Book excerpt: Excerpt from Minutes of the State Convention of the Baptist Denomination in South Carolina, at Its Fifty-Third Anniversary, Held at Greenville, June 25-28, 1853: Together With the Proceedings of an Extra Meeting Held With the Bush River Church, April 24-26, 1852, and the Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of Furman University, at Their Meeting at Greenville, June 24-29, 1853 Resolved, That it is the sense of this Convention that the Board of Trustees of Furman University are invested with full power to exercise all the rights and duties heretofore exercised by the Board of Trustees _of the Furman Institution; and that it was the manifest intent of the Convention, in applying for an Act of Incorporation for the University, that the Theological Institution should become a department in the and that all the rights, honors, and duties of the old Board, should be vested in and exercised by the Board of the University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.