of twenty-four Members, to be elected quadren nially by the General Conference. The Board shall determine annually what amount should be expended in this work, and apportion the same, according to its best judgment, among the several Annual Conferences; and each Annual Conference shall apportion or cause to be apportioned the amounts assigned to it among the Cirenits or Stations within its bounds.

¶ 406. Each Presiding Elder shall, as early in the Conference year as possible, inform each Pastor in his District of the amount to be raised in his Charge, and he shall also inquire at the Third Quarterly Conference if the amount asked for has been raised and, if it has not, urge that it be raised before the close of the Conference year.

§ 1. At the last Quarterly Conference of each year, a Committee of not less than three nor more than nine shall be appointed, of which the Preacher in Charge shall be Chairman, to be called the Committee on Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education, whose duty it shall be to aid in carrying into effect the provisions of the Discipline and the plans of the Officers and Managers of the Society for the Support of this Cause, so that at least the amount asked for each year in the Circuit and Station shall be secured. This Committee shall also see that information concerning this Work is diffused among the people.

§ 2. The Preacher in Charge shall, once a yeaz,

with the aid of the Committee on Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education, present the claims of this Work to his people, and ask subscriptions and collections for the support of the same. The Pastor shall preach, or cause to be preached, a Sermon on the occasion. He shall report to the Annual Conference the amount collected for this cause, and the collections shall be published in a column in the General Minutes, and also in the Minutes of the Annual Conference.

§ 3. The senior Book Agent at Cincinnati shall be the Treasurer of this Society, and the Board of Managers may appoint such Assistant Treasurers as it deems wise.

§ 4. The Corresponding Secretary, if a Travelng Preacher, shall be a Member of such Annual Conference as he, with the approbation of the Bishop, may elect.

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PART V.-CHAPTER VI.

PUBLISHING HOUSES.

Printing and Circulating Books and Periodicals.

¶ 407. The principal Publishing Houses of the Book Concern shall be in the cities of New York and Cincinnati; but there shall be Depositories of our publications at such other places as the General Conference may from time to time determine.

T 408. The General Conference shall quadrennially elect two Agents for the Publishing House in New York, and two Agents for that in Cincinnati; which Agents shall have authority, and whose duty it shall be, under the supervision of the Book Committee, to regulate the publications and all other parts of the business of the Concern, except what belongs to the Editorial departments, in such manner as the state of the finances will admit and the interests of the Church may require; and which Agents, if chosen from among the Traveling Preachers, shall be Members of such Annual Conferences as they may, with the approbation of the Bishops, select.

¶ 409. It shall be the duty of the Agents of

both Publishing Houses to publish such Books, Tracts, Periodicals, etc., as are ordered or recom< mended by the General Conference; also to pub lish such as are recommended by the Book Committee, and approved by the Book Editors; and they may reprint any Book or Tract which has been once approved and published by us, when, in their judgment and that of the Book Editors, the same ought to be reprinted; and they may publish any new work which the Book Editors may approve.

¶ 410. The Agents of the Western Publishing House at Cincinnati shall supervise and manage the business in the West, in co-operation with the Agents at New York; they shall have authority to publish any Book or Tract which has been previously published by the Agents at New York, when, in their judgment and in that of the Book Committee, the demand for such publication will justify and the interest of the Church require such re-publication; and the Agents at New York shall fill the orders of the Agents at Cincinnati for the plates of such Books or Tracts; and when the Agents at New York are about to issue any new work, they shall, when practicable, furnish to the Agents at Cincinnati, if ordered by them, duplicate plates, which, with the above, shall be at cost: provided, however, that the Agents at Cincinnati shall not reprint our large works, such as Com

mentaries, Quarto Bibles, Wesley's and Fletcher's Works, or any other works of more than seven hundred pages.

¶ 411. Printed Sheets ordered by the Cincir:nati Agents from New York shall be sent at fifty per cent., and bound Books of the General Catalogue at forty per cent., discount from the retail prices, and those ordered from Cincinnati to New York shall be sent on the same terms: The Pub lishing House sending the Books to be charged with the expenses of transportation. The Agents at Cincinnati shall remit to the Agents at New York during the current year as largely and fre quently as their funds will allow; and, if practicable, to the full amount of Stock furnished; they shall also pay one third of all the appropriations made by the General Conference, unless the said Conference shall otherwise order.

¶ 412. The Agents at each Publishing House shall keep a separate account with each department of the business, and with each periodical published, under their supervision, and they shall set forth in their Reports to the Annual and General Conferences the amount of sales, receipts, and expenditures for Books, Periodicals, and Depositories under their control, with whatever profits or losses may have accrued on each. They shall furnish to the Local Subcommittee hereinafter designated, at each of its monthly meetings, a full and satisfactory statement of the transac