sion, either from New York, Cincinnati, or any Depository or establishment under our direction.

VI. Circulation of Religious Tracts.

T 432. It is recommended to our people everywhere to form Tract Societies auxiliary to the Tract Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

¶ 433. It is recommended to Pastors to take annually, in their several Congregations, collections in behalf of the Tract Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

¶ 434. It shall be the duty of each Presiding Elder to bring the Tract cause before the last Quarterly Conference of each year, in each Charge within his District; and said Conference shall appoint a Committee, of which the Pastor shall be Chairman, whose duty it shall be to devise and execute plans for local tract distribution.

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PART VIII.

BOUNDARIES.

1. MODE OF DETERMINING BOUNDARIES.

II. BOUNDARIES OF CONFERENCES.

III. BOUNDARIES OF MISSIONS.

IV. ENABLING ACTS.

CHAPTER I.

MODE OF DETERMINING BOUNDARIES.

435. The General Conference shall appoint a Committee on Boundaries, consisting of one member 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 twenty-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 paragraph 86, 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.

1436. 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 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.

1437. No petition, resolution, or memorial involving change of Conference boundaries, or the division or absorption of Conferences, or the organization of new 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 Conference or Conferences desiring such change, or by a majority of the Presiding Elders thereof, to all of the Conferences to be affected thereby; provided, however, that upon a petition of a majority of the delegates representing any Conference or Conferences to be affected thereby, the Committee on Boundaries may adjust the matters involved in said petition, subject to the approval of the Conferences named in such petition, at their session succeeding the General Conference.

CHAPTER II.

BOUNDARIES OF CONFERENCES.

¶ 438. § 1. ALABAMA CONFERENCE shall include the work among the white people in the State of Alabama, and that part of the State of Florida west of Appalachicola 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.

§3. ATLANTA CONFERENCE shall include that part of the State of Georgia lying north of a line running east and west on the line of the northern boundaries of Richmond, McDuffie, Warren, Hancock, Putnam, Jasper, and Butts Counties, that part of Spalding County embracing Liberty Hill Circuit, that part of Meriwether County embracing Greenville, and that part of Troup County containing La Grange Station and La Grange Circuit.

$4. AUSTIN CONFERENCE shall include the State of Texas except El Paso County.

$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 Allegheny Mountains; so much of the State of Pennsylvania as lies within the Hancock, Flintstone, Union Grove, and Hyndman Circuits; the County of Frederick in the State of Vir