APPENDIX.

(No. 1.-Page 18.)

SEVERAL Agents have been engaged in the service of the So ciety during the year. The Rev. H. B. Bascom has been exerting himself with much energy and success in behalf of the Society in Kentucky, Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania. In the early part of the year, the Rev. Isaac Orr visited some parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and subsequently, Albany, New York, where the attention of many was through his exertions directed to the cause of this Institution, and a STATE Society established to promote it. In a number of places in Yew York and Massachusetts, the Rev. George W. Campbell advocated the views of the Society and received contributions for its benefit. Late in the summer, Josiah F. Polk, Esq. accepted an Agency for the Society, for several of the Western and SouthWestern States, and we have reason to believe that he has effected much in aid of its design. Through his Agency, State Societies and various subordinate associations have been organized in Indiana, Tennessee, and Alabama. Many other individuals in various parts of the country, indeed, in nearly every State of the Union, have contributed, in a most laudable and liberal manner, time and effort and money to advance the cause of African Colonization.

(No. 2.-Page 16.)

We have alluded in our Report to the Discourses of the Clergy, on the Fourth of July, or on some Sabbath near to that day, in behalf of our cause, and to the collections which many churches and congregations have made to assist it. May we not hope that these collections will hereafter take place in every congregation of every religious denomination in our Land? What a glorious offering would this nation then annually make to the

cause of humanity, freedom, and religion! We beg leave to remind our friends throughout the Union, that the Fourth of July will occur, this year, on the Sabbath, and to entreat them on that joyful occasion to remember Africa-Africa, darker in ignorance than in the complexion of her tribes, and more miserable than Americans are happy.

(No. 3.)

The noble plan of Mr. Gerrit Smith, of New York, to raise $100,000 for this Society, in the course of ten years, by subscriptions of $1000, (each subscriber to pay $100 annually for ten years) has made some progress during the year. We would by no means despair of its accomplishment, though we regret extremely, that our wealthy friends come forward so slowly to give it their patronage. We entreat them to consider the magnitude of the object, and to lend their aid to its full accomplishment.

The following shows the present state of the subscription.
Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, New York.

Jasper Corning, Charleston, South Carolina.

Theodore Frelinghuysen, Newark, New Jersey.

John T. Norton, Albany, New York.

E. F. Backus, New Haven, Connecticut.

A Gentleman in Mississippi.

Matthew Carey, Philadelphia.

Josiah Bissel, Rochester, New York.
William Crane, Richmond, Virginia.

Fleming James,

ditto.

Mrs. M. H. Carrington,"

Mrs. Ann Fontain,

P. S. Carrington,

Wm. A. Carrington,

Gen. Edward Carrington,

Walter C. Carrington,

$100 annually by equal contributions

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A few Gentlemen near Oak Hill, Fauquier County, Va

Rev. Ebenezer Burgess, Dedham, Mass.

A Friend in Virginia.

Robert Gilmor, Baltimore.

Arthur Tappan, New York; provided the subscription be filled up before February, 1830.

George Burwell, Frederick county, Virginia.

Association of 20 persons in Rev. Dr. Mead's parish, Frederick co. Va. Hon. Edward M'Gehee, Mississippi.

Rev. Dr. James P. Thomas, Louisiana.

Four young Gentlemen in Alexandria, D. C.

The Auxiliary Colonization Society of Georgetown, D. C.

Subscribers on the Plan to raise $20,000 to purchase a ship for the Society, by subscriptions of $50 each.

Andrew Barry, Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio.

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Col. Edward Colston, Berkely County, Virginia.

Dr. Isaac Telfair,

do.

Benjamin Harris,

do.

Henry Miller, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Rev. B. H. Palmer, Charleston, S. C.

Rev. Samuel K. Talmadge, Augusta, Georgia,
P. A. Johnson, Morristown, New Jersey.

C. Greenleaf, Portland, Maine.

Rev. Thomas B. Balch, Snow Hill, Md.

Bartholemew Trueheart, Powhatan county, Va.
Auxiliary Society of Powhatan county, Va. $100.

