The third annual meeting was held at the Union Church Lecture Hall on Monday afternoon, 30th May. The business mainly consisted in the presentation of reports for the year from the Hon. Seoretary and Treasurer, and the election of officers for the Local Branch, and of three members to the Executive Committee of the China Missionary Alliance in place of those retiring in rotation. The chief items of interest mentioned in the Secretary's statement were contained in a communication from the Secretary of the Alliance, reporting (1) That a sories of "Rules for the Regulation of Mission Work in China," Brought to the notice of the Executive rebared by the Waiwupu, had been
Committee, and that they had enquired of the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps in Peking and the British and American Ministers if they had any oficial knowledge of the suggestion. Their reply wa that the proposed rules had not been presented to them for consideration, and that their consent to such regulations would not be obtained without means being first given for an expression of missionary opinion thereupon: and (2) The efforts of the Executive Committee to obtain statistics of missionary work in China.
The present membership of the Shanghai Branch is 100.
The following were elected officers of the Local Branch for the year 1904-;
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