its bounds who has completed his probation and fulfilled all disciplinary requirements; also, to elect to ordination and ordain probationers who have not yet completed these requirements, when the necessities of the work require it.

116. Notwithstanding irregularities or defects in the action of any former Annual Conference respecting the standing of probationers, it shall be competent for any Annual Conference in ministerial session to review and correct the standing of all probationers, especially as to their studies, during the entire term of their probation, and on the proposal to ordain and receive them into full Connexion; and the President may call the attention of Conference to any case in hand and administer therein.

117. When a minister is so unacceptable, inefficient or secular as to be no longer useful in his work, the ministerial session may request him to ask a location, and if he refuses to comply, he shall be borne with until the next annual session, at which time, if he persist in his refusal, he may, without a formal trial, be located by a two-thirds vote of the ministers present and voting. Ministers who are located by the action of an Annual Conference shall not exercise the functions of the ministry of our Church.

118. A pastoral address to the churches shall be prepared and issued by the Ministerial Session of Conference. 119. A record of the proceedings of the Ministerial Sessions shall be kept by the Secretary, who shall report the same to the Annual Conference, for information and insertion in the Journal of Conference and not for discussion.

120. Business of the Ministerial Session.

The following order shall be observed:

The Presiding Officer shall open the session with the usual devotional services, and shall then cause the roll of the ministerial members of the Conference to be called.

1. What ministers or probationers have been transferred to or from this Conference?

2. Who are appointed as a Committee on Conference Relations?

3. What superannuated or supernumerary ministers are recommended to be restored to the active work?

4. Who are recommended to a superannuated relation? 5. Who are recommended to be superannuated for one year?

6. Who are recommended to a supernumerary relation? 7. Are there any objections or charges preferred against any of our ministers or probationers ?

To this inquiry, each District Secretary shall answer for his District, after which time shall be given to each Chairman to report any charges preferred between District Meeting and Conference, and to report the progress made in the investigation of such charges.

8. Who have resigned from the ministry of our Church, and are entitled to credentials of standing? No credentials shall be given until all claims in favor of the Educa tional and other Connexional Funds are settled.

9. Who are dropped in silence for irregular withdrawal from our work?

10. Who are suspended from the ministry?

11. Who are deposed from the ministry?

12. Who are deposed from the ministry and expelled from the Church?

13. What probationers for the ministry are now received into full connexion with the Conference and ordained?

14. What probationers for the ministry remain on trial? (a) Who are probationers of four years and are continued at College?

(b) Who are probationers of three years ?
(c) Who are probationers of two years?
(d) Who are probationers of one year?

(e) Who are probationers on the list of reserve?
(f) Who are recommended to be sent to College?

The names of these shall be referred to the Educational Committee for consideration.

15. What candidates for the ministry are now received on trial?

16. What is the report of the Committee on Conference Relations?

17. What is the report of the Committee on the Pastoral Address?

18. Who are the Committee on the Pastoral Address for next year?

19. Who are the superannuated ministers ?

20. Who are the

supernumerary 21. Who are now located?

ministers ?

SECTION V.

The Annual Conference.

121. Each Annual Conference shall be composed of all ministers within its jurisdiction who have been received into full Connexion, and an equal number of laymen who have been elected as elsewhere provided.

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122. Each Annual Conference shall assemble not earlier than the first Wednesday in May, nor later than the last Wednesday in June of each year, and shall, within this limitation, determine the time and place of its meeting from year to year.

123. Each Annual Conference shall elect by ballot, without debate, from among its ministerial members a President. It shall also elect by ballot, without debate, a Secretary, who shall keep a correct record of the proceedings of the Conference, which shall be signed by the President and Secretary, and preserved among the documents of the Con. ference. The Secretary of Conference shall publish the statistical returns as reported from the Districts to Conference, and immediately after Conference shall report the same to the General Conference Statistician.

Duties of Presiding Officers.

124. 1. The General Superintendent, when present, shall open the Annual Conference, and preside during the first day of its sessions, and afterward alternately with the President elected by the Conference. In the absence of a General Superintendent, the President shall take the

chair and open the Conference. In association with the President, the General Superintendent shall conduct the ordination service, and they shall jointly sign the ordination parchments. But all other duties pertaining to the presidency of the Annual Conference shall be vested in the President elected by that body, and, in the absence of the General Superintendent, he shall conduct the ordination service.

2. Any questions of law arising in the Annual Conference during its sessions shall be determined by the General Superintendent or President presiding, but any member of the Conference may appeal from such decision to the Court of Appeal.

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3. The President of an Annual Conference shall also have authority to decide questions of law arising in the Conference Committees over which he presides, but any member of such Committee shall have right to appeal to the Court of Appeal. He shall also, within sixty days from the date of the appeal, hear and determine appeals from the decisions of Chairmen of Districts within the Conference on questions of law, notice of such appeal to be given within two weeks after notice of the decision appealed against.

4. Where the President of the Conference is interested in the appeal, either personally or because of having been concerned in any way in the trial appealed from, the appeal may be taken directly to a General Superintendent or to the Court of Appeal.

5. All such decisions and rulings shall be given in writing, and recorded in the Journal of the Annual Conference.