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Lynn: Joseph Pescod, Bedford; William Percival, Manchester; John Pawson, York; Christopher Peacock,* Yarn; John Peacock,* Barnard Castle; Nehemiah Price,* Athione; Richard Rodda, Birmingham; Thomas Rankin,* London; James Rogers, Macclesfield; Jeremiah Robertshaw, Liecester; James Ray,* Gainsborourgh; Robert Roberts, Leeds; Benjamin Rhodes, Keighley; Jasper Robinson,* Isle of Man; Thomas Rutherford, Dublin; George Story, Salisbury; William Saunders,* Brecon ; William Simpson,* Sheffield; Robert Scott,* Lincoln; George Shadford,* Hull; John Shaw,* Huddersfield; Joseph Saunderson, Dundee ; Thomas Tennant,* London; James Thom, St. Austle; Joseph Taylor, Redruth; Thomas Taylor, Sheffield; William Thompson,* Leeds; Barnabas Thomas,* Hull; William Thom,* Whitby; Zechariah Udall, Liverpool; Thomas Vasey, Liverpool; John Valton,* Bristol; James Wood, Rochester; Richard Whatcoat, Norwich; Christopher Watkins,* Northampton; Francis Wrigley, St. Austle; Duncan Wright,* Chester; William Warrener, Dundee; Richard Watkinson, Limerick; Gentlemen, being Preachers and Expounders of God's holy word under the care and in connexion with the said John Wesley, have been, and now are, and do, on the day of the date hereof, constitute the Members of the said Conference, according to the true intent and meaning of the said several gifts and conveyances wherein the words "Conference of the People called Methodists," are mentioned and contained. And that the said several persons before-named, and, their successors for ever, to be chosen as herein after mentioned, are and shall for ever be construed, taken and be the Conference of the People called Methodists. Nevertheless upon the terms and subject to the regulations herein-after prescribed, that is to say,

First,

Note. At the end of the names, are the places where those Preachers were stationed at the time the Deed was made and inrolled. This mark shews that those Preachers have died, or ceased to travel; as none but Itinerant Preachers can be of the hundred who constitute the Conference.

First, That the members of the said Conference, and their successors for the time being for ever, shall assemble once in every year, at London, Bristol, or Leeds (except as after mentioned) for the purposes aforesaid; and the time and place of holding every subsequent Conference shall be appointed at the preceding one, save the next Conference after the date hereof, shall be holden at Leeds in Yorkshire, the last Tuesday in July next.

Second, The act of the majority in number of the Conference assembled as aforesaid, shall be had, taken, and be the act of the whole Conference to all intents, purposes, and constructions whatsoever.

Third, That after the Conference shall be assembled as aforesaid, they shall first proceed to fill up all the vacancies occasioned by death or absence as after mentioned.

Fourth, No act of the conference assembled as aforesaid, shall be had taken or be the Act of the Conference, until forty of the members thereof are assembled, unless reduced under that number by death since the prior Conference or absence as after mentioned; nor until all the vacancies occasioned by death or absence shall be filled up by the election of new members of the Conference, so as to make up the number one hundred, unless there be not a sufficient number of persons objects of such election: and during the assembly of the Conference there shall always be forty members present at the doing of any act, save as aforesaid, or otherwise such act shall be void.

Fifth, The duration of the yearly assembly of the Conference, shall not be less than five days, nor more than three weeks, and be concluded by the appointment of the Conference, if under twenty-one days; or otherwise the conclusion thereof shall follow of course at the end of the said twenty-one days; the whole of all which said time of the assembly of the Conference shall be had, taken, considered, and be the yearly Conference of the People called Methodists, and all acts of the Conference during such yearly assembly thereof, shall be the act of the Conference and none others.

Sixth, Immediately after all the vacancies occasioned by death or absence are filled up by the election of new members as aforesaid, the Conference shall choose a President and Secretary of their assembly out of themselves, who shall continue such until the election of another President or Secretary in the next, or other subsequent Conference; and the said President shall have the privilege and power of two members in all acts of the Conference during his presidency, and such other powers, privileges and authorities, as the Conference shall from time to time see fit to entrust into his hands.

