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Board Rooms, Thursday, July 10,1930.
The
Rooms at 4 P.M. ,
Board met in regular session in the Board
the President presiding.
The following were present: Cousins, Mrs. Thomas,
Gaines, Coleman, Jenkins, Montague, Gwathmey, Harris. Also
Secretary Sallee and Treasurer Buxton.
Brother Coleman opened the meeting with prayer.
The minutes were read and approved.
The following resolution in lieu of a report
from the Committee on the Far East was adopted:
That the resignation of Miss Essie Smith of
Canton, China, be regretfully accepted, her health not justi¬
fying her return to China.
Brother Sallee announced the death of Miss Lilia
Echols, July 3rd, and, on motion, Brother Sallee was requested
to express to the family our sympathy and our appreciation
of her services.
ADMINIS- The report of the Administrative Committee was
TRATITE'read by Brother Jenkins. The part referring to the sale of
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Liberty Bonds was adopted, and the rest of the report
TEE — was laid upon the table until the next meeting.
The report was as follows:
That, WHEREAS the diminishing receipts of the
Foreign Mission Board renders a decrease in our expenditures
absolutely necessary, and
WHEREAS, we are facing the prospect of an early
and drastic curtailment of our work in the foreign fields,
BE IT RESOLVED, First, that we instruct all of our
•Missions not to initiate in any way any new work, and to re¬
frain from making any further contracts but to retrench their
expenses in every way.
Second, That each Mission be requested to examine
all the items of the budget for its field, and that they
notify the Board of such items as are not covered by yearly
contracts' which can be eliminated at this time, with the
idea of reducing the expenditure for the remaining months of
this calendar year.
• Third, That Dr. Sallee be requested to cable this
resolution in full to each Mission.
RESOLVED, that Dr. Sallee be requested to make a
detailed examination of the 1930 budget and to report to the
Administrative Committee any items where curtailment is prac¬
tical at this time.
Second, that the Administrative Committee be
given power to act in case such recommendation is made by
Dr. Sallee.
• RESOLVED, by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention, That E. P. Buxton, Treasurer of this Board,
is hereby authorized and empowered to sell and assign the
following United States Bonds registered on the books of the
Treasury Department in the name of, or assigned to the Foreign
Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention:
Title of Loan Serial Humber Denomination. Form of Reg-
• istration.
2nd Liberty
Д,оап
of 1917
75990
$50.00
Mrs. Olive Brad¬
shaw Webster.
2nd Liberty Loan
of 1917
75991
50.00
Mrs. Olive Brad¬
shaw V/ebster.
4th Liberty Loan
of 1918
281,681
50.00
J.D. Bo swell
And it is further RESOLVED, That any and all as¬
signments of the above described United States Bonds, heretofAre
