When
fully agreed upon, it stands ready to be recorded. When a second subject
comes on, it is canvassed, and a minute is made of it, to be recorded in
the same manner, before a third is allowed to be introduced. Thus each
point is settled, till the whole business of the meeting is concluded.
I may now mention that in the same manner as the men proceed in their
apartment on this occasion, the women proceed in their own apartment or
meeting also. There are women-deputies, and women-clerks. They enter
down the names of these deputies, read the minutes, of the last monthly
meeting, bring forward the new matter, and deliberate and argue on the
affairs of their own sex. They record their proceedings equally. The
young females also, are present, and have similar opportunities of
gaining knowledge, and of improving their judgments, and of acquiring
useful and moral habits, as the young men.
It is usual, when the women have finished the business of their own
meeting, to send one of their members to the apartments of the men, to
know if they have any thing to communicate. This messenger having
returned, and every thing having been settled and recorded in both
meetings, the monthly meeting is over, and men, women, and youth of both
sexes, return to their respective homes.
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