For $1,000 U. S. 10-40 Bond,

For Bond and Mortgage of John L. Caverly, on 293

Washington Street, 7 per cent. interest,.

Balance on hand, in cash,

997 50

6,000 00

226 49

$9,829 62

THE FUND IS NOW

Cash on hand, as above,...

$226 49

Invested in Bonds and Mortgages, on New-York City

Balance on hand, same as reported to the last Convention,

$40 86

The Trustees report, that, much to their disappointment and regret, the amount required to be raised by private contributions to complete the purchase of the house and lot No. 38 E. 22d-street has not been fully subscribed, and there still remains a balance due to the gentleman who made the advance of about $3,000, which it is important should be supplied at an early day to enable the Trustees to obtain the title to the property, and they, therefore, under the circumstances, ask for authority to pay the deficiency out of the income of the Disposable Fund. A resolution to this effect is appended to this Report, as follows:

Resolved, That the Trustees of the Episcopal Fund be authorized to pay from the income of the Disposable Fund the amount required to complete the purchase money for house and lot No. 38 E. 22d-street, New-York, and now occupied by the Bishop of the Diocese as the Episcopal residence.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

WM. E. DUNSCOMB, Chairman,

G. M. OGDEN,

HENRY E. PIERREPONT,

GEORGE MERRITT,

Trustees.

THOS. P. CUMMINGS,

Secretary and Treasurer,]

NEW-YORK, Sept. 25, 1867.

N. B.-This Account differs from Report of Trustees of Episcopal Fund, as it includes payments made by Parishes during the Sittings of the Convention.

The resolution recommended in the foregoing Report was amended by the insertion after "Disposable Fund," the words "the sum of three thousand dollars, being about," and then adopted.

The Report of the Special Committee on the Salary of the Bishop of the Diocese was presented and read:

Report

OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE SALARY OF THE BISHOP.

The Special Committee, on the Salary of the Bishop, report:

They have performed the duty assigned them, and the deficiency in the Episcopal Fund has been supplied for the salary of the Bishop for the past year.

The income of the Disposable Fund is still insufficient to pay the salary pledged by the Convention to the Bishop, and the taxes and expenses of the Episcopal residence.

Your Committee would, therefore, offer the following resolution:

Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to make an equitable apportionment among the Parishes of the Diocese, of a sum, which, with the income of the Episcopal Fund, will meet the amount pledged by this Convention for payment to the Bishop.

NEW-YORK, 13th Nov., 1867.

FRANCIS VINTON, D. D., Chairman.
HENRY E, PIERREPONT, Secretary.

The Resolution, recommended by this Report, was adopted. The Special Committee on the Salary of the Bishop for the ensuing year were appointed to be as follows:

Rev. Francis Vinton, D. D., Rev. Benj. I. Haight, D. D., Cyrus Curtiss, Esq., Stephen Cambreleng, Esq., Hon. John A. Dix, Henry E. Pierrepont, Esq., Hon. Hamilton Fish, Frederick G. Foster, Esq., George Merritt, Esq., Thomas P. Cummings, Esq., Edward Jones, Esq.

On motion of Mr. Samuel Davis, it was

Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Episcopal Fund be directed to continue for this year the payment to the Bishop of the Diocese of two thousand dollars, in addition to the salary of six thousand dollars heretofore pledged to him by this Convention. The Committee on the Incorporation of Churches presented their Report, as follows:

Report

OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE INCORPORATION OF CHURCHES.

The Committee on the Incorporation of Churches desiring to be admitted into union with the Convention, respectfully report:

They have examined the certificates submitted to them, and find that the following appear to have been regularly incorporated, according to law, viz. :

I. The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. John's Church, in the town of Clarkstown, in the County of Rockland, N. Y., whose certificate was recorded August 22, 1867.

II. The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of All Saints' Church, in the City of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, whose certificate was recorded September 24, 1867.

III. The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Mary's Church, in the town of Luzerne, in the County of Warren, whose certificate was recorded May 16, 1865.

IV. The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Luke's Church, in the village of Cambridge, in the County of Washington, whose certificate was recorded November 10, 1866.

V. The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the Church of our Saviour, in the City of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, and in the State of New-York, whose certificate was recorded September 25, 1867.

The approval of the Standing Committee, acting as the Ecclesiastical Authority, in the absence of the Bishop, has been attached to all the foregoing, except that of St. Luke's, Cambridge.

The certificates of the following Churches appear to be defective:

I. The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of All Saints' Church, in the town of Ossining, in the County of Westchester.

In this case the meeting at which the proceedings for Incorporation were had, was presided over by the Rev. Mr. Stocking, who was not the Rector of the Church, and does not appear to have been called to the Chair.

The certificate is recorded in the office of the County Clerk of Westchester. This is not a legal recording. The office of Register was established in this County by an act passed April 16, 1858, which requires all certificates of the Incorporation of Religious Societies to be recorded in the office of such Register, and not in that of the County Clerk.

II. The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Mark's Church, in the town of Watervliet, and village of Green Island, in the County of Albany.

The certificate appears to have been recorded without having an Internal Revenue Stamp affixed thereto.

III. The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Ambrose Church, in the City of New-York.

The certificate of Incorporation, of which a certified copy is presented to the Committee, appears to have been recorded in the County Clerk's Office, instead of the Register's Office.

The certificate states that the notice for the meeting was duly given to the congregation in the time of morning service, while an affidavit accompanying the papers testifies that the notice was read "after morning service;" the act requires it to be given "in the time of morning service."

IV. The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church, in the town of Gouverneur, in the County of St. Lawrence.

The certificate states that the Church or congregation "is not already Incorporated." The act requires that the persons met for the purpose of incorporating themselves "be not already incorporated."

V. A certificate of Incorporation of "the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the Church of the Atonement, in Madison Avenue, in the City of New-York," has also been examined by the Committee. The original certificate has been presented. In three places in the body of the instrument, a date has been obliterated and a different date interlined above; in two of these instances the interlineation has again been obliterated, and the original