6. Who compose the several Conference Committees: The Stationing Committee? Sabbath Schools? Epworth League? Contingent Fund? Educational? Missionary? Sustentation? Memorials and Miscellaneous Resolutions? Statistical Returns? Temperance? State of the Work? Church Property?

7. What ministers or probationers for the ministry have died during the year?

8. What probationers for the ministry are appointed to attend Victoria University, the University of Mount Allison College, the Wesleyan Theological College, Wesley College, Winnipeg, or the Columbian College, British Columbia?

9. Who compose the Board of examiners for this year? 10. What minister is appointed by the ministerial members of this Conference to the General Board of Missions? 11. What layman has been elected to the General Board of Missions by the lay members of the Conference?

12. Who are the Conference Treasurers for the Connexional Funds: General Conference? Contingent? Union Church Relief? Superannuation? Supernumerary? Sustentation Educational? Missionary? Sunday School Aid?

13. Who are elected to fill vacancies in the General Conference delegations?

14. What new Districts, Circuits and Missions have been formed?

15. What changes in relation to church property are now recommended?

16. What is the number of church members, churches,

and other places of worship, and attendance on worship on each Circuit and Mission? What is the number of deaths of members, baptisms administered, and of marriages solemnized by each minister?

17. What is the number of ministers, probationers for the ministry, and laymen in the Quarterly Official Boards! Of Sabbath Schools? And (at the Conference preceding the General Conference) what Connexional property is returned? These questions shall be answered in accordance with the authorized Conference Schedules.

18. What has been collected on each District for the various Connexional Funds? Have these amounts been remitted at the proper time to the several Treasurers, and paid over to the several claimants?

19. What are the reports of the several Committees ? 20. Have the District Sabbath School and Epworth League Conventions been held ?

21. What further measures can be adopted for the promotion of the work of God within or beyond the bounds of the Conference, and what are the recommendations of the District Meetings on this important subject?

22. Where are the ministers and probationers for the ministry stationed for the ensuing year?

23. Who are the Chairmen of Districts and the Financial Secretaries for the ensuing year?

24. Who compose the Conference Special Committee?

SECTION V1.

The Stationing Committee.

144 1. The Stationing Committee shall meet, at the call of the President, at the place appointed for holding the Annual Conference, previous to the commencement of its

sessions.

2. The Stationing Committee shall meet as often as may be necessary, during the sessions of the Conference, for the revision of the stations, and any minister shall have the right to appear before the Committee to represent his case in regard to his appointment.

3. Any Quarterly Board interested may also appear by not more than two representatives properly authorized in writing, appointed from among its members at a regular meeting of the Board, or at a meeting of the members of the Board called for this purpose only, by the Superintendent, or two other members of the Board, a majority being present, all having been notified.

4. The first draft of stations, in printed form, shall be placed on the table of the Conference at the close of the first session, and copies shall be supplied to the members; the second and final draft at any time before the close of the Conference, as the Conference may order. At least one of the Christian names of each minister and probationer shall be published instead of the initials only.

5. The Stationing Committee shall not allow any minister or probationer for the ministry to remain more than three years successively on the same Circuit, except the General

Conference officers, superannuated and supernumerary ministers, the missionaries among the Indians and on the French and Foreign Mission Districts, and such ministers as may be appointed to our educational institutions; nor shall a minister be reappointed to a Circuit or Mission within a less interval than six years. Provided, however, that at the request of the Quarterly Board, expressed by a three-fourths vote of those present and voting by ballot at a regular meeting (notice having been duly given that the question of the pastoral supply will be considered thereat), the Stationing Committee may appoint a minister to a Circuit or Station for four or five years in succession.

6. On the division of a Circuit, no minister who has travelled successively the three preceding years on such Circuit shall be appointed to either part of it; nevertheless, this rule shall not apply to those places which may be transferred in adjusting the work by the Annual District Meeting, which transfer has been sanctioned by the Stationing Committee.

7. The President of an Annual Conference, and the Chairman and Financial Secretary of each District concerned, shall have authority to change the stations of ministers or probationers in the intervals of Conference, when the interests of the work shall appear to them to demand such change.

8. From among probationers received by the Annual Conferences during the ensuing quadrennium, the Stationing Committees shall appoint only so many as are urgently needed to supply existing fields. All others shall be put upon a list of reserve, which shall be placed in the hands

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of the General Superintendent, and from this list he shall select, on the request of any President, supplies for vacancies that may occur.

9. Ministers left without a station for the year shall be assigned to a Circuit, and probationers sent to college or left on the list of reserves shall be assigned to a District.

10. To the name of each Graduate in Arts, who is a probationer in Circuit work, shall be attached the name of the Connexional College in which he is to be examined on his Conference Course of Study.

11. The names of the colleges to which probationers are sent shall appear with their names in the respective districts in the final draft of stations.

12. All probationers in the General Course who have travelled three years and all graduates who have travelled two years are required to attend college for the prescribed

term.

Formation of Districts, Circuits and Missions.

13. Districts are to be formed according to the judgment of the Stationing Committee, subject to the approval of the Annual Conference.

14. Circuits are to be formed by the Stationing Committee, on the recommendation of the District Meeting. Provided, nevertheless, that Circuits supporting their own. ministers, shall not be divided till such divisions have been approved by their respective Quarterly Official Boards, and their approval signified in writing by the Recording Steward; or, otherwise, by a two-thirds vote of the Annual District Meeting, when the laymen are present.