y for their purpose. It was further
agreed that it should be the duty of the chairman of the Acting
Committee to keep a record of all their doings, and especially
of the money received and expended on behalf of every case
claiming their interposition.

The following persons were appointed on the General Vigilance
Committee:

GENERAL VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.

Robert Purvis,
William Still,

Charles H. Bustill,
P. Williamson,

Samuel Nickless,
B.N. Goines,

Morris Hall,
J.M. M'Kim,

Nathaniel Depee,
Isaiah O. Wears,

Charles Wise,
John D. Oliver,

Jacob C. White,
Prof. C.L. Reason,

Cyrus Whitson,
Henry Gordon,

J. Asher,
W.H. Riley,

J.P. Burr,

Robert Purvis was understood to be Chairman of the General
Committee, having been nominated at the head of the list, and
Charles Wise was appointed treasurer. The Acting Committee was
thus constituted:

William Still, chairman, N.W. Depee, Passmore Williamson, J.C.
White. This Committee was appointed for the term of one year.

On motion, the proceedings of this meeting were ordered to be
published in the "Pennsylvania Freeman."

(Adjourned.)

William Still, Secretary. Samuel Nickless, Chairman.

The Committee having been thus organized, J.M. McKim, corresponding
secretary and general agent of the Pennsylvania Anti-slavery Society,
issued the subjoined notice, which was published shortly afterwards in
the "Pennsylvania Freeman," and the colored churches throughout the
city:

"We are pleased to see that we have at last, what has for some
time been felt to be a desideratum in Philadelphia, a
responsible and duly authorized Vigilance Committee. The duties
of this department of Anti-slavery labor, have, for want of such
an organization, been performed in a very loose and unsystematic
manner. The names of the persons constituting the Acting
Committee, are a guarantee that this will not be the case
hereafter. They are--

William Still (Chairman), 31 North Fifth Street,

Nathaniel W. Depee, 334 South Street,

Jacob C. White, 100 Old York Road, and

Passmore Williamson, southwest cor. Seventh and Arch Streets.

We respectfully commend these gentlemen, and the cause in which
they are engaged, to the confidence and co-operation of all the