Conference not in the United States may be heard at the discretion of the Bishop in permanent charge thereof, due reference being had to the rights and interests of all concerned, either by a Judicial Conference called by said Bishop from neighboring foreign Conferences, or by a Judicial Conference called by him to meet at or near New York, or by the General Conference through a special Judicial Committee appointed for the purpose.

¶ 282. When the case of any Minister who has been suspended or expelled is remanded for a new trial he shall be suspended from all Ministerial service until the next ensuing session of the Annual Conference.

283. Should a Member of an Annual Conference be accused of crime in the interval of the Conference session and be suspended by a Committee, and be subsequently found guilty by his Conference and expelled, his claims upon the Funds of the Conference shall cease from the time of his suspension. Should a Member of an Annual Conference be suspended and afterward be restored, he shall have no claim on the congregation nor upon the Funds of the Conference during the period of such suspension.

284. The General Conference shall carefully review the decisions of Questions of Law contained in the records and documents transmitted to it from the Judicial Conferences, and in case of serious error therein shall take such action as justice may require. The papers submitted shall be returned by the Secretary of the Committee on Judiciary in the next General Conference to the Chairman of the Delegation of the Annual Conference of which the accused is a Member.:

CHAPTER X

RESTORATION OF CREDENTIALS

¶ 285. When any Member of an Annual Conference is deprived of his Credentials, by expulsion or otherwise, they shall be filed with the papers of his Conference; and should he, at any future time, give satisfactory evidence to the said Conference of his amendment, and procure a certificate of the Quarterly Conference of the Charge where he resides, or of an Annual Conference which may have received him on Trial, recommending to the Annual Conference of which he was formerly a Member the restoration of his Credentials, the said Conference may restore them.

286. When a Local Elder or Deacon shall be expelled, the District Superintendent shall require of him the Credentials of his ordination, to be filed with the papers of the Annual Conference within the limits of which the expulsion has taken place. And should he, at any future time, produce to the Annual Conference a certificate of his restoration, signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary of the Quarterly Conference, his Credentials may be restored to him.

CHAPTER XI

APPEAL OF LOCAL PREACHER

¶ 287. In case of condemnation, a Local Preacher shall be allowed to appeal to the next Annual Conference, provided that he signify to the District or Quarterly Conference his determination to appeal; in which case the President of the District or Quarterly Conference shall lay the minutes of the trial before the said Annual Conference, at which the Local Preacher, so appealing, may appear; and the said Annual Conference, as in the case of accused Members thereof, by a Select Number or in full session, shall judge and finally determine the case from the minutes of the said trial so laid before it.

CHAPTER XII

APPEAL OF MEMBER-COURT OF APPEALS ¶ 288. Any member of the Church against whom judgment is rendered by the Committee of Trial, as authorized in ¶¶ 256-272, may appeal from such judgment to the Court of Appeals, as hereinafter constituted, by giving notice in writing of his intention to appeal, which notice must be presented to the Preacher in Charge and to the District Superintendent within thirty days after said judgment is rendered.

¶ 289, § 1. The several charges composing a District Superintendent's District shall at the fourth Quar

terly Conference of each year select from among the members of the Church on the Charge one person of experience and sound judgment in the affairs of the Church, who shall be known as a Trier of Appeals of Members.

§ 2. When due notice of Appeal is given to the District Superintendent of any District, he shall proceed, with due regard to the wishes and rights of the Appellant, to convene the Court of Appeals, which shall be constituted of such of the Triers of Appeals on his District as he shall summon, the number so summoned by him to be not more than fifteen nor less than ten, and the Trier of Appeals belonging to the Charge to which the accused member belongs shall not be one of the number so summoned. The District Superintendent shall give not less than ten nor more than thirty days' notice of the time and place at which the Court of Appeals will assemble, and such notice shall be given to all concerned.

§ 3. When said Court of Appeals shall have assembled it shall be competent to try Appeals which may be presented to it from any Charge on the District, due notice having been given to all concerned. The Appellant shall have the right of peremptory challenge; provided, that the Triers of Appeals present and ready to proceed with the hearing shall not fall below seven, which shall constitute a quorum. The District Superintendent of his District shall preside in the Court and shall decide all Questions of Law arising in its proceedings, subject to an appeal to the President of the next Annual Conference.

§ 4. The Appellant shall have the right to have his case decided upon the record of the proceedings and evidence submitted to the Committee of Trial which

heard the case below; or he may, if he shall so elect, have the case tried de novo in the Court of Appeals; in which event he shall at the time he appeals file with the notice of Appeal a written statement that he elects to have his case tried de novo. The Preacher in Charge, within five days after he has received notice of Appeal, as above provided, shall, unless the notice states that the Appellant intends to have the case tried de novo, file with the District Superintendent of the District a complete record of all the proceedings before the Committee of Trial, including any papers submitted and evidence taken, all of which must be certified by him to be correct. The judgment rendered by the Court of Appeals shall be final, subject only to an appeal on Questions of Law as herein provided.

§ 5. When it is decided by either party to take an Appeal from a ruling on a Question of Law made by the District Superintendent the party taking the Appeal must file notice of Appeal with the Secretary of the Annual Conference within the boundaries of which the Church to which he belongs is located; and such notice of Appeal must be filed with the Secretary of such Annual Conference and with the District Superintendent at least five days before the first meeting of the Conference after the decision appealed from was made; and the Secretary shall lay the matter before the President of the Annual Conference, when it convenes, who shall within fifteen days render his decision in writing and file the same with the Secretary of the Conference, who shall send a certified copy thereof to the Appellant.

§ 6. An Appeal may be taken from the decision of the President of the Conference to the next General