In view of all these facts and reasons, the urgency of which all friends of the Association will readily appreciate, your Committee recommend that at least $50,000 be added to the current income of the Association for general uses during the next fiscal year, and express the earnest hope that the further sum of $25,000 may be obtained for special purposes, making a grand total for 1882–3 of $375,000. J. G. W. COWLES, _Chairman_. * * * * * PETITION OF PRESIDENT E. A. WARE AND OTHERS. REFERRED TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. We, the undersigned ministers and teachers, representing the work of the American Missionary Association, mainly in the State of Georgia, respectfully petition the annual meeting of the Association about to assemble at Cleveland, Ohio, that they appoint a committee of five, more or less, who shall report at the annual meeting in 1883 with reference to the policy that should govern the Association and its representatives in matters suggested by the following questions: First. Is it the mission of the Association to work solely among the three despised races, so called, or through its work for these races to labor for the upbuilding of other people without distinction of race as rapidly as they can be brought within the sphere of its influence? Second. Should it or should it not be the policy of the Association to establish separate churches or schools for different races? Third. What should be the relations of comity between the Association and our other benevolent societies when undertaking to do missionary work of the same nature in the same field? Fourth. What light, if any, is shed upon the foregoing questions by the history of the foundation and early work of the Association? We would suggest that the committee be instructed to invite correspondence from the officers of the Association, from the officers of our other missionary societies, from all workers in the field, and from others interested, and that the report be published in the religious press at least two months before the annual meeting of 1883. * * * * * EXCHANGE OF MISSIONS. BY SECRETARY STRIEBY. At the regular meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association, held Sept. 11, 1882, the following resolution was adopted: _Resolved_, That a committee of three be appointed to invite a conference with the Am. Board respecting the advisability of transferring our African work to the Board, and assuming the work among the Indians now carried on by the Board.