William L. Thornton, Secretary; Rev. Messrs. Vevers, William Smith, Anderson, Galland, Kirk, Sedgwick, C. Radcliffe, Garrett, Leach, Hamer, Walton, Hinson, Prescott, Murray, and J. Walker;-with Messrs. Calvert, Beaumont, Cheeseborough, and Walker, of Bradford; Messrs. Scarth, John Burton, Joshua Burton, Marris, James Hargraves, C. Dove, B. Beverley, Musgrave, and Howard, of Leeds; Messrs. Swale and Suter, of Halifax; Mr. Stocks, of Wakefield; Mr. Shaw, of Huddersfield; and Mr. Sutcliffe, of Willow-Hall.

4. The Private Subscriptions and Public Collections for the School-Fund are to be made in every Circuit in the month of October; and the Conference repeats and urges its recommendation to our Lay-Friends to render assistance to the Preachers in procuring the private Subscriptions. The sums allowed to Preachers, stationed in Circuits, for the education of their daughters, and of such of their sons as cannot obtain admission into the Schools, may be paid out of the amount raised in the Circuits where they are stationed, if sufficient for that purpose. In other cases, we repeat our Minute made in 1820: "The allowances for education do not become due until the next Conference, and are not to be paid in advance, except so far as the Collections and Subscriptions to the Fund in any Circuit will meet the claims of that Circuit. But when the Governors of the Schools have been fully enabled to provide for their current expenditure, if a surplus remain in the hands of the Treasurers, they may make such remittances in advance to Circuits in which the claims are large, and the contributions very small, as may suit their convenience."

5. The usual allowance for the education of the children of Deceased and of Supernumerary Preachers, instead of being claimed by the Treasurers of the School Fund, and received by them in a gross amount from the Treasurer of the Auxiliary Fund, shall, when the claim has been sanctioned by the DistrictMeeting, be received directly from the Auxiliary Fund; the Treasurers of the School-Fund, however, being allowed to claim such a sum for each boy educated and supported at either of the Schools as he actually costs the institution.

6. The vacation at both the Schools shall commence in the last week of May, or the first week of June.

7. The Conference determines, that if any boy, having left either of our Schools at the time of the annual vacation, be detained more than a week after the vacation ends, unless a satisfactory reason be sent to the Governor, such boy's place shall be immediately filled up by the Governor from the list of boys who are waiting for admission.

8. Every Superintendent is required to send to the General Treasurers a particular account of the sums contributed in his

Circuit to the Fund, and of the claims made upon it; stating distinctly the names of the children for whose education the usual allowance has been paid, and the exact number of years during which the allowance has been received; and it is further expressly required, that such accounts, with any balance then in hand due to the Fund, shall be sent not later than the 15th of November. All communications are to be addressed to the REV. PHILIP C. TURNER, Methodist Chapel, Devonport.

9. The Accounts for the year shall be closed on the 24th of June, and audited before they are presented to the General Committee at the next Conference; and, in order to this, every Superintendent is required, at the May District-Meeting, finally to correct his List of Contributions sent in November, and to pay at the same time all additional Subscriptions or Collections; and the Financial Secretary shall send to the Treasurers such corrections, with an extract from his District-Minutes of every thing which relates to the School-Fund. This communication shall be

made not later than the 31st of May.

10. At every District-Meeting, on the day on which the Circuit Stewards are in attendance during the transaction of the financial business of the District, the Chairman is directed to inquire particularly into the amount of the Subscriptions and Collections raised for the School-Fund in each Circuit, and to compare them with the lists of the preceding year. Where any material deficiency, or want of due exertion, shall appear, the case shall be specially reported in the District-Minutes, and be brought by the Chairman before the ensuing Conference.

11. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to JOHN IRVING, Esq., and the REV. PHILIP C. TURNER, the late General Treasurers, and to the REV. GEORGE OSBORN, the late General Secretary, for their efficient discharge of the duties of their offices in the past year.

12. The thanks of the Conference are presented to the late Local Committees and Secretaries of the Schools, for their faithful and able attention to the affairs of the Schools during the year; to the Governors and Governesses of the Schools, for their affectionate attention to the children committed to their care, and for their able management of the concerns of the Schools; and to the Examiners, for their very efficient discharge of the duties which they kindly consented to undertake.

13. The Conference re-appoints the Governors to their offices, in accordance with the recommendation of the Local Committees, for the term of years specified in the last year's Minutes. (See Min. of 1836, Q. xxII., p. 84.)

14. The thanks of the Conference are presented to the Rev. Joshua Wood, A.M., Head Master of the Woodhouse-Grove

School, for the able and satisfactory manner in which he has discharged the duties of his office; and the Conference also records the high gratification which it has received from Mr. Wood's visit, during its sittings, in company with the Governor, Governess, and boys, and from the communications which he has made. 15. The cordial thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the following contributors of five pounds and upwards, for their liberal aid to the Fund ::

Q. XIII. What are the Resolutions of the Conference in reference to the AFFAIRS OF OUR BOOK-ROOM?

A. 1. The REV. JOHN FARRAR, JUN., is re-appointed the Secretary to the London Book-Committee for the year ensuing.

2. The REV. JOHN BROWN, SEN., of Maidstone, is re-appointed the Editor of the Child's Magazine. Communications intended for this department should be addressed to him at No. 14, CityRoad, London.

3. The REV. ROBERT NEWSTEAD is appointed the Secretary to the Methodist Tract-Committee. Communications intended for this department should be addressed to him at No. 14, CityRoad, London.

