In the same manner as the different congregations, or members of the
different meetings, in any one division of the county, meet together,
and transact their monthly business, so other different congregations,
belonging to other divisions of the same county, meet at other appointed
places, and dispatch their business also. And in the same manner as the
business is thus done in one county, it is done in every other county
of the kingdom once a month.
CHAP. III.
_Quarterly court or meeting--constitution of this meeting--one place in
each county is now fixed upon for the transaction of business-this place
may be different in the different quarters of the year--deputies from
the various monthly meetings are appointed to repair to this
place--nature of the business to be transacted--certain queries
proposed--written answers carried to these by the deputies just
mentioned--Queries proposed in the womens meeting also, and answered in
the same manner_.--
The quarterly meeting of the Quakers, which comes next in order, is much
more numerously attended than the monthly. The monthly, as we have just
seen, superintend the concerns of a few congregations or particular
meetings which were contained in a small division of the county.
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