5. No member of the Court of Appeal who is personally interested in an appeal shall sit on the case. When objection is made on this ground, by appellant or respondent, the remaining members of the Court shall determine whether he is thus disqualified.

6. Any person or Church court appealing to the Court of Appeal shall have the right to appear before the Court in person, or by representative, to prosecute such appeal. The same right shall be accorded to the respondent, but in every case such representative shall be an accredited member of the Methodist Church.

7. In all cases of appeal, notice shall be given by the party appealing to a General Superintendent, who shall, after notice of appeal, assemble the Court as soon as possible.

8. In all cases of appeal against the action of an Annual Conference the appeal must be taken within sixty days after the closing of said Conference, and the decision be given before the opening of the next Annual Conference. 9. In all cases unprovided for, the Court shall have power to frame rules of order for itself.

10. The Court shall keep a full and correct record of its proceedings; such record shall include (a) the ruling or decision appealed against; (b) the grounds of the appeal; (c) the grounds of resistance of the appeal; (d) the decision of the Court; (e) a summary of the reasons of the decision. The decisions shall be published in the Guardian and Wesleyan.

SECTION III.

The Committee on Transfers.

112. The Transfer Committee shall be composed of the General Superintendents and the Presidents of the Annual Conferences, except Mission Conferences, and shall meet annually at the call of the General Superintendent.

1. The General Superintendents and Presidents of Conferences concerned shall have authority to initiate correspondence with ministers and circuits with a view of completing arrangements to secure necessary and desirable transfers.

2. All communications from Presidents of Annual Conferences, in relation to tranfers from their Conferences, and from ministers who desire a transfer, shall be sent to each of the General Superintendents not later than the 10th day of March in each year.

3. The General Superintendent shall notify the President of each Annual Conference concerned in the proposed transfer of all proposed or desired transfers to or from his Conference, not later than the 20th day of March in each year, and the President shall immediately notify any member of his Conference affected by such proposed or desired transfer.

4. A proposal to transfer a minister or probationer, who has not requested it, may be made by any member of the Transfer Committee; provided that, in every case, notice of such proposal to transfer be given to the person concerned on or before the 15th day of March in each year,

and that no minister be transferred without his own consent, except by a two-thirds vote of the members present.

5. Whenever a Circuit requests the appointment of a minister from another Conference, the Quarterly Official Board of such Circuit shall pay the moving expenses. Ministers transferred at their own request shall pay their own moving expenses, but in the case of the transfer of a minister, who has not requested to be transferred, his moving expenses shall be paid by the General Conference Fund. Those transferred at the request of the Missionary authorities shall receive their moving expenses from the Mission Fund.

6. The Transfer Committee shall have authority to fix the date at which the transfer shall take effect.

7. Each minister or probationer transferred shall be subject to the action of the Stationing Committee, and shall be under the special charge of the President of the Conference to which he is transferred, until he is stationed.

8. The ultimate claims of any minister or probationer upon the Connexional Funds shall not be prejudiced by his

transfer.

9. The Secretary of each Transfer Committee shall, immediately after the rising of the Committee, report to the President of each Annual Conference affected all transfers to and from his Conference, and the date at which such transfer shall take place.

10. The decisions of the Committee in all cases of transfer shall be final.

11. The General Superintendent, and the Presidents of

the two Conferences concerned, shall have authority to transfer any probationer on the list of reserve to any Conference where a supply is required.

12. The General Superintendent and the Presidents concerned shall have authority to transfer, during the year, any minister from one Conference to another for the purpose of filling a vacancy, provided it be not done without the consent of the minister concerned.

13. In case an emergency arises between the Annual Conferences, making it necessary to transfer a minister to supply the work on any missionary field of the North-West or the Pacific Coast, the General Superintendents, together with the Presidents of any of the Annual Conferences interested, shall have authority to transfer such minister, provided they deem it desirable and such minister is willing to be transferred.

14. The Chairman of a District in which a transferred man has been stationed during the year previous to his transfer, shall report to the President of the Conference to which such minister has been transferred, whether or not in his case the usual disciplinary questions concerning character and standing have been satisfactorily answered; nevertheless this shall not be necessary in cases where the transfer does not take effect until after the usual examination of character in the Conference out of which the transfer is made.

15. At least four married men shall be transferred from the Newfoundland Conference to the other Conferences during the quadrennium, if such men so desire. The men transferred into the Newfoundland, Conference shall have the right to return after ten years, if they so desire.

16. Not more than one of the ministers transferred from the Newfoundland Conference shall be transferred into any one Conference without the consent of the Presi dent of such Conference.

SECTION IV.

THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

Ministerial Session of the Annual Conference,

113. The ministerial members of each Annual Conference shall hold a special session (to be called the Ministerial Session) for the business to be transacted by ministers alone, in advance of the meeting of the Annual Conference for general business. Such special session shall be presided over by a General Superintendent or the President, and shall be held at least one day prior to the meeting of the Annual Conference, as may be determined by the previous Annual Conference, or at the call of the President.

114. Should it be found necessary, a special Ministerial Session may be held at any time during the sessions of the Annual Conference.

115. The Ministers of the Annual Conference, in Ministerial Session, shall examine the character and qualifications of all ministers and probationers for the ministry belonging to the Conference, in accordance with the Discipline, and their decisions shall be final, except in cases of appeal on questions of law. They shall have authority to elect into full Connexion and ordain any probationer within