to four years, who shall form a Board, to meet at Cobourg, and examine the Students there attending, on all subjects prescribed by Conference.

The same Conferences shall appoint a similar Board for the Wesleyan Theological College at Montreal

The New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, the Nova Scotia and the Newfoundland Conferences shall appoint a similar Board of two from each Conference, to examine the students at the Mount Allison Wesleyan College.

209. II. The examinations prescribed under questions Second and Third, in Annual District Meetings, shall be conducted annually at each College by the examining board appointed for such College, and a report of the same forwarded to each District Meeting concerned, as far as relates to students belonging to such District. But the Probationers for the Ministry, at College, shall not be required to attend the meeting of their Districts, except, when they are to be recommended for ordination, in which case they shall attend.

210. III. Probationers for the Ministry appointed to attend College shall be responsible to the District Meeting from which they were recommended, and shall be recom mended by said District Meeting, from year to year, for continuance on trial, or for reception into full connexion and ordination.

211. IV. The District Meetings and Annual Conferences are recommended to send no preacher on trial to College for a term of less than two years, and whenever possible to extend the time to three years.

212. V. No preacher appointed to College shall be removed therefrom, except by authority of the President of his Conference, with the consent of the Chairman of his

District and the President of his College, or Dean of Theology.

213. VI. Graduates in Arts shall, when received on trial, be allowed one year on their probation, provided they complete the Course of Study for the first two years in the first year.

214. VII. Graduates in Arts shall pursue the course of study prescribed in Appendix No. II. Leg P

215. VIII. Graduates in Divinity shall be exempted from the regular course of study. In the case of candidates who, by permission of the Conferences to which they belong, are pursuing the B. D. course in any of our theological schools, the annual examination in such course of study shall be accepted instead of the annual examination in the regular course for any year. But, prior to being recom mended to be received into full connexion and ordained, both these classes of candidates shall be examined on Wesley's Sermons and Notes on the New Testament, Fletcher's Checks I.-V., Stevens' History of Methodism, and the Discipline of the Methodist Church of Canada. This examination shall also be required of all candidates, passing through our theological schools, who have not been examined on these subjects in their course of study.

216. IX. Probationers appointed to attend our Theological Schools shall pursue the course of study prescribed in Appendix No. III., except Undergraduates in Arts, who, in addition to their course in Arts, shall take such Theological studies as may be deemed advisable by the Faculty in Arts of the University to which they are appointed.

217. X. Candidates for our German Missionary work shall pursue the course of study prescribed in Appendix No. IV.

218. XI. Candidates for our French work shall pursue the course of study prescribed in Appendix V.

219. XII. When a student, by appointment of an Annual Conference, attends a University or Theological School for two or more years, one year shall be allowed on his probation; and if within the term of his probation he proceed to a degree, two years shall be so allowed.

220. XIII. No student of less than two years' standing at Victoria or Mount Allison College, or at the Montreal Theological College, shall be received as a Candidate for our ministry without the recommendation of the Quarterly Meeting of the Circuit upon which he has been resident before entering College, together with a certificate of good moral and religious standing from the President of the College, or the Dean of the Faculty of Theology, with which he has been connected.

221. XIV. After preliminary examination by the Examining Committee of the College, students recommended by a Quarterly Official Meeting, shall return to the District from which they are recommended, for their further examination and recommendation to the Annual Conference.

222. XV. Any minister who has received aid from the Educational Society, and who shall retire from our ministry within ten years after his reception on trial, shall refund such amount to the Society before receiving a certificate of his standing.

223. XVI. Young men attending College who may wish to become local preachers, may be received by the Quarterly Meetings of their Circuits as candidates, after due examination-provided they present certificates of moral and religious character from the Dean of the Faculty.

224. XVII. The February Quarterly Official Meeting, or in the case of those who are leaving home to attend

College, the August, or November Quarterly Official Meeting, may recommend such of its local preachers as it deems called to separate themselves entirely to the work of the ministry, and qualified therefor, to the next ensuing May District Meeting as candidates for the ministry. But no Quarterly Official Meeting shall recommend any candidate until he has served as a local preacher for at least six months.

CHAPTER III.

CIRCUIT OFFICIAL MEETINGS.

SECTION I.

The Quarterly Official Meeting.

225. The Quarterly Official Meetings shall consist of the Ministers and Probationers for the Ministry; the Local Preachers, the Exhorters, the Stewards of the Circuit, the Leaders of Classes, the Superintendents of Sabbath-schools, being members of the Church; one representative from each Board of Trustees, he being a member of the Church; and also of additional representatives who may have been appointed by the Societies of the Circuit;-the apportionment, scale, and mode of election shall be arranged by the fourth Quarterly Official Meeting;-but such additional representatives shall not exceed the number of the Stewards on each Circuit.

226. The Superintendent of the Circuit shall be the Chairman of the Quarterly Meeting, except when the Chairman of the District shall be present.

227. The regular business of the Quarterly Official Meeting shall be :