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abounded more and more even in her deep poverty. The board 

 call upon the members of the Conference still to encourage a more 

 enlarged benevolence to meet the full claims of those committed to 

 our care. There is no probability that the membership of the 

 Church will so rapidly expand as to warrant the expectation that 

 the Conference collection will suddenly swell to its due proportion. 

 The Conference must continue to foster "the care of this ministry 

 to the saints" by earnest and regular appeals year by year. 



The board feel a deep sense of gratification in making these ap- 

 propriations to our beloved and venerable brethren, to the widows 

 and orphans committed to the Church, and in behalf of the Confer- 

 ence send to them an affectionate remembrance, committing them to 

 the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. 



The report and the accompanying appropriations are respectfully 

 submitted. 



In 1850 " The South Carolina Annual Conference " 

 became the trustee of the various institutions or trusts 

 by obtaining from the Legislature of South Carolina 

 the following "Act of Incorporation:" 



Be it enacted, by the Honorable the Senate and House of Represent- 

 atives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority of the 

 same, That W. M. Wightinan, Whitefoord Smith, H. A. C. Walker, 

 J. H. Wheeler, J. Stacy, N. Talley, C. Betts, W. Martin, S. W. Ca- 

 pers, W. A. Gamewell, K. J. Boyd, and D. Derrick, with such 

 others as they may associate with themselves and their successors, 

 be, and they are hereby declared to be, a body corporate, in deed 

 and in law, by the name of the South Carolina Annual Conference, 

 and by the said name shall have perpetual succession of officers and 

 members, and a common seal, with power to purchase, have, hold, 

 receive, and enjoy, in perpetuity, or for any term of years, any es- 

 tate, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, not exceeding twenty thou- 

 sand dollars in net annual produce, of what kind soever, and to sell, 

 alien, remise, and change the same, or any part thereof, as it shall 

 think proper; and by its said name to sue and be sued, plead and be 

 impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or 

 equity in this State ; and to make such rules and by-laws (not repug- 

 nant to the law of the land) for the regulation, benefit, and advan- 

 tage of the said corporation ; and the same to change and alter, as 

 shall from time to time be agreed upon by a majority of the mem 



bers of the said corporation. 

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