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shall be on the second day of the Conference session, at which time 

 offirers shall be elected and the report of the Treasurer read. 



Art. 11. The members present at each meeting of the society- 

 shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 



Art. 12. The President shall have power to call extra meetings 

 of the society whenever in his judgment the interest of the society 

 requires it. 



Art. 13. This Constitution may be altered or amended at any 

 annual meeting by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. 



In 1871 the Rev. R. C. Oliver was appointed Agent 

 for the Carolina Orphan Home, and in 1872 Superin- 

 tendent. The Committee on the Home submitted, in 

 1873, the following report: 



We find that the Superintendent and Agent have been steadily 

 engaged in promoting the interest intrusted to their care, and they 

 are happy to be able to report the Orphans' Home in active opera- 

 tion. Ten orphans have already been received, and eight others 

 have been accepted. The Home will soon be ready for the ac- 

 commodation of ten or twelve more. The children are under the 

 control of a cultivated Christian lady, fully competent to the re- 

 sponsible task of training them for usefulness in the Church and the 

 world. The Superintendent has purchased a printing-press and fix- 

 tures, and has commenced the publication of a weekly paper devoted 

 to the interests of the Home. This paper, called the Orphan*? 

 Friend, he purposes conducting in such a way that it will be a means 

 of revenue to the Home, while, at the same time, the boys will be 

 taught the art of printing, and habits of industry and economy be 

 formed. Your committee indorse his course in this matter, and rec- 

 ommend the Orphans' Friend to the patronage of all our preachers 

 and people. We recommend also that the Kev. K. C. Oliver be re- 

 appointed Superintendent, and that he and the Executive Commit- 

 tee be authorized to secure the services of an agent, if they deem it 

 proper. 



The committee have received assurances from the Superintendent 

 of his determination to establish the Home upon a firm and sub- 

 stantial basis. It is his intention to increase the amount he has 

 already given to fifty thousand dollars or more. 



We commend the Orphans' Home to the sympathies, prayers, 

 and liberality of all our people 

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