The Discipline of Friends, Revised and Approved by the Yearly Meeting Held at New-Garden, in Guilford County, North-Carolina, from the 4th to the 7th of the 11th Month, Inclusive, 1822.

WHILST the yearly meeting, in granting an appeal, considers it a precious privilege, it is affectionately desired that all may be careful how they encourage persons, of improper dispositions, to trouble superior meetings therewith.

If any be dissatisfied with, or think themselves aggrieved by, the judgment of a monthly meeting, they may, after a copy of the testimony of disownment is delivered to them, notify the first or second monthly meeting following, (but not after,) of their intention of appealing to the ensuing quarterly meeting; which notification the monthly meeting should enter on minute, and appoint a committee to attend the quarterly meeting, with a copy of the proceedings relative to the case, signed by the clerk; there to show the reasons on which that judgment was founded: the quarterly meeting is then to refer the same to a committee of Friends, omiting those of the monthly meeting from whence it came; and they are to confirm or reverse the judgment, as, on impartial examination, shall appear to be right, except they find that the case has not been acted on in the monthly meeting according to discipline; and, if so, it is to be returned to the monthly meeting of such proceedings for reexamination; taking care to inform the appellant of the result.