who use parsonages provided by the Church for their use and occupancy. (1901.) (¶214.)

¶720. Probation Not in Calendar Years.-A preacher who has traveled two Conference years, even though not twenty-four months, may be admitted into full connection. (1877.) (¶¶52 [6], 165–167.)

¶721. A Probationer Appointed to Teach.-A probationer appointed to teach a public school is entitled to have the time spent in that work count on the time required for admission into full connection and for ordination. (1915.) (¶¶52 [6], 165–167.)

9722. Presence Necessary for Admission into Full Connection.-Except a missionary employed on a foreign mission, who may be admitted in his absence from the Annual Conference on the recommendation of the superintendent of the mission, those who ask to be received into full connection must be present and must be approved by the Annual Conference. (1915.) (¶¶52 [6], 167, 168.)

4723. Time Limit for Elder's Orders.-A deacon admitted on trial into an Annual Conference is not eligible, after a service of two years, to the office of elder, even though he may have completed the Course of Study for that office, and may have been admitted into full connection. (1891.) (¶¶52 [19], 177, 191.)

SECTION VII

RELATING TO SUPERNUMERARIES

9724. Who Can Be Made Supernumerary?—Only a preacher afflicted in his own person. (1859.) (¶¶52 [22], 182.)

¶725. Remuneration of Supernumeraries.-A supernumerary is not entitled to any remuneration from the charge to which he is appointed, unless there be an ex

press stipulation between him and the Board of Stewards. (1872.) (¶¶52 [22], 182.)

¶726. Supernumeraries Not Conference Claimants.—A supernumerary has no claim on the fund in the hands of the Board of Finance. (1872.) (¶¶52 [22], 182, 349.)

SECTION VIII

RELATING TO SUPERANNUATES

¶727. Ad Interim Claim of Superannuate.-An appropriation may be made by the Board of Finance to one whose claim has arisen since the preceding session of the Conference. (1894.) (¶350.)

¶728. Powers of the Board of Finance.-The Board of Finance may reserve as much of the funds in its hands as may be necessary to pay during the year the funeral expenses of deceased claimants, and to relieve claimants who, by reason of sickness or other causes, may be brought into unforeseen need or distress, the Conference having the right to approve, recommit, or amend its report. (1893.) (¶¶350, 353.)

¶729. Lay Members of the Board of Finance.—It is not required that the lay members of the Board of Finance should be members of the Annual Conference, but there must be one from as well as for each district. (1871.) (349.)

¶730. Distribution of Publishing House Funds.-The produce of the Publishing House set apart for superannuated preachers and the widows and orphans of preachers should be added to the Conference collection by the Board of Finance, and distributed among the claimants according to its best judgment of their several necessities. (1889.) (¶350.)

¶731. Claimants in Ceded Territory.-In equity, Conference claimants living in the bounds of territory ceded

by the General Conference from one Annual Conference to another should be ceded with the territory; but legally they continue to be claimants on the Annual Conference from which the territory is ceded. (1903.) (¶44.)

¶732. Where Is the Claim of a Superannuate?—The claim of a superannuate is on the Conference of which he is a member. (1892.) (¶¶52 [23], 185.)

¶733. Who Are Conference Claimants?-Only to superannuated preachers and the widows and orphans of itinerant preachers can funds collected for Conference claimants be appropriated. Location for any cause instantly cancels all claims on that fund both for the preacher and for his family; but the Conference can levy an assessment and make an appropriation for any charitable object, though not so as to divert the collections taken for Conference claimants. (1913.) (¶¶52 [23], 185, 349.)

¶734. Families of Probationers Not Beneficiaries.— Families of deceased preachers on trial are not beneficiaries on the superannuate fund; but only preachers in full connection with the Annual Conference and their dependent widows and children. (1922.) (¶¶52 [23], 185, 346, 349.)

¶735. What Widows Are Not Beneficiaries.—Widows of superannuated preachers who married them after their superannuation do not become Conference claimants, because the law states that the Board of Finance shall distribute funds "to the widows of deceased preachers on the basis of the number of years that they have been wives of effective preachers." (1923.) (¶346 [2].)

4736. Family Claims Cannot Be Renounced.-The voluntary renunciation by a member of an Annual Conference of his own claim or that of his family upon the Conference funds does not abrogate the subsequent

claim of his widow and orphans. (1870.) (¶¶52 [23], 185, 349.)

¶737. Orphan Children of Deceased Members.-The daughter of a deceased traveling preacher, twenty-one years of age, sound in mind and body, is not a proper claimant on the funds of the Board of Finance. (1893.) (¶¶52 [23], 185, 349.)

¶738. Claims of Widows of Traveling Preachers.-Because the widow of a traveling preacher withdraws from our Church or unites with another denomination she does not forfeit her claim on the funds of the Church raised for Conference claimants; but it has been decided that "claims upon this fund may be forfeited by immoral conduct," and by parity of reason a person of responsible mind who withdraws from the Church and attacks it would thereby forfeit any claims on this fund, the facts to be determined by the records and law of the Church. (1920.) (¶¶158, 185.)

SECTION IX

RELATING TO LOCAL PREACHERS

¶739. Application for License or Renewal.-An "application" for a license to preach or for the renewal of a license must be made by the applicant in person, or by letter, or by some one whom he has requested to act for him. (1923.) (¶¶90, 188.)

¶740. Local Preacher's Certificate.-A local preacher who holds an authentic certificate of membership and official status more than twelve months before he presents it to another Quarterly Conference, if he can satisfy the Conference that the delay was unavoidable, does not on this account forfeit his membership and official standing. (1899.) (¶¶94, 188, 194–196.)

¶741. Suspension of Functions of Local Precchers.—

If there be rumors affecting the moral and ministerial character of an ordained local preacher justifying the District Conference in refusing to pass his character, he is suspended from all ministerial functions till the case is judicially settled. (1870.) (¶¶84, 94, 188.)

¶742. Ordination without Recommendation.-A local preacher who has preached four years consecutively from the time he received a license to preach, and one of those years has been on trial in the traveling connection, is eligible to deacon's orders without a recommendation of the District Conference. (1902.) (¶¶52 [18, 20], 121, 190.)

¶743. Local Preachers to Pass Examinations.-A local deacon or elder who enters the itinerancy on trial must pass approved examinations on the whole Course of Study. (1870.) (¶¶64, 135, 166, 167, 170, 176.)

SECTION X

RELATING TO CLASS LEADERS, STEWARDS, AND TRUSTEES

¶744. Class Leaders.-There can be no class leaders where there are no classes, since they must have been members of the class they are appointed to lead. (1899.) (¶¶94, 207, 646.)

9745. Stewards.-A member of one pastoral charge may be elected steward of another pastoral charge. (1901.) (¶¶94, 106 [25], 211.)

¶746. Stewards Must Be Members.-A person not a member of the Church cannot be elected a steward. (1914.) (¶¶94, 106 [25], 211.)

¶747. Relation of Stewards to Annual Conference.An Annual Conference took this action:

"Resolved, That the district stewards, in apportioning the claims of the presiding elder and the collections ordered by the Annual Conference, shall make the assess