tion limited to the Foreign Mission field for which he was elected.

¶ 167. A Missionarv Bishop is not, in the meaning of the Discipline, a General Superintendent.

¶ 168. A Missionary Bishop is not subordinate to the General Superintendents, but is co-ordinate with them in authority in the field to which he is appointed, and is amenable for his conduct to the General Conference, as is a General Superintendent.

¶ 169. The election of a Missionary Bishop carries with it the assignment to a specified Foreign Mission field, and such Bishop cannot be made a General Superintendent except by a distinct election to that office.

¶ 170. A Missionary Bishop should receive his support from the Episcopal Fund.

171. A Missionary Bishop should, in his field, co-operate with the Missionary Society of the Church in the same way that a General Superintendent co-operates in the Foreign Mission field over which he has Episcopal charge.

¶ 172. When a Missionary Bishop, by death or other cause, ceases to perform Episcopal duty for the foreign field to which he was assigned by the General Conference, the General Superintend ents at once take supervision of said field.

¶ 173. In the matter of a transfer of a Preacher from a field within the jurisdiction of

a Missionary Bishop, to a Conference under the Episcopal supervision of a General Superintendent, or from a Conference under the Episcopal supervision of a General Superintendent, to a field within the jurisdiction of a Missionary Bishop, it shall require mutual agreement between the two Bishops, and a similar agreement shall be required between the two Bishops having charge, when the proposed transfer is between two foreign fields, over which there are Missionary Bishops.

¶ 174. In case of a complaint against, or the trial of a Missionary Bishop, the preliminary steps shall be as in the case of a General Superintendent, but the Missionary Bishop may be tried before a Judicial Conference in the United States of America.

Presiding Elders and their Duty.

¶ 175. Presiding Elders are to be chosen by the Bishops, by whom they are also to be stationed and changed.

¶ 176. A Bishop may allow an Elder to preside in the same District for any term not exceeding six years; after which he shall not be appointed to the same District for six years; but Presiding Elders in Missions and in Mission Conferences in heathen lands may be appointed to

the same District for more than six successive

years.

¶ 177. The duties of a Presiding Elder are: § 1. To travel through his appointed District.

2. In the absence of a Bishop to take charge of all the Elders and Deacons, Traveling and Local Preachers and Exhorters in his District.

§ 3. To change, receive, and suspend Preachers in his District during the interval between the sessions of the Conference, and in the absence of a Bishop, as the Discipline directs; provided, however, that a Presiding Elder shall not change a Preacher in his District from a Charge to which he has been appointed by a Bishop and appoint him to another to which he could not be legally appointed by a Bishop. The law of limitation applies also to Superannuated and Local Preachers who are employed in the Pastoral work.

§ 4. It shall also be his duty to be present, as far as practicable, at all the Quarterly Meetings, especially the first and fourth; to call together the Quarterly Conference to hear Complaints, to receive and try Appeals, to renew all Licenses approved by the Quarterly Conference, and to transact such other business as is provided for under the caption "The Quarterly Conferences;' and to furnish the member of the General Missionary Committee for his Mission District, prior to the annual meeting of that Committee, a writ

ten statement of the condition of the Missions under his care, and their pecuniary wants.

§ 5. To oversee the Spiritual and Temporal business of the Church in his District; to see that all Charters, Deeds, and other Conveyances of Church Property in his District conform strictly to the laws, usages, and forms of the State or Territory within which such property is situate, and to the Discipline; to see that all Church property is well insured; to promote by all proper means the cause of Missions, Church Extension, and Sunday-Schools; to report to the Annual Conference the Statistics of the

Literary and Theological Institutions located within the bounds of his District, and under the care of our Church, according to the form published in the Appendix to the Discipline; to carefully inquire at each Quarterly Conference whether the Rules respecting the Instruction of Children have been faithfully observed; and to report to the Annual Conference the names of all Traveling Preachers within his District who shall neglect to observe those Rules.

§ 6. To take care that every part of our Discipline be enforced in his District; to decide all Questions of Law involved in proceedings pending in a District or Quarterly Conferenee, subject to an Appeal to the President of the next Annual Conference; but in all cases the Application of Law shall be with the Conference.

§ 7. It shall be his further duty to attend the Bishop when present in his District; and to give him by letter, when absent, all necessary information of the state of his District.

§ 8. To direct the attention of Candidates for the Ministry to the advantages of a thorough training in the Literary and Theological Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also to direct those who are admitted on Trial to those Studies which have been recommended by the Bishops.

§ 9. To explain to those Preachers who are on Trial, as well as to those who are in futnre to be proposed for Trial, that they may be either admitted or rejected without doing them any wrong.

¶ 178. If any Preacher absent himself from his Circuit or Station the Presiding Elder shall, as far as possible, fill his place with another Preacher, who shall be paid for his labors out of the allowance of the absent Preacher, in proportion to his usual allowance.

¶ 179. A Presiding Elder shall not have power to employ a Preacher who has been rejected by the previous Annual Conference, unless the Conference should give him liberty so to do, under certain conditions.

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