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Excerpt from Proposed Constitution and Digest of Revised Canons for the Goverment of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America: Reported to the Adjourned Convention of Bishops, Clergymen and Laymen of Said Church, Held in Christ Church, Columbia, S. C., In October, 1861 Resolved, 1. That the secession of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee from the United States, and the formation by them of a new Government called the Confederate States of America, render it necessary and expedient that the Dioceses within those States should form among themselves an independent organization. Resolved, 2. That as preliminary to the organization declared necessary in the foregoing Resolution, a Committee of three Bishops, three Presbyters, and three Laymen, be appointed by the Convention to prepare and report to an adjourned meeting of this Convention, to be held at Columbia, S. C, on the third Wednesday in October next, a Constitution and Canons, under which such an organization may be effected. On this Committee were elected by ballot Bishops Elliott, Green and Rutledge, Rev'd Dr. Barnard, Rev'd Messrs. P. Trapier and R. N. Pierce, Hon. R. F. W. Allston, A. W. Ellerbe, Esq., and Hon. Geo. S. Guyon. Messrs. Barnard, Ellerbe and Guyon being unable to attend, the Rev'd Mr. Crane, and Messrs. Philip Williams and Richard H. Smith were appointed in their stead. The Committee prepared accordingly a Proposed Constitution which, on being laid before an adjourned Convention from the Church in all the Confederate States, held in Columbia, S. C, in October last, was adopted, as hereinafter printed. The committee presented also the subsequent Digest of Canons; and the Convention Resolved, That the Committee on the Constitution and Revised Canons be instructed to print, in pamphlet, the said Constitution and Canons, and to send to the Secretary of each Diocesan Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church now in the Confederate States, or which may be so before the first meeting of the General Council, two copies of the pamphlet for each Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church in said Diocese. The present pamphlet is accordingly put forth for the consideration of the several Diocesan Conventions, in order to final action at the next General Council, proposed to be held in Augusta, Ga., in November, 1862. 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.