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Show PROPOSE MERGER OF PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL BOARDS ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 28. Adoption of the plan for the nierper of the board of education, and. the college board and the announcement that the committee on bills and overtures had not yet reached an agreement regarding the "V charges of heterodoxy against the New York Presbytery and Union Seminary were the outstanding features of today's discussions of the Presbyterian general assembly. The merger plan provides for the ntiliza-- ntiliza-- tion of an entirely new and independent corporation lo he created either under a general law or by a special siafme in one of the states where such legislation is permissible. The new corporation is to be given power to acquire and administer t tie property of each of the existing boards, subject to tile jurisdiction of the general assembly and the provisions of any trusts relating to the property of either hoard. The hoard will he composed of thirtv-six thirtv-six members, eighteen ministers and eighteen elders, members of faculties of educational institutions being barred from membership. |