Seventh, Any menber of the Conference absenting himself from the yearly assembly thereof for two years successively without the consent or dispensation of the Conference, and be not present on the first day of the third yearly assembly thereof at the time and place appointed for the holding of the same, shall cease to be a member of the Conference from and after the said first day of the said third yearly assembly thereof to all intents and purposes, as though he was naturally dead. But the Conference shall and may dispense with or consent to the absence of any member from any of the said yearly assemblies, for any cause which the Conference may see fit or necessary, and such member whose absence shall be so dispensed with, or consented to by the Conference, shall not by such absence cease to be a member thereof.

Eighth, The Conference shall and may expel and put out from being a member thereof, or from being in connexion therewith, or from being upon trial, any person member of the Conference, admitted into connexion, or upon trial, for any cause which the Conference may see fit or necessary; and every member of the Conference so expelled and put out, shall cease to be a member thereof to all intents and purposes, as though he was naturally dead. And the Conference immediately after the expulsion of any member thereof as aforesaid, shall elect another person to be a member of the Conference in the stead of such member so expelled.

Ninth, The Conference shall and may admit into connexion with them, or upon trial, any person or persons

whom

whom shey shall approve, to be Preachers and Expounders of God's holy word, under the care and direction of the Conference, the name of every such person or persons so admitted into connexion or upon trial as aforesaid, with the time and degrees of the admission, being entered in the Journals or Minutes of the Conference.

Tenth, No person shall be elected a member of the Conference who hath not been admitted in connexion with the Conference as a Preacher and Expounder of God's holy word, as aforesaid, for twelve months,

Eleventh, The Conference shall not nor may nominate or appoint any person to the use and enjoyment of, or to preach and fexpound God's holy word in, any of the chapels and premises so given or conveyed, or which may be given or conveyed upon the trusts aforesaid, who is not either a member of the Conference, or admitted into connexion with the same, or upon trial as aforesaid; nor appoint any person for more than three years successively to the use and enjoyment of any chapels and premises already given, or to be given or conveyed upon the trusts aforesaid, except ordained ministers. of the church of England.

Twelfth, That the Conference shall and may appoint the place of holding the yearly assembly thereof at any other city, town, or place than London, Bristol, or Leeds, when it shall seem expedient so to do.

Thirteenth, And for the convenience of the chapels and premises already or which may hereafter be given or conveyed upon the trusts aforesaid, situate in Ireland or other parts out of the kingdom of Great-Britain, the Conference shall and may, when and as often as it shall seem expedient, but not otherwise, appoint and delegate any member or members of the Conference with all or any of the powers, privileges, and advantages herein before contained or vested in the Conference; and all and every the acts, admissions, expulsions, and appointments whatsoever of such member or members of the Conference so appointed and delegated as aforesaid, the same being put into writing, and signed by such delegate.

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or delegates, and entered in the Journals or Minutes of the Conference and subscribed as after-mentioned, shall be deemed, taken and be, the acts, admissions, expulsions, and appointments of the Conference, to all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever, from the respective times, when the same shall be done by such delegate or delegates; notwithstanding any thing herein contained to the contrary.

Fourteenth, All resolutions and orders touching elec tions, admissions, expulsions, consents, dispensations, delegations, or appointments and acts whatsoever of the Conference shall be entered and written in the Journals or Minutes of the Conference which shall be kept for that purpose, publicly read, and then subscribed by the President and Secretary thereof for the time being, during the time such Conference shall be assembled; and when so entered and subscribed, shall be had, taken, received and be the Acts of the Conference, and such entry and subscription as aforesaid shall be had, taken, received, and be evidence of all and every such acts of the said Conference and of their said Delegates without the aid of any other proof; and whatever shall not be so entered and subscribed as aforesaid, shall not be had, taken, received, or be the Act of the Conference: and the said President and Secretary are hereby required and obliged to enter and subscribe as aforesaid every Act whatever of the Conference.

Lastly, Whenever the said Conference shall be reduced under the number of forty members, and continue so reduced for three yearly assemblies thereof successively, or whenever the members thereof shall decline or neglect to meet together annually for the purposes aforesaid, during the space of three years, that then, and in either of the said events, the Conference of the people called Methodists shall be extinguished, and all the aforesaid powers, privileges, and advantages shall cease, and the said chapels and premises, and all other chapels and premises, which now are, or hereafter may be settled, given or conveyed, upon the trusts aforesaid, shall vest in the Trustees for the time being of the said chapels and premises respectively, and their successors for ever: UPON TRUST

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