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An Act to incorporate the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. 1859-1860 172 (1859)

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to said company further than has been extended to it by
previous acts of the General Assembly of the State.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from and after its passage.
W. C. WHITTHORNE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
TAZ. W. NEWMAN,
Speaker of the Senate.
Passed, December 3, 1859.
CHAPTER 22.
AN ACT to incorporate theUnited Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States
of America.
WHEREAS, Certain citizens of the United States, formerly
in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church of the United States of America, under constraint
by convictions of duty to themselves, to the Church of
Chirst, and to their entire country, withdrew from said
General Assembly, because of the action of said General
Assembly on the subject of slavery; and whereas, the rep-
resentatives of certain Presbyteries, withdrawn from all con-
nection with said General Assembly as aforesaid, having
convened at Knoxville in the State of Tennessee. on the
1st day of April, A. D. 1858, and then and there formed
an ecclesiastical judicatory, by the name of the United
Synod of the Preabyterian Church in the United States of
America; therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Tennessee, That W. R. Caswell, P. Dickinson,
of Knoxville, Win. Wallace, of Maryville, Win. M. Stoke-
lv, of Madisonville, and John A. McKinney, of Rogers-
ville, Trustees of said United Synod, and their successors,
be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and
corporate by the name of the  United Synod of the Pres-
byterian Church in the United States of America, and
shall have perpetual succession; said United Synod shall
consist of commissioners, delegates, or representatives, ap-
pointed from time to time by the several Presbyteries now
in connection with said United Synod, and which may
hereafter become connected with said United Synod, and of
the officers of said United Synod; said United Synod may
sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded; have a com-
mon seal; make, ordain, execute, amend, add to, alter,
repeal or annul laws and regulations for their government;

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