are employed 140 men, the use of ardent spirit has been discontinued.

FOR AN AUXILIARY SOCIETY.

The following form of Constitution for an Auxiliary Society, er Association, has been generally adopted.

ART. 1. This Society shall be called "The -
Society," auxiliary to the American Temperance Society.

Temperance

ART. 2. Any person subscribing this Constitution shall be a member of this Society.

ART. 3. The members of this Society, believing that the use of intoxicating liquors is, for persons in health, not only unnecessary, but hurtful; and that the practice is the cause of forming intemperate appetites and habits; and that while it is continued, the evils of intemperance can never be prevented, do therefore agree, that we will abstain from the use of distilled spirits, except as a medicine in case of bodily infirmity; that we will not allow the use of them in our families, nor provide them for the entertainment of our friends, or for persons in our employment; and that in all suitable ways, we will discountenance the use of them in the community.

ART. 4. The officers of this Society shall be a President, vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Auditor; to be chosen at each annual meeting of the Society; and who shall perform the duties customarily assigned to such officers.

ART. 5. The officers of the Society, in their associated capacity, together with such a number of other members as circumstances shall require, duly appointed, shall constitute an Executive Committee, to carry into effect all votes and orders of the Society, to devise and recommend the best means for accomplishing its benevolent designs; to propose, from time to time, measures necessary for raising funds; and in general, to perform all other duties, in accordance with the principles of this constitution, which they shall deem necessary, for promoting habits of temperance to the greatest extent. They shall make an annual report to this Society, of their proceedings; and through the Secretary, shall transmit, annually, to the Parent Society, an account of the state, measures, success, receipts and expenditures of this Auxiliary.

ART. 6. The Society shall meet annually, on the day of―――; and at such other times as shall be judged necessary, by the Executive Committee.

N. B. It is found to be of important advantage to have an address delivered at the annual meeting of a Society, in connexion with the public reading of the Report; and it is earnestly recommended to the Executive Committees of Auxiliaries, that by these and other measures, such as may be proper, they endeavour to render the annual meetings interesting, and effective in their impressions upon the minds of the community.

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