Excerpt from Minutes of the Fifth Session of the Detroit Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Held in the Village of Dexter, September 26-October 2, 1860 The roll of the Conference was then called, when eighty-three members answered to their names. The Conference then proceeded to the election of Secretary, by ballot, E. H. Pilcher and W. E. Bigelow acting as Tellers. S. Clements, J r., having received a majority of all the votes, was declared elected - and on motion, W. C. Way was appointed Assistant Secretary. 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.