¶ 71. The Annual Conference has power to hear complaints against Traveling Preachers, and may try, reprove, suspend, deprive of Ministerial Office and Credentials, expel or acquit, any Member of the Annual Conference against whom charges may have been preferred; and in case any Member of the Annual Conference be deposed from the Ministry without being expelled from the Church, he shall have his Membership in the Church where he resides.

¶ 72. The business of the Annual Conference is, to inquire,

1. Who are Received by Transfer, and from what Conferences?

2. Who are Admitted on Trial?

3. Who Remain on Trial?

4. Who are Discontinued?

5. Who are admitted into Full Connection?

6. Who are Re-admitted?

7. Who are Received on Credentials from other Churches?

8. What Traveling Preachers have been elected Deacons?

9. What Traveling Preachers have been ordained Deacons?

10. What Local Preachers have been elected Deacons?

11. What Local Preachers have been ordained Deacons?

12. Who are the Traveling Deacons of the First Class?

13. Who are the Traveling Deacons of the Second Class?

14. What Traveling Deacons have been elected Elders?

15. What Traveling Deacons have been ordained Elders?

16. What Local Deacons have been elected Elders?

17. What Local Deacons have been ordained Elders?

18. Who are the Supernumerary Preachers? 19. Who are the Superannuated Preachers? 20. Was the character of each Preacher examined?

21. Have any Died?

22. Have any been Transferred, and to what Conferences?

23. Have any Withdrawn?

24. Have any been Located at their own request?

25. Have any been Located?

26. Have any been permitted to Withdraw under charges or complaints?

27. Have any been Expelled?

28. Who are selected to be the Triers of Appeals?

29. What is the Statistical Report for this Conference year?

NOTE 1.-Statistics No. I must be published in the General Minutes.

NOTE 2.-The several Annual Conferences are required invariably to publish Statistics Nos. I and II in their own Minutes. The publication of Statistics No. III is optional with the respective Conferences.

NOTE 3.-Statistical Secretaries of the Annual Conferences must furnish Statistics No. III to the Editor of Sunday School Books and Papers for use in his office.

Statistics No. I.

(1.) MEMBERSHIP.-Probationers. Full Members. Local Preachers.

Deaths.

(2.) BAPTISMS. - Number of Children Baptized. Number of Adults Baptized.

(3.) CHURCH PROPERTY.-Number of Churches. Probable Value. Number of Parsonages. Probable Value. Paid for Building and Improving Churches and Parsonages. Paid on Old Indebtedness on Church Property. Present Indebtedness. Current Expenses, (for Sexton, Light, Fuel, etc.)

(4.) SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. - Number of Schools. Number of Officers and Teachers. Number of Scholars of all Ages.

(5.) BENEVOLENT COLLECTIONS. -For Missions —ɑ. From Churches: b. from Sunday-Schools. For the Board of Church Extension. For the Sunday School Union. For the Tract Society. For the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society. For Education. For the American

Bible Society. For the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. For the Woman's Home Missionary Society. Other Collections.

(6.) MINISTERIAL SUPPORT. - For Pastors, Presiding Elders, and Bishops. For Conference Claimants.

NOTE. The General Conference has ordered that in reporting the amount raised in each Pastoral Charge for "Ministerial Support" the amount reported shall include the several suns raised for the support of the Pastor, for the support of the Presiding Elder, and for the support of the Bishops and shall also include the rent paid for a House for the Pastor; and in case the Pastor occupies a Parsonage, then it shall include, instead of rent paid, a sum equal to a fair rental value of the said Parsonage.

MINISTERIAL SUPPORT.-Claim of the Pastor, including the rental value of Parsonage, or House rent. [If there is a Parsonage, indicate that fact by an asterisk placed after the amount of claim, thus: e. g., “Claim, $853."*] Receipts of the Pastor, including the rental value of Parsonage, or House rent.* Deficiency. Amount apportioned for the support of the Presiding Elder; amount paid the Presiding Elder. Amount apportioned for the support of the Bishops; amount paid for support of the

* Any Conference desiring to do so may use separate columns, in Statistics No. II, for House Rent and Travel ing Expenses.

Bishops. Amount apportioned for Conference Claimants; amount paid for Conference Claim

ants.

\ Statistics No. III.

SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.-Number of Sunday-Schools. Number of Officers and Teachers. Number of Scholars of all ages. Number in Infant Class. Average Attendance of Teachers and Scholars. Number of Library Books. Total Expenses of the School this year. Number of Officers and Teachers who are Church Members or Probationers. Number of Scholars who are Members or Probationers. Number of Conversions.

NOTE. The report of Conference Treasurer shall be a summary showing the increase or decrease, by Districts, as compared with the previous year.

30. What is the Conference Treasurer's report for this Conference year?

31. What are the Claims on the Conference Fund?

32. What has been Received on these Claims, and how has it been Applied?

33. Where are the Preachers Stationed?

34. Where shall the next Conference be held? ¶ 73. The Electing and Ordaining of Deacons and Elders is to be done in the Aunual Confer

ences.

¶ 74. It shall be the duty of each Annual Conference to examine strictly into the state of the