MINUTES OF THE SEVENTY-NINTH ANNUAL

MEETING

The seventy-ninth annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association was opened in Tremont Temple at 2.30 on Tuesday afternoon, May 24, the President in the chair. Prayer was offered by Rev. Benjamin R. Bulkeley of Beverly, Mass. On motion it was voted to dispense with the reading of the minutes of the last meeting. An order of business was then adopted.

The following Business Committee was appointed by the chair: William Taggard Piper, Massachusetts; A. P. Reccord, Rhode Island; Mrs. David Utter, Colorado; Joseph B. Moors, Massachusetts; D. M. Wilson, Massachusetts; Calvin H. Allen, New York; Charles H. Burrage, Massachusetts; Emerson P. Harris, New Jersey.

Voted, That the Business Committee be instructed to report favorably or unfavorably on every matter referred to it.

Resolutions were then offered, and submitted to the Business Committee.

The report of the Committee on Nominations was made by the chairman, Mr. Frank T. Fay. The committee reported the following nominations, based upon the returns received from the ballots sent out: President,

Samuel A. Eliot, D.D., Cambridge, Mass.; Vice-Presidents, Joseph W. Symonds, LL.D., Portland, Me., Rockwood Hoar, Worcester, Mass., John Harsen Rhoades, New York, N.Y., Thomas J. Morris, Baltimore, Md., George E. Adams, Chicago, Ill., Horace Davis, LL.D., San Francisco, Cal.; Secretary, Rev. Charles E. St. John, Brookline, Mass.; Assistant Secretary, George W. Fox, Boston, Mass.; Treasurer, Francis H. Lincoln, Hingham, Mass.; Directors for New England States, Leslie C. Cornish, Augusta Me., John Mason Little, Boston, Mass., Mrs. Emily C. Morton, Fall River, Mass., Charles Eliot Ware, Fitchburg, Mass. ; Director for Middle and Southern States, Isaac H. Cary, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Director for Western States and Pacific Coast, Rev. John W. Day, St. Louis, Mo.; Nominating Committee for 1905: Francis H. Brown, Boston, Mass., Mrs. Abby A. Peterson, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Robert H. Davis, New York, N.Y., Rev. Minot O. Simons, Cleveland, Ohio.

Voted, To discharge the Committee with the thanks of the Association.

The following were appointed to distribute, collect, and count ballots: Albert W. Clark, Clayton R. Bowen, Clarence A. Langston, Richard E. Birks, Samuel C. Spaulding, William S. Jones.

The chair declared a recess for voting, and announced that the polls would remain open till four o'clock.

Rev. Austin S. Garver, chairman, presented the report of the Committee on Retiring Allowances for Aged

Ministers, and upon recommendation of the Committee it was

Resolved, That the Association commends to the Society for the Relief of Aged and Destitute Clergymen a careful and favorable consideration of the plans for establishing retiring allowances for aged ministers.

The amendment to the constitution, presented at the last meeting, and providing that there shall not be less than six women on the Board of Directors, was then laid before the Association. Dr. William A. Rust spoke in favor of the amendment, holding that the devoted labor of the women of the Association should receive fuller recognition.

Mrs. Emily A. Fifield, for herself and the National Alliance, expressed the hope that the amendment would not pass.

After further remarks by Dr. Rust, Mrs. Catlin, Mr. Ames, and Mr. Slicer, the amendment was voted upon and rejected.

The chair requested the Secretary to present the vote of the Board of Directors relative to the proposed change in the name of the Year Book. The Secretary said that the Board of Directors received from the Association a suggestion that the name of the Year Book be changed to "Year Book of Unitarian and Affiliated Churches." In view of the fact that this was merely a recommendation, that it was passed by a vote of only 75 to 73, and that the sentiment of the Board of Directors was against the change, the Board voted to refer the suggestion back to the Association for further instruction.