of Library Books, Total Expenses of the School this year. Number of SundaySchool Advocates taken. Number of Sunday-School Classmates taken. Number of Sunday-School Journals taken. Number of Officers and Teachers who are Church Members or Probationers. Number of Scholars who are Members or Probationers. Number of Conversions.

30. What are the Claims on the Conference Fund?

31. What has been Received on these Claims, and how has it been Applied?

32. Where are the Preachers Stationed? 33. Where shall the next Conference be held?

¶ 79. The Electing and Ordaining of Deacons and Elders is to be done in the Annual Conferences.

¶ 80. It shall be the duty of each Annual Conference to examine strictly into the state of the Domestic Missions within its bounds, and to allow none to remain on the list of its missions which, in the judgment of the Conference, is able to support itself.

T81. Each Annual Conference shall report through its Secretary, annually, to the Secretaries of the Missionary Society

at New York, the name of each District, Circuit, or Station, within its bounds, sustained in whole or in part by said Conference as a mission, together with the amount of missionary money appropriated to such for the year, and also the number of years that each Mission has received assistance from the Missionary Treasury, and whether consecutively or otherwise.

T 82. Each Annual Conference shall cause the collections, as reported by the Preachers for the Statistical Tables, to be compared with the receipts of the Conference Treasurers of the several benevolent Societies, that discrepancies, if any, may be corrected before the publication of the Minutes.

¶ 83. Preachers in Charge shall report to their Annual Conferences the amount collected for each of our benevolent causes. They shall hand the money, or a satisfactory voucher for the same, to the Conference Treasurers, otherwise no credit shall be given to a contributing Charge.

T 84. In each Annual Conference the Bishop presiding shall inquire whether the Disciplinary plan for the support of our benevolent causes is carried out in every District and pastoral Charge.

T85. Each Annual Conference shall report, through its Secretary, to the Sunday-School Union, the number of schools within its bounds, together with other facts named in the form published by the Union, and contained in the annual reports of Preachers, as directed in ¶ 178, $14.

T 86. A record of the proceedings of each Annual Conference shall be kept by a Secretary chosen for the purpose, and shall be signed by the President and Secretary; and a copy of said record shall be sent to the General Conference. Also the minutes and documents of the trial of any member of the Conference who may have been condemned or censured, shall be forwarded with the record.

The District Conferences.

T 87. The District Conferences shall be composed of the Traveling and Local Preachers, the Exhorters, the District Stewards, and one Sunday-school Superintendent and one Class Leader from each pastoral Charge in the District. But if there shall be more than one Sundayschool Superintendent in any Circuit or

Station, then the Quarterly Conference shall designate one of them for this service, and it shall also select the Class Leader.

T 88. The District Conference shall meet once or twice each year in each Presiding Elder's District, as each District Conference shall determine for itself, at such time and place as the Presiding Elder shall designate for the first meeting after the adoption of this plan by the District; but the District Conference shall at each meeting determine the place for its next meeting, the time to be fixed by the Presiding Elder.

¶ 89. A Bishop, when present, shall preside at the District Conference. If no Bishop be present, the Presiding Elder of the District shall preside. And if both be absent, the District Conference shall choose its own President by ballot from among the Traveling Elders.

T 90. A record of the proceedings of each District Conference shall be kept by a Secretary chosen for the purpose, and a copy of said record shall be sent to the ensuing Annual Conference.

T91. The regular business of the District Conference shall be:-*

§ 1. To take the general oversight of all the temporal and spiritual affairs of the District, subject to the provisions of the Discipline.

§ 2. To take cognizance of all the Local Preachers and Exhorters in the District, and to inquire respecting the gifts, labors, and usefulness of each by name, and to arrange a plan of appointments for each until the next District Conference.

§3. To hear complaints against Local Preachers: to try, suspend, deprive of ministerial office and credentials, expel or acquit, any Local Preacher against whom charges may be preferred.

§4. To license Local Preachers, to renew the licenses of Local Preachers and Exhorters annually, and to recommend to the Annual Conference Local Preachers as suitable candidates for Deacons, or Elders' orders, and for admission on trial in the traveling connection, provided that no person shall be licensed to preach, nor shall his license to preach or exhort be renewed, nor shall he be recommended for orders or for admission in the traveling connection, without the recommendation of the Quarterly Conference, or of the Leaders and Stewards' Meeting of the