CHAPTER I. SUPPORT OF MINISTERS. SECTION I. Ministers and Probationers for the Ministry. 384. I. It shall be the duty of the Stewards to estimate the amount necessary to meet the salary, and other expenses of the Minister, or Probationer, stationed on any Circuit or Mission; subject, however, to the approval of the first Quarterly Official Meeting, according to the following rule: 385. 11. The salary of a married Minister shall be $300 per annum, exclusive of the necessary expense of board, fuel, rent, horse-keep, and incidental expenses. 386. III. The salary of an ordained single Minister shall be $250 per annum, exclusive of the necessary expense of board, horse-keep, and incidental expenses. 387. IV. The salary of a Probationer for the Ministry shall be $200 per annum, exclusive of the necessary expense of board, horse-keep, and incidental expenses. 388. V. Every child of a Minister born after the father was received into full connexion with the Conference, and ordained, shall receive thirty dollars per annum until eighteen years of age. SECTION II. Stewards and their Duties. 389. I. Let the Stewards be men of solid piety, who both know and love the Methodist doctrines and discipline, and of good natural and acquired abilities to transact the temporal business. 390. II. On each Circuit and Mission there shall not be less than three, nor more than seven Stewards, who shall be nominated by the Superintendent and appointed by the second Quarterly Official Meeting, one of whom shall be the Recording Steward. 391. III. The duties of Stewards are,-1. To take an exact account of whatever has been collected for the support of the Ministers and Probationers for the Ministry on the Circuit or Mission. 2. To make an accurate return of every expenditure of money, whether to the Minister and Probationers, the sick or the poor. 3. To seek the needy and distressed, in order to relieve and comfort them. 4. To inform the Minister of any sick or disabled persons. 5. To attend the Quarterly Official Meetings of their Circuits. 6. To give advice, if asked, in planning the Circuit. 7. To provide the elements for the Lord's Supper. 8. To write circular letters to the Societies in the Circuit to be more liberal if need be, and to let them know, when occasion requires, the state of the temporal concerns at the last Quarterly Official Meeting. 9. To fill up the Circuit schedule correctly; and to be subject to the President, the Chairman of the District, and the Ministers on their Circuit, 392. IV. The Stewards shall be accountable for the |