and the Chairman of the District; but in territories where there is no Superintendent of Missions, applications for loans must be endorsed by the Quarterly Board, the Superintendent of the Circuit and the Chairman of the District.

6. It shall be a distinct condition of each loan that the property is not otherwise encumbered, and that no other encumbrance will be put upon it without the consent of the Directors, in writing, first obtained.

7. Loans may be made repayable, if judged expedient, by annual or semi-annual instalments, covering both principal and interest.

8. Interest on loans shall not exceed six per cent. per annum, and shall be payable half-yearly.

9. The Directors shall not be at liberty to relinquish or modify the claims of the fund for either principal or interest of loans.

10. Persons who may bequeath or donate to the fund the sum of $1,000 or upward shall be at liberty to fix the rate of interest at which such sum shall be loaned (provided the rate be not higher than that fixed by the regulations concerning loans); and shall also be at liberty to specify such other conditions as may seem to them desirable, provided they do not contravene the purpose for which the fund is established. When any such donation is accepted by the Directors, it shall be carried to a distinct and separate account, which shall bear such name as the donor may desire, and shall so appear in the annual statements of the fund.

11. The Treasurer of the Superannuation Fund shall be Treasurer of this Fund.

SECTION VI.

THE UNION CHURCH RELIEF FUND.

CONSTITUTION.

I. Name.

479. The fund shall be known as "The Union Church elief Fund."

II. Object.

480. The object of the fund is to relieve only such urches as have become embarrassed through the Union. The churches to receive aid from this fund shall be ssified as follows:

1. Churches that have lost their constituency and have prospect of regaining it, and in cases where the property s been sold or is to be sold, the Trustees are still embarsed with the debt thereon, with no assets, or with inficient assets to meet their liabilities.

2. Churches that are too weak to meet their liabilities, 1 therefore require assistance for a time in the payment the interest thereon.

III. Income.

181. The income of the fund shall be obtained from colions and subscriptions which shall be taken in all the gregations of our Church, in the month of October in for the next four years. year,

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IV. Management.

482. The fund shall be managed by a Committee ap pointed by the General Conference, whose duty it shall be to investigate all applications for aid, and decide upon them, and disburse the funds at its disposal according to the provisions of Article II.

SECTION VII.

THE CONTINGENT FUND.

CONSTITUTION OF THE CONTINGENT FUND.

I. Name.

483. Each Annual Conference shall have a Contingent Fund, to be called "The Contingent Fund of the Methodist Church."

II. Object.

484. The object of this fund shall be :

1. To relieve cases of special affliction and to defray extraordinary expenses incurred in the services of the Church.

2. The surplus, if any, shall be used for such objects as each Conference may define.

III. Sources of Income.

485. The sources of income shall be:

1. Collections to be taken up on all Circuits.

2. The public collections taken up at each Annual Conference.

IV. Committee.

486. Each Annual Conference shall elect seven ministers and seven laymen, who shall be the Contingent Fund Committee for such Conference. It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider all claims properly presented to it, and appropriate all the funds placed at its disposal to their proper objects, as directed by the Conference.

487. Each Annual Conference shall provide such regulations in reference to this fund, in accordance with the foregoing provisions as it may, deem necessary.

SECTION VIII.

THE CHILDREN'S FUND.

488. Each Annual Conference may have a Children's Fund under its own control and management, subject to the following conditions and restrictions:

1. The revenue of any such fund shall be raised by such form of assessment as each Annual Conference may, in its judgment, consider best.

2. The Children's Fund Committee of the Annual Con ference shall have the power to exempt any Circuit or Mission from the assessment for this fund upon the recommendation of the Annual Conference.

3. The amount payable to each child until eighteen years of age shall be not more than twenty-five dollars per annum ; and if in any case the fund shall not be sufficient to pay the full amount, it shall be divided pro rata according to the amount at the disposal of the Conference.

4. The claims of children whose fathers are employed on the French or Indian Missions shall be paid by the Missionary Society; provided that no missionary shall receive any allowance from this fund who receives $600 or more from all other sources. And the same regulations shall apply to

all ministers.

5. No such claims shall be paid out of the Mission Funds in any Conference where the Children's Fund is abolished or discontinued.

6. The claimants on this fund shall be: (a) The children of Superannuated Ministers, such as were born whilst their fathers were in the active work; (b) The children of such ministers in the active work as receive less than $600 per annum from all other sources.

7. The Children's Fund of the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland Conferences may be continued on the same basis and under the same regulations as have previously existed in those Conferences, or according to such rules and regulations as they may deem best.