Page images
PDF
EPUB

all of the Swedish work in the States of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota.

§ 128. WILMINGTON CONFERENCE shall include the State of Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland and of Virginia.

§ 129. WISCONSIN CONFERENCE shall include all that part of the State of Wisconsin lying east and north of a line beginning at the southeast corner of Green County, en the south line of the State; thence north on the range line between ranges nine and ten east, to the north line of town twenty; thence west on the said line to the east line of range three; thence north on said line to the Michigan State line.

§ 130. WYOMING CONFERENCE shall include the southern part of the State of New York not included in the New York, New York East, Newark, Central New York, and Genesee Conferences, and that part of the State of Pennsylvania bounded on the west by Central New York Conference, including the territory east of the Susquehanna River, and on the south by the Central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Newark Conferences, including Narrowsburg, and on the east by the Newark and New York Conferences.

CHAPTER III.

BOUNDARIES OF MISSIONS.

439. In the United States and Territories.

§ 1. ALASKA MISSION shall include the District of Alaska.

§ 2. ARIZONA MISSION shall include the Territory of Arizona, the Needles in the State of California, and the State of Sonora in the Republic of Mexico.

§ 3. ATLANTIC MISSION CONFERENCE shall include the eastern portion of North Carolina commencing at Little River Inlet; thence with South Carolina line to west boundary of Robinson County; thence northward on the western boundary of the following counties to the Virginia State line: Robinson, Cumberland, Harnett, Wake, Granville, and the following in the State of Virginia: Mecklenburg, Brunswick, Greenesville, Southampton, Nansemond, Norfolk, and Princess Anne.

§ 4. BLACK HILLS MISSION shall include Crook County, Wyoming, and all that part of the State of South Dakota west of the meridian 101 degrees west longitude.

§ 5. CHINESE MISSION shall include all the Chinese work on the Pacific Coast, except the work in Oregon and Washington.

§ 6. HAWAII MISSION shall include the Hawaiian Islands.

§ 7. KALISPELL MISSION shall include Flathead County of the State of Montana.

§ 8. NEVADA MISSION shall include the State of Nevada and as much of the State of California as lies east of the west summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains except that portion of Siskiyou and Modoc Counties, in the State of California, lying north of the ninth standard parallel.

§ 9. NEW MEXICO ENGLISH MISSION shall include the Territory of New Mexico excepting Chama, the county of El Paso in the State of Texas, and the State of Chihuahua in the Republic of Mexico.

§ 10. NEW MEXICO SPANISH MISSION CONFERENCE shall include the work among the Spanish-speaking people in the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, the State of Colorado, El Paso, Texas, and the States of Chihuahua and Sonora in the Republic of Mexico.

§ 11. NORTH MONTANA MISSION shall include that part of Montana herein described: Start at Buford; thence up the Missouri River to the Musselshell, next to

Copperopolis, including the same; thence along the main divide of the Belt Mountains to a point opposite Rock Creek; thence up said creek to Dearborn River; thence along said river to the main divide of the Rocky Mountains; thence up said creek to Dearborn River; thence along east to Dakota, and south to point of departure.

§ 12. NORTH PACIFIC GERMAN MISSION CONFERENCE shall include the German work of the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

§ 13. PACIFIC JAPANESE MISSION shall include all the Japanese work on the Pacific Slope.

§ 14. PORTO RICO MISSION shall include Porto Rico and adjacent islands belonging to its civil jurisdiction, together with any work which may be established by our Church or come under its care in any of the islands known as the West Indies.

§ 15. UTAH MISSION shall include the State of Utah. § 16. WYOMING MISSION shall include the State of Wyoming except National Park and Crook County.

440. In Foreign Countries.

AFRICA. § 1. East Central Africa Mission Conference shall include the work in East Africa south of the equator.

8.2. West Central Africa Mission Conference shall inIclude the work in West Africa south of the equator.

EASTERN ASIA. § 3. Central China Mission shall include Central China, with its central station at the city of Nanking, on the Yang-tse River.

§ 4. Hinghua Mission Conference shall consist of the Hinghua Prefecture and such adjoining territory as uses the Hinghua dialect, and the Ingchung Prefecture and such adjoining territory as speaks the Amoy dialect.

5. West China Mission shall include our work in the western part of the Chinese Empire and Thibet. § 6. South Japan Mission Conference shall include

Kiushiu and the other islands of the Empire of Japan south and west of the main island.

§ 7. Korea Mission Conference shall include all our work in the Kingdom of Korea.

EUROPE. § 8. Bulgaria Mission Conference shall include the Principality of Bulgaria north of the Balkan Mountains, with its central station at the city of Rustchuk, on the Danube River.

§ 9. Denmark Mission Conference shall include the Kingdom of Denmark, with its central station at the city of Copenhagen.

§ 10. Finland and St. Petersburg Mission Conference shall include our work in the Russian Empire.

INDIA AND MALAYSIA. § 11. Burma Mission Conference shall include Burma.

§ 12. Central Provinces Mission Conference shall include all the Central Provinces, including the Feudatory States under the supervision of the Central Provinces government, and Berar and such portion of Central India as lies north of the Central Provinces, and south of the 25th parallel of north latitude not embraced in Bombay Conference and that portion of the Nizam's Dominions lying north of the Godavery Valley Railway from Jalna, in the Aurungabad District, to the point where that railway crosses the Godavery River; further such country as lies north of the Godavery kiver from this point eastward to a point twenty-five miles west of Sironcha. The boundary line shall thence fall slightly southeast to Neckonda Station on the N. G. S. Railway, thence along the said railway to Yellandu and thence due east to Bhadrachalam and thence up the Godavery to the southernmost boundary of Sironcha District of the Central Provinces.

§ 13. Philippine Islands Mission Conference shall include the Philippine Archipelago and the Sulu Islands.

SOUTH AMERICA. § 14. North Andes Mission shall include all of South America not included in the South America Conference and the Andes Conference.

CHAPTER IV.

441. ENABLING ACTS.

The following Enabling Acts, which permit the organization of Annual or Mission Conferences during the ensuing quadrennium, shall be in force providing such organization shall not diminish the number of ministers to less than twenty-five in any adjoining Conference or Conferences affected thereby :

§ 1. The Burma Mission Conference may, during the next quadrennium, by a vote of two thirds of the members present and voting, with the approval of the Presiding Bishop, be organized into an Annual Confer

ence.

§ 2. A joint commission from the California and Oregon Conferences may, in accordance with the Discipline and with the approval of the Bishops presiding, divide their territory and that of the Nevada Mission so as to form a Mission of the counties and parts of counties bordering on the State of California and the State of Oregon as may be determined by said joint commission, the Mission thus formed to be the Klamath Mission.

§ 3. The colored work in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and other Western sections may, during the ensuing quadrennium, be organized into a Mission, to be called by some distinctive name hereafter to be chosen.

§ 4. The Central China Mission may, during the next quadrennium, by a two-thirds vote of all the members present and voting, with the approval of the Presiding Bishop, be organized into an Annual Conference.

5. The Central Provinces Mission Conference may, during the next quadrennium, by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting, with the approval of

« PreviousContinue »