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Lord, the righteous Judge, who liveth and reigneth, One God with the Father and the Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen.

Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help, that in all our works begun, continued and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name; and finally, by thy mercy, obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.Amen.

The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you, and remain with you always. Amen.

END OF THE SPIRITUAL PART.

THE

TEMPORAL ECONOMY

OF THE

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

SECTION I.

Of the Boundaries of the Annual Conferences, &c.

THERE shall be seventeen Annual Conferences:

1. THE MAINE CONFERENCE shall include all the state of Maine, and that part of the state of New-Hampshire lying east of the White Hills, and north of the waters of the Ossipie Lake.

2. THE NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE shall include the remaining part of the state of New-Hampshire, that part of Vermont lying east of the Green Mountains, those parts of the state of Massachusetts and Connecticut, lying east of Connecticut river, and all the state of Rhode Island.

3. THE NEW-YORK CONFERENCE shall include those parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts lying west of Connecticut

river, that part of Vermont lying west of the Green Mountains, and all the state of New-York not included in the Genesee and Philadelphia Conferences.

4. THE GENESEE CONFERENCE shall include the Oneida, Black River, Chenango, Susquehannah, Ontario, Genesee and Erie districts, and Sharon Circuit from New-York, except that part of Erie district south-west of Cataraugus Creek.

5. THE CANADA CONFERENCE, shall include all the Upper Province of Canada.

6. THE PITTSBURG CONFERENCE shall commence at the mouth of Cataraugus Creek on Lake Erie, thence to Olean Point on Alleghany River, thence eastward to the top of the Alleghany Mountains, thence along the said mountains southward to the head of Tygarts Valley, thence to the Ohio River, so as to include the middle island and Little Kenhawa Circuits, thence up said river to the mouth of Little Muskingum, thence to the mouth of White Woman, so as to include Monroe, Barnesville, and Duck creek Circuits, thence northeastward between the waters of Tuscarawas and Mohicken to Lake Erie, near the mouth of Kuyahauga so as to include Tuscarawas and Canton Circuits, thence down the Lake to the mouth of Cataraugus.

7. THE OHIO CONFERENCE shall include the remaining part of the state of Ohio, the Territory of Michigan, and the .Kenhawa.

8. THE ILLINOIS CONFERENCE shall include the state of Indiana and Illinois.

9. THE MISSOURI CONFERENCE shall include the state of Missouri, and Arkansas Territory.

10. THE KENTUCKY CONFERENCE shall include the state of Kentucky, and that part of the state of Tennessee lying north of the Cumberland River.

11. THE TENNESSEE CONFERENCE shall include all that part of the state of Tennessee lying south of Cumberland River, and west of the Cumberland Mountains, and that part of the state of Alabama lying north of the mountains which divide the waters of Mobile Bay from the Tennessee River.

12. THE HOLSTEIN CONFERENCE shall include the remaining part of the state of Tennessee lying east of the Cumberland Mountains, and that part of Virginia and North Carolina embraced in the Holstein District, and the Black Mountain and French Broad Circuits, formerly belonging to the South Carolina Conference.

13. THE MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE shall

include the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, that part of Alabama not included in Tennessee Conference, and all West Florida.

14. THE SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE shall include all South Carolina, Georgia, East Florida, and that part of North Carolina not included in the Vir ginia and Holstein Conference.

15. THE VIRGINIA CONFERENCE shall include the Circuits situated on the Yadkin River, and that part of North Carolina lying north of Cape Fear, river except the town of Wilmington; and that part of Virginia lying south of Rappahannock and east of the Blue Ridge, except Fredericks burg.

16. THE BALTIMORE CONFERENCE shall include the remaining part of Virginia not included in the Virginia, Holstein, Ohio, Pittsburg and Philadelphia Conferences; the western shore of Maryland, and that part of Pennsylvania lying east of the Alleghany Mountains and west of Susquehannah River, including Northumberland District.

17. THE PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE shall include the whole of the Peninsula between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, and all that part of Pennsylvania ly

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