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Excerpt from Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1846 Time rolled on. Four years after, in 1840, the Proceedings of the General Assembly (old School) contain a report of a committee on the funds of the Church, the Hon. John Fine, cliairrnan, which, though cautiously deficient in Specific data, contains the following significant paragraph. The committee regret that any previous Assembly should have approved of the funds of the Church being invested in the stocks of distant banks, with the expectation of receiving a larger income than 6 per cent. Interest. The report states that forone or more years this expectation was realized. But the Committee fear that some portion ofthese investments is now in extreme hazard. It is plain that the Assembly would not, at the present time, recom mend a further investment of the Church funds in south-western banks. Is it not worthy of the consideration of the trustees, whether it be not the part' of wisdom to sell the stocks of the unproductive banks as soon as it may be judiciously done, and invest the proceeds in securities which are less fluc tuating and less hazardous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.