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Oct. 16th. 5 o'clock, P.M.

The Board met & was opened with prayer
by the President.

The same members were present as on yesterday.

Bishop Atkinson, from the Committee
appointed to prepare Resolutions in reference
to the death of Bishop Cobbs, presented the
following Resolutions, which, on motion
were adopted.

The Committee appointed to prepare
resolutions in reference to the death of the
late Bishop Cobbs, a former member of this
Board, beg leave to report, the
following.

Resolved 1st. That in the death of Bishop Cobbs
this Board has not only experienced a heavy loss in common
with the whole church which has been
thus bereaved of one of its most eminent
& useful Prelates, and with the community
which has been deprived of one of the best
and wisest and most {illegible} men of his
generation, but has itself especially suffered
in losing the services of a member whose zeal
in its behalf was intent, whose counsels
were always judicious, and whose great and
noble {illegible: merited?} influence in his Diocese, and
elsewhere, recommended to the publick {illegible}
-{illegible} and {illegible} any enterprise he was
known strongly to sustain.

Resolved 2nd that in the death of Bishop
Cobbs, each member of this board feels that
he has lost a personal, and highly valued
friend.

Resolved 3rd that a copy of these resolutions