Fifth District-Central Ohio, 6; Cincinnati, 7; East Ohio, 8: Kentucky, 4; North Ohio, 6; North China, 2; Ohio, 7; South America, 2. Total, 42.

Sixth District-Alabama, 2: Atlanta, 2: Blue Ridge, 2; Central Tennessee, 2; East Tennessee, 2; Florida, 2; Georgia, 2; Holston, 4; North Carolina, 2; Savannah, 2; South Carolina, 5; St. John's River, 2; Virginia, 2. Total, 31.

Seventh District-Detroit, 9; Indiana, 9; Lexington, 4; Michigan, 9; Northwest Indiana, 5; North Indiana, 7. Total, 43.

Eighth District-Central Illinois, 7; Des Moines, 7; Iowa, 6; Northwest Iowa, 6; Rock River, 9; Upper Iowa, 7. Total, 42.

Ninth District-Bombay, 2; Central Swedish, 2; Minnesota, 5; Northern Minnesota, 5; North Dakota, 2; Norway, 2; Norwegian and Danish, 2; South Dakota, 4: Western Swedish, 2; West Wisconsin, 5; Wisconsin, 6. Total, 37.

Tenth District-Colorado, 4; Japan, 2; Liberia, 2: Nebraska, 5; North Nebraska, 4; Northwest India, 2; Sweden, 4; West Nebraska, 4; Northwest Nebraska, 2. Total, 29.

Eleventh District-Illinois, 9; Kansas, 5; Missouri, 5; Northwest Kansas, 4; Oklahoma, 2; Southern Illinois, 6; South Kansas, 5; Southwest Kansas, 5; St. Louis, 5. Total, 46.

Twelfth District-Arkansas, 2; Central Alabama, 2; Central Missouri, 4; Austin, 2; Little Rock, 2; Louisiana, 5; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 5; Tennessee, 2; Upper Mississippi, 4; West Texas, 4. Total, 36.

Thirteenth District-Central German, 5; Chicago German, 4; California German, 2; East German, 2; Northern German, 2; Northwest German, 2; St. Louis German, 5; Southern German, 2; North Germany, 2; South Germany, 2; Switzerland, 2; West German, 4. Total, 34.

Fourteenth District-California, 7; Columbia River, 4; Idaho, 2; Oregon, 4; Mexico, 2; Foo-Chow, 2; Bengal-Burmah, 2: Puget Sound, 4; Montana, 2; Southern California, 5; Western Norwegian-Danish, 2. Total, 36.

¶ 8. On Vacancies in General, Committees. When a Minister or Layman shall be elected a member of any General Committee, to wit: The Book Committee, the General Missionary Committee, the Church Extension Committee, or the Freedmen's Aid Committee, he shall reside within the General Conference District that he represents at the time of his appointment. And if, for any cause, he shall remove beyond the limits of such District, or shall cease

to be a Member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his office shall become vacant; and the Bishop having charge of the Conference in which the member may have resided shall appoint a successor from the same Conference to which the retiring member belonged, or within the bounds of which he resided.-Journal, 1876, p. 261.

Local Committee at New York: E. B. Tuttle, J. E. Andrus,

T. J. Preston.

Local Committee at Cincinnati: Richard Dymond, J. N. Gamble, R. T. Miller.

¶ 10. Members of General Committees on Missions, Church Extension, and Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education.

T 11. Missionary Society.

OFFICE: 150 Fifth Avenue, New York.

Corresponding Secretaries, ABRAHAM J. PALMER,

Recording Secretary, STEPHEN L. BALDWIN.

Treasurer, HOMER EATON.

Assistant Treasurer, LEWIS Curts.

¶ 12. Board of Church Extension.

OFFICE: 1026 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ALPHA J. KYNETT, Corresponding Secretaries, WILLIAM A. SPENCER.

Assistant Corresponding Secretary, MANLEY S. HARD.
Recording Secretary, J. S. J. MCCONNELL.
Treasurer, JAMES LONG.

James Long,

W. G. Spencer,

Joseph Thompson,

L. C. Simon,

D. W. Bartine,

John Gillespie,
J. E. James,
J. W. Boughton,
Thomas Bradley,
T. L. De Bow,
R. S. McCombs,
M. S. McCullough,
Francis Magee,
M. A. Rettew,
George Kessler,
J. B. Brenniser,

MINISTERS.

LAYMEN.

Merritt Hulburd,
William Downey,
S. W. Gehrett,
S. A. Heilner,
Edmund Hewitt,
R. W. Humphriss,
S. M. Vernon,
J. W. Sayers,
W. A. Spencer,
H. A. Monroe,
J. A. Lippincott.
F. B. Lynch,
J. S. Hughes,
J. R. T. Gray,
C. M. Boswell,
L. E. Barrett.

S. K. Felton,

J. F. Fox,

C. W. Higgins,
T. A. Redding,

J. R. Senior,
W. H. Senderling,
R. E. Pattison,
A. Wakelin,
William King,
S. T. Fox, Jr.,
Jefferson Justice,
J. A. Hudson,
F. G. Elliott,
John Gribbel,
I. L. Conkling,
R. L. Shetter.

13. Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education

Society.

OFFICE: 220 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. (JOHN W. HAMILTON, Corresponding Secretaries, MADISON C. B. MASON.

Recording Secretary, WILLIAM H. W. REES.

Treasurer, LEWIS CURTS.

Assistant Treasurer, HOMER Eaton.

¶ 14. Epworth League.

OFFICE 57 Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois.
General Secretary, EDWIN A. SCHELL.