duly
preserved and recorded; and are all legacies and donations properly
secured, and recorded, and duly applied?
These are the Questions, which the society expect should be publicly
asked and answered in their quarterly courts or meetings. Some of these
are to be answered in one quarterly meeting, and [26] others in another;
and all of them in the course of the year.
[Footnote 26: The Quakers consider the punctual attendance of their
religious meetings, the preservation of love among them, and the care of
the poor, of such particular importance, that they require the first,
third, and tenth to be answered every quarter.]
The clerk of the quarterly meeting, when they come to this part of the
business, reads the first of the appointed queries to the members
present, and is then silent. Soon after this a deputy from one of the
monthly meetings comes forward, and producing the written documents, or
answers to the queries, all of which were prepared at the meeting where
he was chosen, reads that document, which contains a reply to the first
query in behalf of the meeting he represents. A deputy from a second
monthly meeting then comes forward, and produces his written documents
also, and answers the same query in behalf of his own meeting in the
same manner.
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