Committee;-and to the London Book-Committee, for their judicious and faithful direction of the affairs of the Book-Room during the past year.

7. The REV. THOMAS JACKSON, having completed the second term of six years as our Editor, is unanimously re-appointed to that office; and the REV. GEORGE CUBITT is appointed Assistant Editor for the ensuing year, according to the plan and regulations recommended by the Book-Committee in their Minutes, now laid before the Conference, and entered in our Journal.

8. The Book-Committee are directed, with as little delay as possible, to publish a new monthly periodical work, at a price not exceeding two-pence for each number, adapted to the use especially of Tract Societies and Sunday-schools.

CHAPEL-FUND.

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

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 Chapel-Fund, for their services during the past year; and they are hereby reappointed to the same office during 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 Chairman and Secretary of the Chapel-Building Committee, the Rev. Messrs.

T. H. Walker, Calder, Bell, Burt, J. Dixon, Heaton, Lessey, and J. Sumner, sen. ;-with Messrs. Chappell, Henson, W. F. Johnson, John Lomas, Leadbeater, J. Marsden, Mayson, Potter, Read, W. Robinson, Robert Townend, and James Wood, of Manchester; John Burton, of Middleton; M. Ashton, T. Crook, Sands, and Sinclair, of Liverpool; and P. Rothwell, of Bolton.

6. The Committee of Distribution of the General ChapelFund, which will meet in Leeds 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, the Chairman and Secretary of the Chapel-Building Committee, and all the members of the Sub-Committee of the Loan-Fund; with the Rev. Messrs. Reece, G. Marsden, J. Taylor, J. Stanley, sen., R. Waddy, R. Treffry, sen., Grindrod, J. Davis, Hugh Hughes, T. Martin, Scott, France, Naylor, T. Rogers, and C. Cooke; with fifteen Trustees (not being Travelling Preachers), to be chosen by the June Quarterly Meetings, of the under-named Circuits, viz., two at Leeds East, two at Leeds West, and one from each of the following places,-York, Halifax, Bradford East, Bradford West, Huddersfield, Birstal, Wakefield, Stockton, Hull, Sunderland, and Newcastle East.

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.

9. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to Thomas Farmer, Esq., for his liberal donation of fifty pounds to the Chapel Loan-Fund.

10. The General Chapel-Fund Committee shall annually revise the Cases recorded in the Minute-Book of the Chapel-Building Committee, and call for proof of the fulfilment of the prescribed conditions.

CHAPEL-BUILDING COMMITTEE.

Q. XV. Who are the CHAPEL-BUILDING COMMITTEE, (without whose previous consent, obtained in writing, no chapel, whether large or small, is to be erected, purchased, or enlarged,) for the ensuing year?

A. 1. The Rev. Messrs. A. Bell, T. H. Walker, R. Wood, Crowther, and Calder, of Manchester; Slater of Macclesfield; Walsh, of Bury; F. A. West, of Stockport; and Dunn, of Oldham ;-with Messrs. J. Marsden, J. Wood, G. R. Chappell, John Fernley, W. Allen, and W. Robinson, of Manchester; Messrs. Crook and Ashton, of Liverpool; and James Heald, of Stockport.

2. This Committee, who have power to add to their number, if they deem it expedient, are requested to meet regularly on the first Monday in every month; and no permission to erect, purchase, or enlarge any chapel shall be granted, unless at least seven members of the Committee be present.

3. The Rev. Robert Wood is appointed the Chairman, and the Rev. F. A. West the Secretary, of this Committee. All letters on the subject of chapels should be addressed to the Rev. F. A. West, Methodist Chapel, Stockport. It is particularly requested that such letters may be post paid.

4. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the REV. G. MARSDEN, and to the REV. THOMAS STEAD, the late Chairman and Secretary, and to the other Members of the Committee, for their diligent attention to the business brought before them during the past year.

5. The Preachers, and others whom it may concern, are reminded, that, according to Rule, "no case shall be sanctioned by the Committee, unless it shall come before them as having received the previous approbation of the Quarterly Meeting of the Circuit, and shall be recommended either by the Financial District-Meeting in September, or by the Annual District-Meeting in May."

6. The Chapel-Building Committee are instructed, when their permission is given for the erection of any chapel, to accompany it with an earnest request that the Trustees will subscribe annually, according to their means, from their Trust-Funds, in aid of the Chapel-Fund.

7. A copy of the conditions on which the Chapel-Building Committee shall agree to sanction the erection, purchase, or enlargement of any chapel, shall be sent to the Trustees of the said chapel for insertion in their Trust-Book,—another to the Superintendent of the Circuit, to be entered in the Circuit-Book,—a third to the Chairman of the District, to be recorded in the Dis

trict Minute-Book,—and a fourth to the Treasurers of the ChapelFund.

8. The Conference commits the following recommendation of the Committee of the Chapel-Fund to the early and careful consideration of the Chapel-Building Committee, and to their immediate adoption, if they find it necessary or expedient; viz.,"That plans and estimates of all chapels proposed to be built, be laid before the Building Committee; and that they be directed to call in the aid of an architect, to assist them in the examination of such plans."

. Proper printed Forms of application to the Chapel-Building Committee, for permission to erect new chapels, &c., may be had from Mr. Mason, the Book-Steward.

CHILDREN'S FUND.

Q. XVI. What are the Resolutions of the Conference in reference to the CHILDREN'S FUND?

A. 1. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the District Treasurers of the Children's Fund throughout the kingdom, for their kind services during the year; and also to the REV. RICHARD WADDY, and W. G. SCARTH, ESQ., the General Treasurers, and to the REV. Wм. TOASE, the General Secretary, of this Fund.

2. The REV. RICHARD WADDY, and W. G. SCARTH, ESQ., are appointed the General Treasurers, and the REV. S. D. WADDY, the General Secretary, for the ensuing year.

3. All letters on business relating to this Fund should be addressed (post paid) to the REV. RICHARD WADDY, Methodist Chapel, Wednesbury.

4. From the reports of the District-Meetings, as to the probable number of Children's Allowances to be provided by this Fund in the ensuing year, it appears that the ratio of contribution, in proportion to numbers in Society, may for the present be as follows: One hundred and forty members are to provide the Allowance of one child, and so onwards in regular proportion. On this principle, and in conformity with the Regulations passed at the Conference in 1820, in reference to fractional numbers, the following statement has been drawn up. It determines the number of Children's Allowances for which each District is responsible in the year 1836-1837, and which must be divided by the September District-Meeting, according to rule, among the several Circuits included in it.

Q. XVII. What is the opinion of the Conference on the case of the Children of Worn-out or Deceased Preachers?

A. 1. It appears from documentary evidence, presented to the Conference, that in One Hundred and Fourteen Circuits an earnest wish has been formally expressed, that an allowance of Six Guineas per annum should be granted from the Children's Fund towards the maintenance of such children of Supernumerary and of Deceased Preachers as are "dependent on their parents for pecuniary support," on the same plan, and under the same regulations, as to the term of years, &c., as those by which that allowance is now regularly made from the Fund to the children of Preachers actually stationed in Circuits. From verbal testimony,