THE NEW YORK 474473 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1909 Tatered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by ... THE TRUSTEES OF THE FUND FOR The Relief of WiDOWS AND ORPHANS In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. By the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Epis. copal Church in the United States of America, in General Convention, held in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventyfour, it was Resolved: That future Editions of the Hymnal shall be printed so as to conform to the revised Edition presented by the joint Committee on the Hymnal, and that no other Hymns be allowed in the public worship of the Church, except the Hymnal as thus revised, and such hymns and psalms as are now ordinarily bound up with the Book of Common Prayer: provided that any Congregation may continue to use the Editions of the Hymnal heretofore published, until further action of the Convention. Certificate. I do hereby certify that this edition of the Revised Hymnal, having been by me compared with and corrected by the Standard Book, as the General Convention has directed, is permitted to be published accordingly. On behalf of the Trustees of the Fund for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of deceased Clergyman, gud of aged, infrth, and disabled Clergymen. LLOYD W. WELLS, Secy of the Board of Trustees. DALTIMORE, MD., October, 1871. Resolved: That this Hymnal shall not be bound up with the Book of Common Prayer, until order to that effect shall be taken by the General Convention. NEW YORK, October, 1874.10 Resolved: That this Hymaal now serised, and adopted shall be free to be printed and pablished by all responsible publishers, who shall obtain a license to that effect from the Trustees of the Fund for the Relief of Widows and prphans' of deceased Clergymen, and of aged, infirm, and disabled, 'Clergymen, and who shall assure to such Trustees a payment, to, be applied for the uses of said fund, equivalent to ten per cent, por the retail selling price: and that the copyright of the Revised Hymnar shall vest in said Trustees, subject, however, to the farther order of this Convention : Also that the Trustees be authorized to superintend the revision and publication of the revised editions of the Hymnal, with power to make the typographical and literary changes necessary to conform it to the Committee's Report made to this Convention. From the Journal. Attest: HENRY C. POTTER, Secretary of the House of Bishops. Concurred in by the House of Deputies. Attest: WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY, Secretary. |