Richmond, Nov. 3, 1845.
The monthly meeting of the Board was held at the house of the President. Prayer by Rev. Joseph Walker. Present brn. Jeter, Sydnor, Ryland, Ball, Smith, A G Wortham, Gwathmey, Crane, Talman, A Snead, C T Wortham, A Thomas, and Sumner. Brn. Walker, S. Harris, S. C. Clopton, & Geo. Pearcy being present were invited to participate with us. The minutes of the last meeting were read & approved. A letter from Rev. Solomon Peck, Cor. Sec. of the "Acting Board" of the Gen. Convention was read by the President, relating to "the subjects of claims & transfer of Missions" in which was, enclosed copies of the doings of the Board of Managers at their special meeting in Philadelphia on the 24th. of Oct. last, thereon. The reports of the committees on these subjects were as follows, viz.
"The Committee to whom was referred so much of the communication of the committee of the Southern Baptist Convention as relates to any claims which said Southern Baptist Convention, or which the General Convention may have, or suppose they have, upon said Southern Baptist Convention, report:--
That they have given their earnest attention to the subject, and are of the opinion, that, in as much as brethren from the South have retired from the General Convention and formed a new organization for themselves, the property & liabilities of the General Convention should remain with that body; and that no other mode of adjusting supposed claims in the case would be more equitable in itself, or more likely to prove satisfactory. The circumstances under which the separation above named took place, are of themselves sufficiently painful: & it may well be a matter of solicitude with all the parties concerned that no new questions, which might lead to further misunderstanding, should, without the most urgent necessity, be started. Of such a tendency the question of
