Excerpt from Rules of Discipline of the Yearly Meeting: Held on Rhode Island, for New England Since the printing of the Book of Discipline, about twenty-four years have elapsed, during which period the new regulations Which have taken place have rendered it an imperfect collection of the rules of the Society, and the Book being out of print, the yearly-meeting committed the revisal of our Disci pline to the Meeting for Sufferings, in 1807, who having with care and diligence completed, and laid the same before the yearly-meeting, in the sixth month, 1809; they adopted the following as the Discipline of the Society, and directed the same to be printed, in order. 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.