dation 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 Supernumerary Preachers shall, when the claim has been sanctioned by the District-Committee, be received from the Treasurers of the Auxiliary Fund; but the charge for educating those sons of Deceased or Supernumerary Preachers, who are placed at either of our Schools, shall be borne entirely by the School-Fund.

6. The names of the boys and girls to whom the Education Allowance is granted shall no longer be printed in the Annual Report; but the General Treasurers and Secretary shall furnish every Superintendent with an accurate List of them.

7. 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, Birmingham.

8. 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 everything which relates to the School-Fund. This communication shall be made not later than the 31st of May.

9. At every District-Meeting, on the day on which the CircuitStewards 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.

10. 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. WILLIAM P. BURGESS, the General Secretary, for their efficient discharge of the duties of their offices in the past year.

11. 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 kind and diligent attention to everything affecting the comfort and welfare of the children placed under their care; and to the Examiners, for their very efficient discharge of the duties which they kindly consented to undertake.

12. A regular quarterly correspondence shall take place between the Secretaries of the two Schools relative to all matters connected with the appointment and the salaries of the Teachers, and the general management and state of the Schools.

13. 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 the BOOK-ROOM?

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

2. The REV. JOHN BROWN, SEN., of Bath, is re-appointed the Editor of the Child's Magazine. Communications intended for this department should be addressed to him, at No. 14, City-Road, 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 Friday 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., Alexander Bell, W. Clegg, sen., J. Cusworth, James Dixon, S. Dunn, J. Entwisle, sen., T. Eastwood, W. France, J. Fowler, H. Hughes, W. Jackson, W. Leach, W. Lord, G. Marsden, G. Morley, R. Reece, John Rigg, sen., B. Slater, R. Smith, Jos. Taylor, P. C. Turner, W. Vevers, R. Waddy, F. A. West, M. Wilson, R. Wood, D. Walton, and the Representatives of the Irish Conference.

5. The Ex-President, the REV. THOMAS JACKSON, having been requested last year to publish, as early as possible, a brief, but comprehensive, work on the subject of the Centenary, including, with succinct notices of the origin, progress, and present state of Wesleyan Methodism, and of the leading facts in the life and history of the revered Founder of our Societies, such remarks as may assist our friends in the devout improvement of the occasion, the very cordial and unanimous thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to him, for the prompt, able, and highly satisfactory manner in which he has fulfilled the wishes of his brethren, by the preparation of the Centenary volume.

6. The thanks of the Conference are presented to the REV. GEORGE CUBITT, for the very satisfactory manner in which he has discharged the laborious duties of 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 valuable services as Editor of the Child's Magazine ;-to the REV. JOHN FARRAR, for his services as Secretary of the London Book-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 thanks of the Conference are presented to the REV.

JOHN FARRAR, for the valuable assistance he has rendered the Editor during the past year.

9. The thanks of the Conference are presented to the REV. RICHARD TREFFRY, the Chairman of the Methodist TractCommittee; to the REV. ROBERT NEWSTEAD, the Secretary; to those Preachers who have supplied new Tracts; and to the Committee, for the vigour and efficiency with which they have discharged their duties during the year.

10. The London Book-Committee having recommended that an edition of the First Catechism should be published, in which the answers to each question should be put in the form of a complete proposition, embodying the entire sense of the question and answer, without any alteration in the words; and also that a Key should be published, adapted to this particular edition; the Conference adopts the recommendation of the Committee, and directs that such an edition of the Catechism and Key be published. Mr. Wesley's "Abridgment of the Order for the Administration of Baptism and the Lord's Supper" shall be published, in one convenient volume, distinct from the other parts of the Liturgy.

CHAPEL AFFAIRS.

Q. XIV. What are the Resolutions of the Conference with regard to the GENERAL CHAPEL-FUND, the CHAPEL-LOAN-FUND, and the CENTENARY CHAPEL-RELIEF-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.

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 Southport, for their kind and efficient services during the past year.

4. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the REV. ROBERT WOOD, and the REV. FRANCIS A. WEST, the Secretaries of the General Chapel-Fund, for their services during the past year.

5. The Committee of Distribution of the General ChapelFund, which will meet in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 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 Treasurer and Secretaries of the Chapel-LoanFund, and the Treasurer and Secretaries of the Centenary ChapelRelief-Fund; the Rev. Messrs. Atherton, John Anderson, sen., Dr. Bunting, J. Davis, J. Dixon, J. Fowler, T. Harris, W. Lord, G. Marsden, W. Naylor, R. Reece, J. Scott, R. Treffry, W. Vevers, and R. Waddy; with fifteen Trustees, (not being Travelling Preachers,) to be chosen by the June Quarterly Meetings, of the undernamed Circuits, viz., two at Newcastle (West), two at Sunderland, and one from each of the following places, Newcastle (East), Gateshead, North-Shields, SouthShields, Liverpool (North), Manchester (3d), Leeds (East), York, Stockton, Darlington, and Whitby.

6. The Conference unanimously adopt the following Resolutions of the Chapel-Loan-Fund Sub-Committee, as presented in the Report of the General Chapel-Fund Committee:

"The Loan-Fund Sub-Committee, on finding that the remaining applications for Final Grants are exceedingly numerous, and require a very large amount of Funds for their relief, are of opinion that they would not be justified in making any additional Grants, as they have already gone beyond the means placed at the disposal of the Committee, by the Conference of 1832. Under these circumstances, they unanimously adopt the following Resolutions:

"I. That this Committee-devoutly thankful for the success which has crowned the operations of the present Loan system, by means of which, in conjunction with the efforts of Trustees, and other friends, Chapel Debts to the amount of upwards of £100,000 have been extinguished; feeling, as they do, the liveliest interest in the prosperity of the system for the relief of Distressed Chapels; and rejoicing in the hope that the day is not far distant when the present distressing embarrassments of Chapel-Trusts in our Connexion will be effectually relieved―are of opinion that it will tend to the furtherance of that important object, and they therefore recommend to the Conference, to appoint a new and distinct Committee for the distribution of the Grant from the Centenary Fund. They also deem it advisable, that in the constitution of that Committee, the Conference should take advantage of the large amount of experience which many members of the present Committee have acquired in working the Loan system.

"II. That, in order to the completion of the present Loan system, the Committee request that a small Committee may be appointed from year to year. They beg at the same time strongly to urge the claims of the Loan-Fund, and the paramount importance of keeping up the present amount of the General Chapel