15. New missions shall be created only by a two-thirds vote of the Annual Conference, but only under the following restrictions: No new Home Mission shall be formed by dividing an existing mission, unless by such division(a) Part of the original mission becomes independent, or (b) the missionaries are enabled to take up new and really destitute territory.

16. No circuit which has been self-supporting for a married man shall be placed upon the list of missions without the recommendation of the May District Meeting given by a three-fourths vote, and consented to by a three-fourths vote of the ensuing Annual Conference.

17. No new Home Mission shall be formed by dividing or detaching appointments from one or more self-supporting circuits or stations unless by a three-fourths vote of the District Meeting and Annual Conference.

18. When any new Home Missions are formed, a statement signed by the President and Secretary of the Conference, giving a list of such Missions, and certifying that they have been formed in accordance with the foregoing regulations, shall be sent to the General Secretary of the Missionary Society within one month after the rising of Conference.

SECTION VII.

The Board of Examiners.

145. 1. Each Annual Conference shall appoint a Board of Examiners, who shall meet the candidates and probationers for the ministry belonging to such Conference at one or more central places, and examine them upon the prescribed course of study, by printed or written questions, supplemented by oral examinations when necessary, and issue certificates to the successful candidates and probationers on forms prepared by order of the General Conference, who shall present them to the Annual District Meeting, and shall be prepared to submit them at any time to Conference or College authorities when required so to do.

2. Each Examining Board shall have authority to accept Provincial Teachers' Certificates of the first or second class, Matriculation Certificates, and Undergraduates' Certificates. for such subjects of the course of study as are covered by these certificates.

3. Only British and Canadian Academical titles shall be recognized in the records of the Church, and foreign degrees which, in the opinion of any of our colleges, entitle the holder to admission ad eundem gradum. Such resolution shall not be retroactive. The Secretary of each Conference Examining Board shall report to the Secretary of the Annual Conference the titles thus authenticated.

4. Superintendents of Circuits shall report to the Secretary of the Board of Examiners, immediately after the third Quarterly Meeting, the names and addresses of all

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5. Candidates for the ministry shall be required to present a certificate or other evidence of matriculation (with the Greek option) into a Canadian or other British University, or an equivalent certificate from one of our own colleges; provided that a matriculant who has not taken Greek at matriculation must pass on that subject in his Conference preliminary examination; provided, moreover, when the necessities of the work demand, an Annual Conference may, by a two-thirds vote, on recommendation of the Examining Board and District Meeting, admit a candidate on his passing the Preliminary Examination provided for non-matriculants.

6. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of each Conference or College Examining Board to give a record of standing in each subject to each candidate or probationer, showing how far he has advanced in his course; and for this purpose every probationer shall forward his certificate to the Secretary for entry of additional subjects to his credit in time to submit it to the Annual District Meeting.

7. The standard qualification for young men recomCand, mended to be received into our Conferences as probationers shall not be lower than fifty per cent. in the aggregate of the marks on the preliminary course for non-matriculants and thirty-three and one-third per cent. in each subject; the same in theological subjects for matriculants in Arts; also a standing of fifty per cent. shall be required in order to pass in each subject of the subsequent course for probationers on Circuit.

SECTION VIII.

Evangelists.

146. 1. Each Annual Conference shall have power to make rules and regulations by which to select and authorize Evangelists, and direct evangelistic work within its bounds.

2. No Evangelist shall be employed whose teaching is not in harmony with our Doctrinal Standards, or whose work tends to lessen attachment to our Church.

3. No Annual Conference shall appoint a minister or probationer as an Evangelist without clear evidence that he is called of God to that work.

4. No minister or probationer shall enter upon the field at large as an Evangelist without the consent of his Conference.

5. Superintendents of Circuits employing Evangelists, other than recognized ministers of the Methodist Church, shall engage only those that are amenable to the Church in respect to the doctrines they teach, and labor under the supervision of the pastor, and with the consent of the Quarterly Board where they are employed.

6. Evangelists other than recognized ministers and local preachers of our Church, who may be employed by the Superintendent of a Circuit, shall, under the provision of the Chairman of the District, and previously to commencing their work, undergo an examination similar to that provided in the Discipline for local preachers.

7. No Superintendent of a Circuit shall be permitted to employ any unauthorized Evangelist without first obtaining the consent of the Chairman of the District.

8. When any minister is employed as an Evangelist, arrangements shall be made by which he shall receive a regular salary from contributions paid into a fund for that purpose.

SECTION IX.

Deaconesses.

147. 1. Each Annual Conference may, if deemed desirable, make provision for such a systematic organization of consecrated Christian women as will give them an official relation to the Church, similar to the order of Deaconesses in Primitive Christianity. Such women, being duly qualified, shall be employed as aids to the pastor. No vow of life-long service shall be exacted from them.

2. Deaconesses shall wear the distinctive dress registered by authority of the General Conference in the office of the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa.

3. Deaconesses' homes should be established where desirable and practicable, in the cities and large towns of our Conferences.

4. Certificates may be issued to duly qualified persons, authorizing them to perform the duty of Deaconesses in connection with the Church; provided that no person shall receive such certificate until she has served a continuous probation of two years, completed the prescribed course of study, and shall be over twenty-two years of age.