I. DETERMINING BOUNDARIES II. BOUNDARIES OF CONFERENCES III. BOUNDARIES OF CONFERENCES AND MISSIONS IV. ENABLING ACTS CHAPTER I DETERMINING BOUNDARIES 450. The General Conference shall appoint a Committee on Boundaries, consisting of two members, one Minister and one Layman, from each Annual Conference, to be nominated by the delegations severally, over which one of the Bishops shall preside, of which one of the General Conference Secretaries shall be the Secretary, and of which Committee thirty-five shall be a quorum. All matters pertaining to Conference lines shall be referred to this Committee; and when the Committee shall have fixed the boundaries of all the Conferences, it shall submit its report to the General Conference, which shall immediately act upon the same as a whole without amendment and without debate; provided, however, that in accordance with the provisions of T89, § 5, a Central Mission Conference may fix the boundaries of the Annual Conferences within its bounds, the General Conference first having determined the number of Annual Conferences that may be allowed in that field. ¶ 451. Any two or more Conferences which may be mutually interested in the readjustment of their common boundaries may at any time raise a Joint Commission, consisting of five members from each Conference directly interested, and the decision of such Joint Commission, in which it shall be necessary for a majority of the five members representing each of said Conferences to concur, when it shall be approved by the Bishop or Bishops who may preside at these Conferences at their sessions next ensuing, shall be final. But if the Commission so appointed shall fail to agree, or if the presiding Bishop shall not concur, then the case, with a statement of the facts, together with the records of the Commission, shall come to the General Conference for final adjudication. ¶ 452. No petition, resolution, or memorial involving change of boundaries of Annual Conferences or Mission Conferences, or the division or absorption of Annual Conferences or Mission Conferences, or the organization of new Annual Conferences or Mission Conferences out of the territory already occupied by organized Conferences, shall be entertained by the Committee on Boundaries until notice shall have been given by the Annual Conference or Conferences, the Mission Conference or Missions desiring such change, or by a majority of the District Superintendents and Mission Superintendents thereof, to all of the Annual Conferences and Mission Conferences affected thereby; provided, however, that upon a petition of a majority of the delegates representing the Annual Conference or Conferences to be affected thereby, the Committee on Boundaries may adjust the matters involved in said petition, subject to the approval of all the Annual and Mission Conferences named in such petition at their annual session next succeeding the General Conference. CHAPTER II BOUNDARIES OF CONFERENCES I. United States and Territories ¶ 453, § 1. ALABAMA CONFERENCE shall include the work among the white people in the State of Alabama and in that part of the State of Florida west of the Apalachicola River; and also the work among the white people within the territory of the Upper Mississippi Conference. § 2. ARKANSAS CONFERENCE shall include the work among the white people in the State of Arkansas and in that part of the State of Oklahoma east of and adjacent to the Port Arthur & Gulf Railroad, along the west line of the State of Arkansas. § 3. ATLANTA CONFERENCE shall include the colored work in that part of the State of Georgia not included in the Savanah Conference. § 4. AUSTIN CONFERENCE shall include the white work in the State of Texas, except El Paso County and that portion north and east of a line beginning at Galveston, thence to Ennis, with the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé and the Houston & Texas Central Railways as the boundary; all intermediate points to be in the Austin Conference: from Ennis to Red River, with the Texas Midland and Frisco Railways as the boundary, all intermediate points to be in the Gulf Conference. 8 5. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE shall include the District of Columbia, the Western Shore of Maryland, except that part of Garrett County lying west of the dividing ridge of the Alleghany Mountains and Grantsville and Swanton; so much in the State of Pennsylvania as lies within the Hancock, Flintstone, Union Grove, and Hyndman Circuits; and that part of the State of Virginia embraced between the Wilmington and West Virginia Conferences, excepting Bayard, Blaine, and Gormania. § 6. BLUE RIDGE CONFERENCE shall include the work among the white people in the State of North Carolina not included in the Atlantic Mission Conference, and also twelve counties of the State of South Carolina, as follows: Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg, York, Chester, Union, Anderson, Laurens, Abbeville, Newberry, and Fairfield. § 7. CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE shall include that part of the State of California lying west of the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and north of the northern boundary of the Southern California Conference. § 8. CALIFORNIA GERMAN CONFERENCE shall include the German work within the State of California. § 9. CENTRAL ALABAMA CONFERENCE shall include the colored work in the State of Alabama and that part of Florida west of the Apalachicola River. § 10. CENTRAL GERMAN CONFERENCE shall comprise the German work within the States of Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, and Indiana except those appointments which belong at present to the Chicago German Conference; also the German work in Western Pennsylvania, and in the Southern States not included in the East German, Saint Louis German, and Southern German Conferences, exclusive of Emmanuel Church, Williams County, Ohio. § 11. CENTRAL ILLINOIS CONFERENCE shall embrace |