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promise under the late action in the cases of Bishop Andrew and 

 Brother Harding, and the principles avowed for the maintenance 

 of that action short of what has been shadowed forth in the report 

 of the select committee which we have had under consideration, and 

 the measures recommended by the Southern and South-western del- 

 egates at their meeting after the General Conference had closed its 

 session. 



Your committee do therefore recommend the adoption of the 

 following resolutions: 



1. Resolved, That it is necessary for the Annual Conferences in 

 the slave-holding States and territories, and in Texas, to unite in a 

 distinct ecclesiastical connection, agreeably to the provisions of the 

 report of the select committee of nine of the late General Confer- 

 ence, adopted on the 8th day of June last. 



2. Resolved, That we consider and esteem the adoption of the 

 report of the aforesaid committee of nine by the General Confer- 

 ence (and the more for the unanimity with which it was adopted) 

 as involving the most solemn pledge which could have been given 

 by the majority to the minority and the Churches represented by 

 them, for the full and faithful execution of all the particulars speci- 

 fied and intended in that report. 



3. Resolved, That we approve of the recommendation of the 

 Southern delegates to hold a convention in Louisville on the 1st 

 day of May next, and will elect delegates to the same on the ratio 

 recommended in the address of the delegates to their constituents. 



4. Resolved, That we earnestly request the bishops, one and all, to 

 attend the said convention. 



5. Resolved, That while we do not consider the proposed conven- 

 tion competent to make any change or changes in the rules of dis- 

 cipline, they may, nevertheless, indicate what changes, if any, are 

 deemed necessary under a separate jurisdiction of the Southern and 

 South-western Conferences. And that it is necessary for the conven- 

 tion to resolve on and provide for a separate organization of these 

 Conferences under a General Conference to be constituted and empow- 

 ered in all respects for the government of these Conferences, as the General 

 Conference hitherto has been with respect to all the Annual Con- 

 ferences — according to the provisions and intention of the late Gen- 

 eral Conference. 



6. Resolved, That as, in common with all our brethren of this 

 Conference district, we have deeply sympathized with Bishop An- 

 drew in his afflictions, an i believe him to have been blameless in 



