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shall apply all profits, not required in the business, exclusively for the benefit of the Supernumerary Ministers and Ministers' Widows' Fund.

473. 12. Each Section of the Book Committee shall also at its first meeting, and at each subsequent annual meeting, appoint an Executive Committee, which shall meet quarterly and review the business of the preceding quarter; and shall advise and decide in all matters submitted for their consideration.

474. 13. The Executive Committee of the Western Section shall consist of nine members,-five to constitute a quorum,-four of whom shall be selected from the Toronto Conference, three from the London Conference, and two from the Montreal Conference.

475. 14. The Executive Committee of the Eastern Section shall consist of five members,-three of whom shall constitute a quorum,-who shall be selected from those members of the Eastern Section residing in the vicinity of the Book Room, in Halifax.

476. 15. Each Executive Committee shall appoint its own Chairman and Secretary, and keep a correct record of the business transacted at its meetings; which shall be submitted to the respective Sections of the Book Committee at their annual meeting.

477. 16. All books which may be published by order of the General Conference, under the direction of any one of the existing Book Establishments, shall be furnished to the other Establishment at cost.

478. 17. The Eastern and Western Sections shall each, at the close of the quadrennial period, carefully review the Book and Publishing Business, within its jurisdiction, of the preceding four years, and prepare a full report of the same;

and those members of the Book Committee who shall be

elected delegates to the next General Conference shall meet at the time and place when and where the said Conference shall be held, and prepare a united Report, to be presented to the Conference.

II. THE BOOK STEWARDS.

479. 1. The General Conference shall elect by ballot a Book Steward, who shall have charge of the Book and Printing Establishment in Toronto, under the direction of the Western Section of the Book Committee; and also a Book Steward, who shall have charge of the Book and Printing Establishment in Halifax, under the direction of the Eastern Section of the Book Committee.

480. 2. It shall be the duty of each Book Steward to purchase all materials and books required for the establish. ment under his charge, keeping in view the mental wants of the Church and the religious instruction of the people generally. Nevertheless, before purchasing plant or materials for improvement, involving unusual expenditure, he shall obtain the consent of the Executive Committee. He shall give the Committee such information as they may require concerning the state of the business, and present a quarterly statement of the affairs of the establishment to the Executive Committee. He shall also present annually, to the meeting of his section of the Book Committee, a balance sheet, exhibiting the financial state of the Book Room and periodicals, together with a cash account, showing the sources whence the money has been received, and the purposes for which it has been paid.

481. 3. Each Book Steward shall conduct the business of his department in the most efficient and economical manner, and pay over to the Treasurer of the Superannuation or

Supernumerary Fund such proportions of the profits as the respective Sections of the Book Committee shall determine.

III. THE EDITORS AND THEIR DUTIES.

482. 1. The General Conference shall elect, by ballot, an Editor, who shall have the editorial management of the Christian Guardian; and an Editor of the Canadian Methodist Magazine and the Sabbath-school publications; and also, an Editor who shall have the editorial management of the Halifax Wesleyan.

483. 2. It shall be the duty of the Editors to make their respective periodicals not only soundly Scriptural and instructive, but also to put forth all reasonable effort to render our Sunday-school papers highly attractive and interesting to the young. They shall likewise carefully supervise the printing of all books and periodicals published at the respective Book Rooms; and it is required, that, in all matters respecting the publication of the periodicals, the Book Stewards and Editors shall act in harmony.

484. 3. The Book Stewards and Editors elected by the General Conference, shall hold office for four years from the time of their election, and shall be eligible for re-election; but they shall continue in office, after the appointment of their successors, till the meeting of the Annual Conference to which they belong.

CHAPTER II.

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.

SECTION I.

Constitution of the Missionary Society.

I.-NAME.

485. This Society shall be known as The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of Canada.

II. , -ОВЈЕСТ.

486. The object of the Society is the support and enlargement of the Indian, French, Domestic, Foreign, and other Missions, which are carried on under the direction of the Conferences of the Methodist Church of Canada.

III.-MEMBERS.

487. Every person paying annually the sum of four dollars and upwards, and every person collecting annually ten dollars and upwards, for this Society, shall be deemed a member, and entitled to a copy of the Annual Conference Report. And every person paying annually twenty-five dollars, or collecting for the Society thirty dollars or upwards, shall also be entitled to a copy of the General Report.

IV.—AUXILIARY AND BRANCH SOCIETIES.

488. The Methodist Missionary Societies within the bounds of any Annual Conference shall collectively be entitled "The Auxiliary Missionary Society" for that Conference; and severally shall be entitled "Branch Societies " of such Auxiliary. Missionary Societies formed in our Sunday-schools shall be entitled "Juvenile Branches" of the Conference Auxiliary.

V.-TREASURERS.

489. 1. Each Annual Conference may appoint a Treasurer, through whom all remittances to or from the head office shall be sent. In case any Annual Conference does not make such an appointment, then all remittances to and from the head office shall be made through the Chairmen of Districts in such Conference.

490. 2. The Superintendent of a Circuit or Mission shall be Treasurer of the Branch Societies on his Circuit or Mission.

VI. REMITTANCES.

491. The money raised on any Circuit or Mission shall be transmitted as soon as collected to the Chairman of the District, deducting only what has been disbursed for incidental and local expenses; and the Chairman shall in turn remit promptly to the General Treasurers, through the Conference Treasurer (or directly if there be no Conference Treasurer), all moneys received, deducting only necessary incidental expenses. All moneys from the General Treasurer to a District shall also pass through the Chairman's hands.

VII. CIRCUIT LISTS.

492. The Superintendent of each Circuit or Mission shall prepare annually, not later than the first day of the Annual

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