One part of it uniformly relates to the poor.

The wants of these are provided for, and the education of their children taken care of, at this meeting.
Presentations of marriages are received, and births, marriages, and funerals are registered.

If disorderly members, after long and repeated admonitions, should have given no hopes of amendment, their case is first publicly cognizable in this court.

Committees are appointed to visit, advise, and try to reclaim them.

Persons, reclaimed by these visitations, are restored to membership, after having been well reported of by the parties deputed to visit them.