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amount, or more, shall be made sure to such trustees as shall be ap- 

 pointed for said institution, then, and on that condition, we select 

 Mount Ariel as a suitable site for a Conference school, to be con- 

 ducted on the manual labor system, preparatory to Randolph-Macon 

 or any other college, and to be named "The Dougherty Manual 

 Labor School of the South Carolina Conference." 



2. Resolved, That an Executive Committee of seven be appointed, 

 who shall be members of this Conference, and act as a Board of 

 Trustees for this school ; and further, that this committee be em- 

 powered, and they are hereby empowered and instructed, to elect 

 four lay members of our Church in the vicinity of the school, the 

 whole of whom shall constitute a Board of Trustees for the acad- 

 emy, with power to fill any vacancy or vacancies that may occur 

 in the board during the recess of the Annual Conference. 



3. Resolved, That the Board of Trustees meet on , at 



Mount Ariel, and make arrangements for the erection of suitable 

 buildings, the purchase of lands, etc., so as that the academies be 

 ready to go into operation on the 1st January, 1835. 



4. Resolved, That the agent employed in behalf of the Randolph- 

 Macon College, together with the presiding elders of the several 

 districts, be, and they hereby are, authorized to raise contributions 

 and make collections in behalf of the Conference seminary through- 

 out our boundaries, and otherwise forward its interests as they may 

 be able. 



Under the second resolution the following members 

 of the Conference, with four laymen, were appointed 

 as a Board of Trustees: William Capers, William M. 

 Kennedy, Malcom McPherson, William M. Wight- 

 man, James Dannelly, Bond English, and Nicholas 

 Talley. Laymen: Francis Connor, James Shackelford, 

 Thomas W. Williams, and George W. Hodges. 



In 1835 the Conference issued the following address 

 on the subject of education: 



The South Carolina Conference earnestly invites the attention of 

 the members and friends of the Church of this Conference district 

 to the claims of education. 



There is no question anywhere as to the importance of educa- 

 tion, considered in general. But the subject of concern is as to the 

 hind of education — its being moral as well as intellectual, and the 

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