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 In pursuance of an Act, entitled an Act, to enable all the religious denominations of this State to appoint Trustees, who shall be a body corporate, for the purpose of taking care of the temporalities of their respective congregations, and for other purposes therein mentioned; passed the 6th day of April, 1784; public notice was given, in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (called Zion Church) of the city of New-York, in the state of New-York, as the aforesaid law directs: and we, the subscribers, being nominated and appointed agreeably to the aforesaid Act, Inspectors of an Election held in our place of meeting, the eighth day of September, 1800, do report and declare the following persons duly elected by a plurality of voices, to serve as Trustees for the said Church, viz., Francis Jacobs, George Collins, Thomas Sipkins, George E. Moore, George White, David Bias, Peter Williams, Thomas Cook, and William Brown; which said persons, so elected, and their successors in office, shall forever be styled and denominated The Trustees of the Corporation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of New-York. Given under our hands and seals, this fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one.