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QM/B/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

 Record Group Term
Identifier: QM/B/MM
_____ MONTHLY MEETING _____ The basic unit of Quaker administration, which holds regular monthly business meetings. Only members can participate. It has responsibility for care of members, authorizes removals and marriages, maintains discipline, considers the queries, manages meeting property, fosters social concerns, and reports regularly to the quarterly meeting. _____ PREPARATIVE MEETING _____ A regularly-organized business meeting of a single congregation which prepared business to be presented to the monthly meeting. The scope of business as recorded in its minutes was normally limited to responses to queries and matters of property and school oversight. _____ QUARTERLY MEETING _____ Meetings for business held four times per year, attended by representatives of all monthly meetings in a region. It is an intermediary between the monthly and yearly meeting, serves as an appellate body for disciplinary matters, and considers problems too large for a local meeting to solve. A quarterly meeting holds the authority to establish or discontinue a monthly, preparative, or particular meeting for worship. It collects financial assessments from each monthly meeting in accordance with the quota established by the yearly meeting.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Langley Hill Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L361
Identifier: QM-B-L361
Scope and Contents

Records of Langley Hill Monthly Meeting, which include paper and electronic records (which include those digitized by LHFM from paper and those that were born digital). LHFM has historically combined all of its records into a single annual file, arranged chronologically, which includes all of the meeting for business records along with related correspondence and newsletters.

Dates: 1918-2020 (bulk 1961-2020)