4. The General Book-Committee, which is appointed to meet on the Thursday evening previous to the next Conference, shall consist of our President and Secretary, and all the members of the London Book-Committee who shall be duly authorized to attend the Conference; with the Rev. Messrs. John Anderson, sen., Leach, France, R. Wood, Waddy, P. Garrett, J. Fowler, G. Marsden, Dixon, Lessey, B. Slater, Galland, Morley, H. Hughes, D. Walton, Pilter, Rigg, F. A. West, R. Smith, C. Cooke, W. Smith, A. Bell, W. P. Burgess, I. Keeling, D. Evans, W. Naylor, J. Taylor, James Gill, Martin, Lord, Hobson, Haswell, W. Fowler, Cusworth, J. S. Stamp, W. W. Stamp, Eastwood, S. D. Waddy, Clegg, Lawry, Blackett, W. Vevers, Dr. Andrews, and the Representatives of the Irish Conference.

5. The thanks of the Conference are hereby unanimously presented to the REV. THOMAS JACKSON, for the very judicious and satisfactory manner in which he has discharged the laborious duties of his office as our Editor during the past year.

6. The thanks of the Conference are presented to the REV. GEORGE CUBITT, for the very efficient assistance which he has rendered to the Editor during the past year.

7. The thanks of the Conference are tendered to the REV. JOHN MASON, Our Book-Steward, for his vigilant and successful management of the business of his office during the past year ;to the REV. JOHN BROWN, SEN., for his acceptable and valuable services as Editor of the Child's Magazine;-to the REV. JOHN FARRAR, JUN., for his services as Secretary to the London BookCommittee;-to the REV. WILLIAM L. THORNTON, for his services as Secretary to the Methodist Tract-Committee;-and to the London Book-Committee, for their judicious and faithful direction of the affairs of the Book-Room during the past year.

8. The REV. GEORGE CUBITT is appointed Assistant-Editor, according to the Regulations of 1836 concerning Appointments. (See Min. 1836, Q. xxII., p. 84.)

9. The Book-Committee are directed to publish an additional octavo volume of the Minutes; and a new edition, consolidated and improved, of Hill's "Alphabetical Arrangement.

10. The Book-Committee are also directed to publish the late Rev. Daniel Isaac's Sermon on Church Communion, in a separate form.

CHAPEL-FUND.

Q. XIV. What are the Resolutions of the Conference, in regard to the GENERAL CHAPEL-FUND, and the CHAPEL LOAN-FUND?

A. 1. The cordial thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to THOMAS MARRIOTT, ESQ., and the REV. SAMUEL JACKSON, the Treasurers of the General Chapel-Fund, for their diligent and faithful services during the past year; and they are hereby appointed to that office during the next year.

2. The cordial thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to JAMES HEALD, ESQ., and JOHN FERNLEY, Esq., the Treasurers of the Loan-Fund, for their important and valuable services during the past year; and they are respectfully requested to continue those services during the ensuing year.

3. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the Lay-Gentlemen of the Chapel Loan-Fund Sub-Committee, and especially to MR. THOMAS CROOK, of Liverpool, and MR. W. ROBINSON, of Manchester, for their kind and efficient services during the past year.

4. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the REV. ROBERT WOOD, the REV. JONATHAN CROWTHER, and the REV. FRANCIS A. WEST, the Secretaries of the General ChapelFund, for their services during the past year; and the REV. ROBERT WOOD, the REV. FRANCIS A. WEST, and the REV. EDWARD WALKER, are appointed to that office for the next year. 5. The Sub-Committee of the Loan-Fund, who shall meet in Manchester on the second Wednesday in October, and the last Wednesday in May next, or oftener if necessary, shall_be_composed of the following persons; viz., the Treasurers of the LoanFund, the Secretaries of the Chapel-Fund, the Rev. Messrs. Bell, Calder, Horton, Heaton, Lessey, Squance, Slater, and Stead;with Messrs. Chappell, Henson, John Lomas, J. Marsden, W. Robinson, James Wood, and T. P. Bunting, of Manchester; John Burton, of Middleton; and M. Ashton and T. Crook, of Liverpool.

6. The Committee of Distribution of the General Chapel-Fund, which will meet in Bristol on the Monday previous to the next Conference, shall consist of our President and Secretary, the Treasurers and Secretaries of the General Chapel-Fund, the Treasurers of the Chapel Loan-Fund, and the Chairman and Secretary of the Sub-Committee of the Loan-Fund; with the Rev. Dr. Bunting, Messrs. Reece, G. Marsden, J. Stanley, sen., R. Waddy, R. Treffry, sen., Bowers, Davis, Hugh Hughes, T. Martin, Waterhouse, Lord, Burt, Vevers, and J. Fowler ;-with fifteen Trustees, (not being Travelling Preachers,) to be chosen by the June Quarterly Meetings, of the under-named Circuits, viz., two at Bristol North, two at Bristol South, two at Bath, and one from each of the following places,-Cheltenham, MidsummerNorton, Exeter, Penzance, Devonport, Salisbury, Kingswood, Truro, and Frome.

7. To ensure greater punctuality in the transmission of the Collections and Subscriptions to the General Chapel-Fund, the Chairmen of Districts are hereby directed to make inquiry, in their respective District-Meetings, whether the Rule requiring such Collections and Subscriptions to be transmitted to the Treasurers before the end of March has been observed, and to insert an answer to that inquiry in the District-Minutes.

8. The Conference directs that every application to the General Chapel-Fund Committee shall be accompanied by a regular ChapelSchedule, duly filled up, and signed by the Chairman of the District, in the District-Meeting; and it further directs that the said Schedules shall be forwarded to the General Treasurers of the Chapel-Fund, before July 1st; and that all Cases in which this latter direction shall not have been complied with shall be postponed for one year.