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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)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0216 and id is 1 raw text is: 172 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action of said General Assembly on the subject of slavery; and whereas, the rep- resentatives of certain Presbyteries, withdrawn from all con- nection with said General Assembly as aforesaid, having convened at Knoxville in the State of Tennessee.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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