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making up all such allowances, the conference shall send such surplus forward to that conference they judge to be the most necessitous.

6. Every annual conference has full liberty to adopt and recommend such plans and rules, as to them may appear necessary, the more effectually to raise supplies for the respective allowances. Each annual conference is authorised to raise a fund, if they judge it proper, subject to its own controul, and under such regulations as their wisdom may direct, for the relief of the distressed, travelling, superannuated and supernumerary preachers, their wives, widows and children, as also for missionary pur poses.

7. If the respective allowances are not raised as provided for, the church shall not be accountable for the deficiency, as in a case of debt.

Quest. What advice or direction shall be given, concerning the building or renting of dwelling houses, for the use of the married travelling preachers?

Answ. It is recommended by the general conference, to the travelling preachers, to advise our friends in gene

ral, to purchase a lot of ground in each circuit, and to build a preacher's house thereon, and to furnish it with, at least, heavy furniture, and to settle the same on trustees, appointed by the quarterly meeting conference, according to the deed of settlement published in our form of discipline.

2. The general conference recom mend to all the circuits, in cases where they are not able to comply with the above request, to rent a house for the married preacher and his family (when such are stationed upon their circuits respectively) and that the annual conferences do assist to make up the rents of such houses as far as they can, when the circuit cannot do it.·

3. It shall be the duty of the presiding elders and preachers, to use their influence to carry the above rules, respecting building and renting houses, for the accommodation of preachers and their families into effect. In order to this, each quarterly meeting conference, shall appoint a committee (unless other measures have been adopted) who, with the advice and aid of the preachers and presiding elders shall devise such means as

may seem fit to raise monies for that purpose. And it is recommended to the annual conferences to make special inquiry of their members respecting this part of their duty.

4. Those preachers who refuse to Occupy the houses, which may be provided for them, on the stations and circuits, where they are from time to time appointed, shall be allowed nothing for house rent, nor receive any thing more than quarterage for themselves, their wives and children, and their travelling expenses. Nevertheless, this rule shall not apply to those preachers whose families are either established within the bounds of their circuits, or are so situated that in the judgment of the stewards, or the above mentioned committee, it is not necessary, for the benefit of the circuit, to remove them.

5. It shall be the duty of the said committee, or one appointed for that purpose, who shall be members of our Church, to make an estimate of the amount necessary to furnish fuel and ta ble expenses for the family or families of preachers stationed with them, and the stewards shall provide, by such

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aeans as they may devise, to meet such expenses, in money or otherwise : Provided the stewards shall not appropriate the monies collected for the regular quarterly allowance of the preachers, to the payment of family expenses.

fr. 6. There shall be a meeting in every district, of one steward from each station and circuit, to be selected from among the stewards by the quarterly meeting conference, whose duty it shall be, by and with the advice of the presiding elder, (who shall preside in such meeting) to take into consideration the general state of the district in regard to temporalities, and to furnish a house, fuel, and table expenses for the presiding elder.

SECTION VI.

Of the Chartered Fund.

Quest. What further provision shall be made for the distressed travelling preachers, for the families of travelling preachers, and for the superannuated and worn out preachers, and the widows and orphans of preachers?

Answ. There shall be a chartered fund, to be supported by the voluntary contributions of our friends; the principal

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stock of which shall be funded under te shall direction of trustees, chosen by the gen- st eral conference, and the interest applied under the direction of the general conference, according to the following regu- All lations, viz.

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2. The money shall, if possible, be conveyed by bills of exchange, or otherwise, through the means of the post, to the general book-steward, who shall pay t it to the trustees of the fund: otherwise it shall be brought to the ensuing annual conference.

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3. The interest shall be divided into twelve parts, and each of the annual conferences shall have authority to draw one twelfth part out of the fund; and if in one or more conferences, a part less than one twelfth be drawn out of the fund in any given year, then in such case or cases, the other annual conferences, held in the same year, shall have au1. thority, if they judge it necessary, to draw out of the fund, such surplus of the in interest, which has not been applied by the former conferences: and the bish

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