Bishop having charge, and to the Corresponding Secretaries of the Missionary Boards. § 4. If there is no Bishop present at an Annual Session of a Mission Conference, the Superintendent shall preside; but if there is no Superintendent present, the presidency shall be determined as in an Annual Conference. ¶ 77. 5. Each Mission Conference at its Annual Session shall appoint a Standing Committee, whose duty it shall be, with the concurrence of the President of the Conference, to make an estimate of the amount necessary for the support of each Pastoral Charge, in full, or supplementary to the amount raised by the Charge thus aided; such estimates shall be subject to modification by the Managers of the Missionary Boards, and in the aggregate shall not exceed the amount appropriated by the General Missionary Committees; and the amount to be expended in a Mission Conference shall be paid in quarterly installments to the Superintendent, or to the District Superintendent where there is no Superintendent. § 6. Any Charge within a Mission Conference may receive aid from the Missionary Boards without having been designated in the estimates made by the Conference at its Annual Meeting. [For MISSIONS, see ¶¶ 382, 398.] CHAPTER VI DISTRICT CONFERENCES I. Organization and Duties 91. The District Conference shall be composed of the Traveling Ministers, the Local Preachers, the Exhorters, and the District Stewards within the District, together with one Sunday School Superintendent, one President of an Epworth League Chapter, one President of the Methodist Brotherhood, one President of a Ladies' Aid Society, and one Class Leader from each Pastoral Charge in the District. But if there shall be more than one Sunday School Superintendent or League President, Brotherhood President or President of a Ladies' Aid Society in any Charge, then the Quarterly Conference shall designate one of each for this service, and it shall also select the Class Leader. 92. The District Conference shall meet once or twice each year as it may determine. The District Superintendent shall designate the time and place 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 District Superintendent. 93. If a Bishop be present at the District Conference, he shall preside. In the absence of a Bishop the District Superintendent shall preside. If neither be present, the District Conference shall choose its own President by ballot, without debate, from among the Traveling Elders. ¶ 94. 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. 95. 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, as provided in ¶¶ 203211, and to arrange a Plan of Appointments for each until the next District Conference. § 3. To inquire whether all the collections for the benevolent institutions of the Church, as recognized by the Discipline, are properly attended to in all the Pastoral Charges, and to adopt suitable measures for promoting their success. § 4. To inquire into the condition of the Sunday Schools in the District, and to adopt suitable measures for insuring their success. § 5. To inquire into the Condition of the Epworth League Chapters in the District, and to adopt suitable measures for insuring their success. § 6. To inquire into the condition of the Methodist Brotherhoods in the District, and to adopt suitable measures for insuring their success. § 7. To inquire into the condition of the Ladies' Aid Societies in the District, and to adopt suitable measures for insuring their success. § 8. To inquire respecting opportunities for Mis sionary and Church Extension enterprises within the District, and to take measures for the occupation of any neglected portion of its territory by Mission Sunday Schools and by appointments for Public Worship. § 9. To provide for appropriate religious and literary exercises during the session, for the mutual benefit of those in attendance. II. Order of Business 96. The order of business for the District Conference shall be: § 1. To inquire what members of the District Conference are present. § 2. To appoint Committees on 1. Examination of candidates for License to Preach. 2. Examination of Local Preachers in each of the four years of the Course of Study. 3. Examination of candidates for Reception on Trial in the Annual Conference. 4. Examination of candidates for Orders. 5. Home Mission work. 6. Appointments of Local Preachers and Exhorters. 7. Apportionment to each Charge of the amounts to be raised for benevolent causes. 8. Program of religious and literary exercises for the next meeting. 9. Miscellaneous matters. § 3. To receive Reports: 1. From the District Superintendent, as to the condition of the work under his charge, and his own work as District Superintend- 2. From each Pastor, as to the religious condi- 4. From each Exhorter, including a statement 5. From each District Steward, as to the temporal affairs of the Charge he represents. 6. From each Sunday School Superintendent, as to the condition of the Sunday Schools of the Charge he represents. 7. From each President of an Epworth League Chapter, as to the condition of the Chapters of the Charge he represents. 8. From each President of the Methodist Brotherhood, as to the condition of the Chapters of the Charge he represents. 9. From each President of a Ladies' Aid Society, as to the condition of the Societies of the Charge she represents. 10. From each Class Leader, as to the condition of the Classes of the Charge he represents. 11. From each Committee. § 4. To inquire concerning Local Preachers: |