other minister do willingly submit to any requisition, so as to withdraw from any such meeting before its conclusion, he shall, on proof thereof, receive due censure at the ensuing Annual Conference.

SECTION V.

The Financial District Meeting.

184. A Financial District Meeting shall be held in each District, not later than the month of September in each year; the day and place to be determined by the Chairman.

185. The Financial District Meeting shall be composed of the Superintendent and one lay delegate from each Circuit and Mission in the District appointed by the Quarterly Official Board. Where a Quarterly Official Board fails to elect a representative to the Financial District Meeting, the Recording Steward of the Circuit shall be such representative. The lay delegates must be members of the Church. A probationer in charge of a Circuit or Mission on which there is no resident Superintendent shall be a member of the Financial District Meeting.

186. The business of the Financial District Meeting shall be.

1. To apportion to the several Circuits the amounts placed at its disposal by the Annual Conference.

2. To examine into the circumstances and probable income of the Domestic, Indian, Foreign or other Missions within the jurisdiction of the District in the same way as

they examine into those of the dependent Circuits, and recommend the amount which, in their judgment, should be appropriated towards the support of such Missions; which shall be immediately reported by the Chairman to the President of the Annual Conference and to the Missionary Secretary.

3. To arrange the claims of the children of ministers on the District, and to receive from the Chairman of the District the amount to be raised by each Circuit and Mission for the Superannuation or Supernumerary Fund, and take into account the circumstances of any Circuit or Mission which may be regarded as exceptional, and make provision for the relief of such exception; provided the District as a whole contribute the amount designated as its proportion.

4. To make arrangements for Missionary and Educational Meetings, which arrangements shall be binding on all concerned, and inquire into the state of religion in the District, and devise means for the promotion of the spiritual interests of the Church.

Miscellaneous.

187. In case of the death of the District Representative to the Annual Conference Missionary Committee, or when, by the formation of a new District or otherwise, there is no District Representative, then the laymen present at the Financial District Meeting shall elect, by ballot, one of their number to fill the office of District Representative. 188. The Financial Secretary shall be the Treasurer of

all Connexional Funds on the District, except the Missionary Fund, and shall pay to the Superintendents of Circuits, or on their order, the sums appropriated to their Circuits, which payments such Superintendents shall report to their respective Quarterly Official Boards.

189. The Financial Secretary shall, forthwith after each Financial District Meeting, furnish the Treasurers of the Superannuation or Supernumerary Fund with a complete statement of the amounts required from each Circuit, as adopted by the Financial District Meeting.

CHAPTER III.

CIRCUIT OFFICIAL MEETINGS.

SECTION I.

The Quarterly Official Board.

190. There shall be a Quarterly Official Board on each Circuit, Mission or Station, as constituted and designated at the Annual Conference, consisting of the Ministers and Probationers for the ministry, the Local Preachers, the Exhorters, the Circuit Stewards, the Leader and one Assistant Leader of each class, the Leader of each catechumen class, approved by the members of the Quarterly Official Board, the Superintendents of Sabbath Schools and the Presidents of Epworth Leagues, being members of the Church and approved by the Quarterly Official Board, one representative from each Board of Trustees, he being

a member of the Church in the Circuit to which the Trustee Board which he represents belongs, and whose appointment shall be annual; and, also, of additional representatives who may have been appointed by the Societies of the Circuit. The number of such additional representatives shall not exceed the number of the Stewards on the Circuit. Only members over twenty-one years of age shall have the right to vote on questions involving financial liability.

191. The Superintendent of the Circuit is the Chairman of the Quarterly Official Board. When the Chairman of the District is present he shall have the right to preside.

192. The Superintendent is the minister on each Circuit and Mission, who is appointed from time to time to take charge of the Societies therein.

193. The regular business of the Quarterly Official Board shall be:

1. To receive the financial returns from the Leaders, Stewards and other persons entrusted with the funds of the Circuit; to pay the salaries and all the expenses of the ministers and probationers for the ministry; to receive from the Leaders' Meeting the report of the disbursement of the fund for the poor for the quarter; and to receive the reports of the state of the Sunday Schools and Epworth Leagues on the Circuit.

2. To receive and try appeals.

3. At the First meeting of the Quarterly Official Board, to receive the recommendations of the Stewards' Meeting, and make the estimate of the amounts necessary for the family or families of the ministers or probationers for the

ministry; and appoint the lay delegate to attend the Financial District Meeting.

4. At the Second meeting of the Quarterly Official Board, to appoint, on the nomination of the Superintendent, the Stewards of the Circuit, of whom there shall be not less than three nor more than seven, one of whom shall be the Recording Steward, who shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Quarterly Official Board in a book procured for that purpose. The Superintendent shall nominate at least three more than the number of Stewards to be elected; after the nominations are all made the election shall be by ballot. The Superintendent shall nominate two or more of the Stewards for Recording Steward, and the Board shall elect by ballot. It shall also, on the nomination of the Superintendent of the Circuit, appoint the representatives to the Sabbath School Committee, the number to be not less than three nor more than five.

5. At the First, Second, or Third meeting of the Quarterly Official Board, to recommend candidates for the ministry; provided always, that no person shall be recommended as a candidate until he has been a local preacher at least six months.

6. Young men attending College, who may wish to be. come local preachers, may be received by the Quarterly Official Boards of their Circuits as candidates, after due examination, provided they present certificates of moral and religious character from the Dean of the Faculty.

7. At the Third meeting of the Quarterly Official Board, to receive the audited statement of Trustees, referred to in Sections 11 and 23 of the Model Deed.