plaints against its Members, and may try, reprove, suspend, deprive of Ministerial Office and Credentials, expel, or acquit any of them against whom charges may be preferred.

¶ 79. The Electing and, so far as it is practicable, the Ordaining of Elders and Deacons is to be done in the Annual Conference.

¶ 80. Each Annual Conference shall appoint annually, for each of its Districts, a Board of Church Location, which shall consist of the Presiding Elder, who shall be Chairman, and not less than two nor more than five Ministers, and an equal number of Laymen. The duty of said Board shall be to prevent, as far as possible, the selection of improper sites, and to consider and determine all questions relating to the selection of new church locations which may be referred to it by the Presiding Elder or by the vote of any Quarterly Conference. The decision of said Board in regard to the location of a church edifice shall be final, unless overruled by the Annual Conference.

¶ 81. Each Annual Conference shall carefully observe the obligations laid upon it in the chapter on Missionary Work.

¶ 82. In each Annual Conference, the Bishop presiding shall inquire whether the disciplinary plan for the support of our benevolent causes is carried out in every District and Pastoral Charge: and of each Presiding Elder, whether he has urged in the Quarterly Conference the collection in full for all the benevolent

causes.

¶ 83. Each Annual Conference shall report, through its Statistical Secretary, to the Sunday School Union, the number of Schools within its bounds, together with other facts named in the form published by the Union,

and contained in the annual reports of Pastors, as directed in T 85.

¶ 84. That the Statistics may be accurately reported and the Benevolent Collections duly accounted for, let the following Rules be observed:

§ 1. Each Annual Conference shall appoint a Statistical Secretary and a Conference Treasurer, whose names and addresses shall be printed in the General Minutes at the head of its Statistical Tables.

§ 2. On the first day of the Conference session, each Pastor shall present his Statistical and Financial Reports correctly and plainly written, all collections and other moneys being reported in dollars only, without fractions thereof.

§ 3. In connection with his report of the amount collected for each of our benevolent causes, the Pastor shall deliver to the Conference Treasurer either the money thus raised or a satisfactory voucher for the same; and the credit given to his Charge shall exactly correspond with the money and vouchers thus delivered.

§ 4. At the opening of the second day's session the Bishop presiding shall call upon the Statistical Secretary and the Conference Treasurer respectively to read the names of all Charges from which reports have not been received, or from which incorrect or defective reports have been made. This call shall be made at the beginning of each day's session until correct reports have been received from every Charge.

§ 5. In case any Charge fails to make a report the Statistical Secretary shall fill up the blanks from the report of the preceding year, omitting the collections; and he shall indicate such filling up by putting the figures in brackets.

§ 6. When the name of a Charge has been changed the Statistical Secretary shall cause the former name to be printed in a parenthesis under the present one.

§ 7. The Statistical Secretary and the Conference Treasurer shall compare the reports of collections madė for the Statistical Tables with the accounts of money and vouchers received by the Treasurer, so that discrepancies, if any shall be found, may be corrected before publication.

§ 8. The Conference Treasurer shall receive and account for such other moneys, additional to the regular benevolent collections, as the Conference may direct; and a Committee, appointed by the Conference, shall audit his accounts.

§ 9. The Publishing Agents shall provide, 1. Statistical Blanks for the Pastor and the Statistical Secretary; 2. Blank "Financial Report" for each Pastor, with suitable "Envelopes " also printed in blank; 3. Blanks for the Treasurer's Accounts.

§ 10. When the provisions of § 3 shall have been complied with, the Conference Treasurer shall return the "Financial Report" to the Pastor with the word "Credited " either written or stamped over the Treasurer's signature as a voucher for the Quarterly Conference of the contributing Charge.

¶ 85. The Statistical Report to the Conference shall be in the following form:

NOTE 1.-Statistics Nos. I and IV and a summary of No. III must be published in the General Minutes.

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

NOTE 3.-Statistical Secretaries of the Annual Conferences must furnish Statistics No. II to the Secretary of the Sunday School Union for use in his office.

Statistics No. 1.-Church Membership, etc.

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.

Number of Probationers.

Number of Full Members.

Number of Local Preachers.

Number of Deaths.

BAPTISMS.

Number of Children.

Number of Adults.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Number of Schools.

Number of Officers and Teachers.

Number of Scholars.

CHURCH PROPERTY.

Number of Churches.

Probable Value.

Number of Parsonages.

Probable Value.

Amount paid on Building and Improvements.

Amount paid on old Indebtedness.

Present Indebtedness.

Statistics No. II.-Sunday Schools.

Number of Schools.

Number of Officers and Teachers.

Number of Scholars of all grades.

Average attendance.

Number of members in the Home Department.

Number of Officers and Teachers who are Church Mem

bers or Probationers.

Number of scholars (whether attendants or members in the Home Department) who are Church Members or Probationers.

Number of Members of the Sunday School converted during the year.

Current expenses.

Statistics No. III.-Church Expenses.

NOTE 1.-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 sums 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. Missionary appropriations are not to be included. NOTE 2.-Any Conference desiring to do so may use separate columns, in Statistics No. III, for House Rent and Traveling Expenses.

Claims:
Salary.

House Rent.

Total.

Receipts:

SUPPORT OF PASTOR.

Salary.

House Rent.

Total.

Deficiencies.

SUPPORT OF PRESIDING ELDERS.

Amount Apportioned.

Amount Paid.

SUPPORT OF BISHOPS.

Amount Apportioned.

Amount Paid.

Total Support Paid as above.

CONFERENCE CLAIMANTS.

Received from Collections.

Received from other sources.

Total Receipts.