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much beloved fellow member, the Rev. Elisha Mitchell ; Therefore, 



Resolved, That we have received with feelings of the deepest sorrow, the 

 intelligence of his sad and melancholy fate. 



Resolved, That while we bow with humble submission to the decree of 

 . the Supreme Governor of all things, we shall ever cherish in our hearts, 

 the sentiments of esteem and friendship, with which his life and charac- 

 ter have impressed us. 



Resolved, That in his death the Commissioners and community of 

 Chapel Hill have sustained an irreparable loss. 



Resolved, That we most sincerely sympathise with his bereaved family 

 in their trouble and distress. 



Resolved, That these 'resolutions be spread upon the journals of the 

 Village, that a copy be sent to the family of the deceased also to the 

 Chapel Hill Gazette with request for publication. 



E. MALLETT, Magistrate Police. 

 ' P. H. McDADE, 

 H. B. GUTHRIE, 

 J. H. WATSON, 

 C. SCOTT. 



> Commissioners. 



MINUTE OF PRESBYTERY. 



Minute adopted by the Presbytery of Orange at its session in Lexing- 

 ton, N. C, October 20th 1857. 



" Inasmuch as it has pleased God to remove from us so suddenly, by 

 a mysterious providence, our beloved brother, Elisha Mitchell — for nearly 

 forty years a Professor in the University of North Carolina, having suc- 

 cessively filled the Chairs of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and 

 of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology — it becomes us, while we deplore 

 our weighty loss, to submit humbly to the stroke laid upon us. Let us, 

 therefore, remember that we are now taught in this Providence that the 

 time is short, and that no loveliness, nor usefulness, nor learning can ex- 

 empt us from the solemn call that soon awaits each of us. 



We recommend that a copy of this minute be sent to the family of the 

 deceased brother with the hearty sympathy of this Presbytery. 



WM. N. MEBANE, Ch'n. Com. 



