the State of Tennessee west of and including the counties of Franklin, Coffee, Warren, White, Putnam, Overton, and Pickett in said State.

$107. TEXAS CONFERENCE shall include so much of the State of Texas as lies east of a line beginning at the Gulf of Mexico on the east line of Matagorda County, and running along said line and the east line of Wharton and Colorado Counties to the north point of Colorado County; thence north until it strikes the Central Railroad at Calvert; thence along the line of said railroad to the northern boundary of Texas, excluding Calvert and all the towns on the line of said road.

108. TROY CONFERENCE shall include that portion of the State of New York embraced in the counties of Rensselaer, Washington, Clinton, Essex, Warren, Saratoga, Schenectady, Montgomery (except St. Johnsville), Fulton (except the towns of Oppenheim and Stratford), Albany (except Coeymans, Coeymans Hollow, and South Bethlehem), Schoharie (except Blenheim, Charlotteville, Eminence, Gilboa, Livingstonville, and Summit); in Columbia County, the towns of Stuyvesant, Kinderhook, New Lebanon, and Chatham (except Chatham Village and East Chatham); in Franklin County the towns of Standish, Saranac Lake, and the appointments connected with Bloomingdale Circuit; in Hamilton County the towns of Benson, Hope, Wells, Indian Lake, and Blue Mountain Lake; and in Otsego County Center Valley; also that portion of the State of Vermont embraced in the counties of Addison, Bennington, and Rutland (except Cuttingsville, Mount Holly, East Wallingford, Summit, and Healdsville); and in Chittenden County the towns of Charlotte, Hinesburg, Huntington, Williston, Shelburne, Burlington, and Winooski; also in the State of Massachusetts all that part of Berkshire County lying upon the line of the Boston and Albany Railroad, and north of said line.

§ 109. UPPER IOWA CONFERENCE shall be bounded as follows, namely, beginning at the northeast corner of the State of Iowa; thence down the Mississippi to Davenport; thence west on the north line of the Iowa Conference to the southeast corner of Story County; thence north to the State line so as to include Iowa Falls; thence east on said line to the place of beginning.

$110. UPPER MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE shall include all of the State of Mississippi not included in the Mississippi Conference, except the work among the white people.

§ 111. VERMONT CONFERENCE shall include the State of Vermont, save that section lying south of the Winooski River and west of the Green Mountain divide; said boundary to leave Winooski Charge in the Troy Conference, and Mechanicsville and Cuttingsville in the Vermont Conference.

§ 112. VIRGINIA CONFERENCE shall include all that part of the State of Virginia not embraced in the Baltimore and Wilmington Conferences, and also the counties of Pocahontas, Greenbrier, Monroe, Pendleton, and Hardy, in the State of West Virginia.

§ 113. WASHINGTON CONFERENCE shall include Western Maryland, the District of Columbia, the State of West Virginia, except the counties of Mercer, Wyoming, and McDowell; so much of the State of Pennsylvania as lies west of the Susquehanna River, including the towns on said river; and so much of the State of Virginia as is not included in the East Tennessee, Delaware, and North Carolina Conferences.

$114. WEST GERMAN CONFERENCE shall include the States of Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado, the Territory of Oklahoma, and so much of the State of Missouri as lies west of a line commencing at the southeast corner of the State of Kansas; thence direct to the southeast corner of Morgan County, Missouri; thence north to the northeast corner of Charlton County, Missouri; thence to the northeast corner of Worth County, Missouri.

§ 115. WEST NEBRASKA CONFERENCE shall include all that part of the State of Nebraska lying west of the west line of range twelve, west of the sixth principal meridian, and south of the sixth standard parallel north, except such portions of Sheridan, Box Butte, and Sioux Counties as are south of said line.

116. WEST TEXAS CONFERENCE shall embrace so much of the State of Texas as is not included in the Texas Conference. $117. WEST VIRGINIA CONFERENCE shall be bounded as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of the State of Pennsylvania; thence along the west line of Pennsylvania to the northeast corner of Ohio County, West Virginia, so as to in

clude Dallas Circuit and Triadelphia Circuit; thence by the most direct way to Short Creek, so as to include Short Creek and Liberty Circuit; thence down Short Creek to the Ohio River; thence down said river to the mouth of the Big Sandy River; on the west by the State line; on the south and east by the Virginia and Baltimore Conferences to the Pennsylvania State line; thence westward along said line to the place of beginning.

118. WEST WISCONSIN CONFERENCE shall include that part of the State of Wisconsin not embraced in the Wisconsin Conference.

§ 119. WESTERN NORWEGIAN-DANISH CONFERENCE shall include the Norwegian and Danish work in the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, California, and Utah.

$120. WESTERN SWEDISH CONFERENCE shall include all of the Swedish work in the States of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska.

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

§ 122. 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 Greene County, on 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.

§ 123. 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.

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CHAPTER III.

BOUNDARIES OF MISSIONS.

439. In the United States and Territories.

§ 1. ARIZONA MISSION shall include the State of Arizona. § 2. BLACK HILLS MISSION CONFERENCE shall include all that part of the State of South Dakota west of the meridian 101 degrees west longitude; and that part of the State of North Dakota south of the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude, and west of meridian 101 degrees; it shall also include Crook County, Wyoming.

§3. GULF MISSION CONFERENCE shall include our white work in the State of Louisiana south of Red River and west of the Atchafalaya River, and that portion of the State of Texas south of the Texas Pacific Railroad and east of the International and Great Northern Railroad, leaving Houston, Harrisburg, and Galveston in the Austin Conference.

§ 4. NAVAJO INDIAN MISSION shall include the Navajo Indian Reservation lying in Northeastern Arizona and Northwestern New Mexico; also the Moqui Reservation adjoining.

§ 5. 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.

§ 6. NEW MEXICO ENGLISH MISSION shall include the Territory of New Mexico and the county of El Paso, Texas.

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

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

cluding 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 northward to the British possessions; thence east to Dakota, and south to point of departure.

$9. NORTH PACIFIC GERMAN MISSION CONFERENCE shall include the German work in the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

8.10. NORTHERN SWEDISH MISSION CONFERENCE shall include all of the Swedish work in Minnesota, Northern Michigan, and Wisconsin, except Racine.

§ 11. UTAH MISSION shall include the State of Utah.

12. WYOMING MISSION shall include the State of Wyoming, except National Park and Crook County.

440. In Foreign Countries.

§ 1. BULGARIA. 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.

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

§3. CHINA. Hinghua Mission Conference shall consist of the Hinghua Prefecture, and of such adjoining territory as may be set off with it by a vote of the majority of the members of the Foochow Conference present and voting at the ensuing session. § 4. CHINA. West China Mission shall include West China, with its central station at Chung-King, in the Province of SzeChuen.

§ 5. CONGO. Congo Mission Conference shall include the whole of Africa south of the equator.

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

§ 7. KOREA. Korea Mission shall include the Kingdom of Korea; with its central station at Seoul, the capital of the kingdom.