Fort Wayne College...... 1855 Rev. R, D. Robinson, A. M. Fort Wayne, Ind.-N. Indiana Conference.. Berea, O.-North Ohio Conference..... Salem, Oregon.-Oregon Albion, Mich.-Mich. Conference... + College and preparatory. College proper. 1889 John W. Weakly, A. M.. Collego-average. College proper and preparatory. **Notes. a Apparatus. b Cabinet. Trustees ap- Methodist General Biblical Institute... Garrett Biblical Institute... 1855 Rev. John Dempster, D.D.. 1847 Rev. David Patten, D. D... Concord, N. H.-NewEngl. and Troy Conf.. Evanston, Ill. - Northwestern Conferences.. * Scholarships. + Average. INSTITUTIONS OWNED OR EDUCATIONALLY CONTROLLED BY THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AND UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF ANNUAL CONFERENCES. Colleges and Universities. 1. Whole number of Colleges and Universities. 2. Whole number of Teachers employed.. 3. Whole number of Pupils both in Collegiate and Preparatory courses for 1855.. 4. Value of Buildings, Grounds, and Educational Fixtures. Academies, Seminaries, Female Colleges, and Collegiate Institutes. 1. Whole number.. 2. Whole number of Instructors. 8. Pupils in attendance for the year 1855.. 4. Value of Academic Buildings, Grounds, and Fixtures, estimated. 5. Endowments 6. Other Property. .... 7. Cost of Apparatus and Cabinets. 8. Volumes in Libraries. Several blanks. Some of the figures are approximate estimates. For all Institutions. Total of assets above liabilities.... MM. REPORT RELATING TO THE BEQUEST OF JAMES BOURDET. The Committee on the Bourdet Bequest, having considered the subject referred to them, submit the following as their report: In A. D. 1841, James Bourdet, of Champlain, Clinton county, NewYork, in his last will and testament, left to the Methodist Episcopal Churches of the United States, one undivided half of his real and personal estate, to be expended by them in Christian and charitable purposes: provided that his nephew, Warren Chapman Dickinson, died without issue. Said Warren Chapman has since died, having no issue. The committee has no means of knowing the exact amount of the aforesaid legacy, but recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: 1. Resolved by the delegates of the several Annual Conferences in General Conference assembled, That Solomon Fisk, of Chazy, New-York, and George L. Clark, of Plattsburgh, New-York, be, and they hereby are, appointed commissioners on the part of the Methodist Episcopal Churches, to settle with the executor or executors of the aforesaid estate. 2. Resolved, That they pay over the money remaining in their hands, after defraying all necessary expenses, in the manner following, namely: Five hundred dollars to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chazy, New-York, and the balance, be the same more or less, to the Treasurer of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. INDEX. Absence, Leave of .26, 35, 73, 92, 112 | Appeals Trials and 25, 40, 114, 148, 172 134, 172 ence......... ence... Address from the Congregational ........... 36 Agents and Editors invited within 173 172 173 170 Arkansas Conference......5, 11, 53, 139 Baird, I. N., elected Editor of the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate... 159 140 18 25 Barker, John, takes his seat...... vote relating to Missionary Bishops 146 phans of, how paid... 41, 124, 134, 135 Elders, Pastors, and Secretaries, 171 |