Copy of a Resolution and a Receipt

This “Resolution of the Vestry” is dated Easter Monday, 1868  and was moved to provide thanks and acknowlement of the receipt of $430.00 from the Fenelon Episcopal Endowment Fund.

The receipt for the same amount dated October 2, 1868 was issued by the reverend of the day for St. James the Apostle.

The vestry was the room in which church business meetings took place; the word also came to mean, “an elective body…composed of the rector and a group of elected parishioners administering the temporal affairs of the parish” (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary).