(D.) Things which should be done to aid the Cause. A State Colonization Society should be formed in each State of the Union. There are now seventeen State Societies. It is vastly important that each State Society should influence our fellow-citizens to establish an Auxiliary Society in every county or town of the Union. Let every Clergyman preach at least once a year on the subject. Let all the churches of every denomination in the United States, take up collections annually for the Society, on or about the Fourth of July. Let meetings of the citizens be held in every county, or town in the United States, and memorials in behalf of the cause of the Society, be sent in by them to their State Legislatures, and to Congress. Let the Ladies every where form associations to assist the object. Let every Editor publish something in its favour weekly, and send his paper in exchange to the African Repository, Washington Exty. Let the Friends of the cause, make such arrangements, as may give an opportunity to every individual in the country, of making annually, a contribution, if it be but of a single cent. to promote it. Finally, Let every man feel it to be a personal duty to give his countenance and support to the cause; let him realize its greatness, its practicability and glory,-and the work will soon be done. N. B.-Anxious to bring this Report within a small compas and give it a speedy circulation, we omit the list of Life Mem bers, and of Auxiliary Societies. We shall be glad to receive from our friends, information which will enable us to present, the next year, a full and accurate statement in regard to both. CONTENTS. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Society, Speech of Rev. Mr. Hammet, Page. Constitution, Government, and Laws of Liberia, Report of the Board of Managers of the Maryland Fund, Things which should be done to aid the cause, THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MANAGERS OF THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, WITH AN APPENDIX. MAY, 1830. NEW-HAVEN: PRINTED BY BALDWIN AND TREADWAY. 1830. ANNUAL MEETING. THE third annual meeting of the Colonization Society of the State of Connecticut, was held, by adjournment, in the centre church in the city of New-Haven, May 18, 1830. His Honor JOHN S. PETERS, one of the Managers of the Society, in the chair. The Treasurer's account, and the Annual Report were read and accepted. The following resolutions were adopted. Resolved, That the Annual Report be printed for distribution. Also, Resolved, That the clergy of the various religious denominations in this State, be respectfully invited to present the interests of the American Colonization Society to their respective congregations, on the fourth day of July next, and to solicit contributions in its behalf. The meeting was addressed in support of these resolutions, by Hon. Roger M. Sherman, Rev. Leonard Bacon, and Rev. T. H. Gallaudet. The following gentlemen, at a previous meeting, were elected officers of the Society for the ensuing year. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, ELECTED AT THE THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. HIS EXC. GIDEON TOMLINSON, President. HON. JOHN T. PETERS, Hartford, PROF. BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, Yale College, V. Presidents. REV. THOMAS H. GALLAUDET, Hartford, Secretary. HIS HONOR JOHN S. PETERS, Hebron, REV. JOEL H. LINSLEY, Hartford, REV. SAMUEL MERWIN, New-Haven, RT. REV. T. C. BROWNELL, Wash. College, REV. LEONARD BACON, New-Haven, HON. JOHN ALSOP, Middletown, HON. RALPH I. INGERSOLL, New-Haven, Managers. |