EDW. R. PARKER, Auditor; CHAS. W. NIGHTEN, Secretary; PROFESSOR M.
H. FREEMAN, A.M., Special For. Sec.; SAMUEL VENERABLE, ALFRED H.
JOHNS, SAMUEL BRUCE, PARKER SORRELL.

DEPARTMENTS

_Committee on Domestic Relations._--SAMUEL BRUCE, Chairman; SAMUEL
VENERABLE, CHARLES W. NIGHTEN. _Financial Relations._--THOMAS A.
BROWN, Chairman; PARKER SORRELL, ALFRED H. JOHNS. _Foreign
Relations._--REV. WM. WEBB, Chairman; M. R. DELANY, EDW. R. PARKER.
_Special Foreign Secretary._ PROF. MARTIN H. FREEMAN, A. M. _State
Commissioners._--_Massachusetts_--WM. C. NELL, _Boston_; C. L.
REMOND, Salem. _New York, Buffalo._--JAMES M. WHITFIELD, J.
THEODORE HOLLY. _Ohio, Cincinnati._--AUGUSTUS R. GREEN, PHILLIP
TOLIVAR, Jun. _Michigan, Detroit._--WILLIAM C. MUNROE, WILLIAM
LAMBERT. _Kentucky, Louisville._--CONAWAY BARBOUR, JAMES H. GIPSON.
_Missouri, St. Louis._--REV. RICH'D ANDERSON, REV. JORDAN BROWN.
_Virginia, Richmond._--RICHARD HENDERSON, JOHN E. FERGUSON.
_Tennessee, Nashville._--ELDER PETER A. H. LOWRY, CHARLES BARRATT.
_Louisiana, New Orleans._--JORDAN B. NOBLE, REV. JOHN GARROW.
_California, San Francisco._--HENRY M. COLLINS, ORANGE LEWIS.

II

SUCCEEDING CONVENTIONS

The Second Convention, pursuant to a call, was held in Cleveland,
in August, 1856, when some modification and amendments were made in
the Constitution, and some changes in the officers of the Board;
but the president was unanimously re-elected, and continued in
office until the close of the of the Third Convention, which met
pursuant to a call in the town of Chatham, Canada West, in August,
1858, when, resigning his position in the Board, the following
officers succeeded to the

GENERAL BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS

CENTRAL COMMISSIONERS--CHATHAM, CANADA
WILLIAM HOWARD DAY, President
MATISON F. BAILEY, Vice-President
GEORGE WASH. BRODIE, Secretary
JAMES MADISON BELL, Treasurer
ALFRED WHIPPER, Auditor
MARTIN R. DELANY, Foreign Secretary

NOTE.--The names only of the Central Commissioners are here given,
the others being re-elected as chosen in 1856, at Cleveland.

OTHER MEMBERS

ABRAM D. SHADD
J. HENRY HARRIS
ISAAC D. SHADD

At an Executive Council Meeting of the Board, September 1st, 1858,
the following resolution, as taken from