(No. 4.)

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Office of the American Colonization Society,

WASHINGTON, MAY 18, 1825. At a special meeting of the Board of Managers of the American Colonization Society, the digest of the laws, and the plan of civil government for Liberia, as adopted by the Agents of this Society, having been read and considered, it was, on motion,

Resolved, That the Board of Managers, considering the satisfactory information afforded by recent accounts from the Colony, of the successful operation of the plan of the civil government thereof, as established by their Agents in August last, and seeing therein reason to reconsider their instructions to the Agent of the 29th of December, 1824, now approve of the principles in that form of government, and give their sanction to the same. Resolved, That the digest of the laws be referred to a committee to examine the same, and compare them with the Constitution and laws of 1820, and report to the next stated meeting. WASHINGTON, MAY 23, 1825.

At a meeting of the Board of Managers, this day, the committee appointed at the last meeting, presented, the following resolutions, which were adopted:

Resolved, That the Board, having considered the digest of the laws now in force in the Colony of Liberia, dated August 19, 1824, as prepared by the Agent, do approve the same, and declare the same to be, under the Constitution, the law of the Colony, adding thereto the following: In case of failure to find recognizances for good behaviour,, when required, the person so failing shall be subjected to such labour on the public works, or other penalty as the Agent shall prescribe, until he shall find recognizance, or the object for which it was required of him shall have been answered.

In all cases of banishment, where the banished person has no heir in the Colony, the land held by him shall revert to the Colony.

Resolved, That this declaration of the law of the Colony, shall not be construed to annul or impair any regulations which the Agent, under his constitutional authority, may have seen fit to establish subsequent to the above date of August 19, 1824.

Resolved, That the Resident Agent cause to be printed two thousand copies of the Constitution, government, and laws, of the Colony of Liberia, as established by this Board at Washington, 23d May, 1825.

JAMES LAURIE, Acting President.

R. R. GURLEY, Resident Agent.

CONSTITUTION

For the Government of the African Colony at Liberia.

ARTICLE I. All persons born within the limits of the Territory held by the American Colonization Society, in Liberia, in Africa, or removing there to reside, shall be free, and entitled to all such rights and privileges as are enjoyed by the citizens of the United States.

ARTICLE II. The Colonization Society shall, from time to time, make such rules as they may think fit for the government of the settlement, until they shall withdraw their Agents and leave the settlers to the government of themselves.

ARTICLE III. The Society's Agents shall compose a Board, to determine all questions relative to the government of the set

tlement, shall decide all disputes between individuals, and shall exercise all judicial powers, except such as they shall delegate to Justices of the Peace..

ARTICLE IV. The Agents shall appoint all officers not appointed by the Managers, necessary for the good order and government of the settlement.

ARTICLE V. There shall be no slavery in the settlement.

ARTICLE VI. The common law, as in force and modified in the United States, and applicable to the situation of the People, shall be in force in the settlement.

ARTICLE VII. Every settler coming to the age of twenty-one years, and those now of age, shall take an oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution.

ARTICLE VIII. In cases of necessity, where no rule has been made by the Board of Managers, the Agents are authorized to make the necessary rules and regulations, of which they shall by the first opportunity, inform the Board for their approbation; and they shall continue in force, until the Board shall send out their decision upon them.

ARTICLE IX. This constitution is not to interfere with the jurisdiction, rights, and claims, of the Agents of the United States, over the captured Africans and others, under their care and control, so long as they shall reside within the limits of the settlement.

ARTICLE X. No alteration shall be made in this Constitution, except by an unanimous consent of all present, at a regular meeting of the Board of Managers, or by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at two successive meetings of the Board of Managers.

The Board received from the Colonial Agent, Mr. Ashmun, early in last year, a plan of Government, exhibiting several deviations from the form sketched in 1824, but in its principles the same. These deviations Mr. Ashmun remarks, "have grown gradually out of the altered and improving state of the Colony, and are neither the offspring of a rash spirit of experiment, nor have they been made without evident necessity." At a meeting of the Board of Managers, October 22d, 1828, it was determined