I. MODE OF DETERMINING BOUNDARIES. II. BOUNDARIES OF CONFERENCES, III. BOUNDARIES OF MISSIONS. IV. ENABLING ACTS. CHAPTER I. MODE OF DETERMINING BOUNDARIES. 435. The General Conference shall appoint a Committee on Boundaries, consisting of two members from each Annual Conference to be nominated by the delegations severally, over which one of the Bishops shall preside, of which one of the General Conference Secretaries shall be the secretary, and of which Committee thirty-five shall be a quorum. All matters pertaining to Conference lines shall be referred to this Committee; and when the Committee shall have fixed the boundaries of all the Conferences, it shall submit its report to the General Conference, which shall immediately act upon the same as whole without amendment and without debate; provided, however, that in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 87, a Central Mission Conference may fix the boundaries of the Annual Conferences within its bounds, the General Conference first having determined the number of Annual Conferences that may be allowed in that field. ¶ 436. Any two or more Conferences which may be mutually interested in the readjustment of their common boundaries may at any time raise a Joint Commission, consisting of five members from each Conference directly interested, and the decision of such Joint Commission, in which it shall be necessary for a majority of the five members representing each of said Conferences to concur, when it shall be approved by the Bishop or Bishops who may preside at these Conferences at their sessions next ensuing, shall be final. But if the Commission so appointed shall fail to agree, or the Presiding Bishop shall not concur, then the case, with a statement of the facts, together with the records of the Commission, shall come to the General Conference for final adjudication. 437. No petition, resolution, or memorial involving change of Conference boundaries, or the division or absorption of Conferences, or the organization of new Conferences out of the territory already occupied by organized Conferences, shall be entertained by the Committee on Boundaries until notice shall have been given by the Conference or Conferences desiring such change, or by a majority of the Presiding Elders thereof, to all of the Conferences to be affected thereby; provided, however, that upon a petition of a majority of the delegates representing any Conference or Conferences to be affected thereby, the Committee on Boundaries may adjust the matters involved in said petition, subject to the approval of the Conferences named in such petition, at their session succeeding the General Conference. CHAPTER II. BOUNDARIES OF CONFERENCES. 438, § 1. ALABAMA CONFERENCE shall include the work among the white people in the State of Alabama, and that part of the State of Florida west of the Appalachicola River, and also the work among the white people within the territory of the Upper Mississippi Conference. § 2. ARKANSAS CONFERENCE shall include the work among the white people in the State of Arkansas. § 3. ATLANTA CONFERENCE shall include all that part of the State of Georgia not included in the Savannah Conference. § 4. AUSTIN CONFERENCE shall include all the State of Texas except El Paso County and that portion south and east of a line beginning at Galveston, thence to Ennis, with Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fé, and Houston and Texas Central Railways as the boundary, all intermediate points to be in the Austin Conference; from Ennis to Red River, with Texas Midland and Frisco Railways as the boundary, all intermediate points to be in the Gulf Mission Conference. § 5. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE shall include the District of Columbia, the Western Shore of Maryland, except that part of Garrett County lying west of the dividing ridge of the Allegheny Mountains; so much of the State of Pennsylvania as lies within the Hancock, Flintstone, Union Grove, and Hyndman Circuits; the county of Frederick, in the State of Virginia; and the counties of Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan, Hampshire, Mineral, and Grant, in the State of West Virginia. § 6. BENGAL CONFERENCE shall include Bengal, Bekar, and Burma. § 7. BLACK HILLS CONFERENCE shall include Crook County, Wyoming, and all that part of the State of South Dakota west of the meridian 101 degrees west longtitude. § 8. BLUE RIDGE CONFERENCE shall include the work among the white people in the State of North Carolina not included in the Atlantic Mission Conference, and also the twelve counties of the State of South Carolina, as follows: Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg, York, Chester, Union, Anderson, Laurens, Abbeville, Newberry, and Fairfield. § 9. BOMBAY CONFERENCE shall consist of the Bombay Presidency, the Central Provinces, except the Chatisgarh and Chanda Sections, Berars, that portion of the Nizam's Dominions north of the Godavery River, and all of Central India south of the twenty-fifth parallel of latitude. § 10. CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE shall include that part of the State of California lying west of the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and north of a line commencing at Carmel Bay, Monterey County, and running thence on a straight line to the intersection of Merced and Fresno Counties; thence along the western and northern line of Merced County and the northern line of Mariposa County to the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, leaving Salinas City in the California Conference; it shall also include the Sandwich Islands and |