APPENDIX O. THE ASSESSMENT FOR THE DIOCESAN FUND FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1917. This schedule is published for information and not as any part of the proceedings of the Convention. Parishes expending from $2,000. to $2,500. Ra Bloomsburg, St. Paul's Church APPENDIX P. CONSTITUTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF HARRISBURG, TOGETHER WITH THE CANONS AND RULES OF ORDER OF SAID DIOCESE Article I. The Church in the Diocese of Harrisburg, being a constituent part of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, accedes to, recognizes, and adopts the Constitution and Canons of that Church, and acknowledges its authority accordingly. The Diocese of Harrisburg comprises the following named Coun ties in the State of Pennsylvania: Fulton, Bedford, Huntingdon, Blair, Mifflin, Juniata, Lycoming, Tioga, Potter, Northumber and, Montour, Columbia, Union, Snyder, Sullivan, Clinton, Centre, Lancaster, Dauphin, Cumberland, York, Adams, Franklin and Perry. Article II. There shall be a stated Convention of the Church in this Diocese every year, on the second Tuesday in May, at such place as the preceding Convention may have appointed, but if no such appointment shall have been made, then the Bishop and Standing Committee shall appoint the place. The Bishop and Standing Committee shall have power to change the time and place of the meeting of the Convention. Article III. The Bishop may call special Conventions when he shall judge it conducive to the good of the Church; and he shall do so when requested by a vote of three-fourths of the Standing Committee. If the Episcopate be vacant, the Standing Committee shall have power to call a special Convention; such call to be made by a circular letter to all the Clergy and Parishes, and issued not less than twenty days previous to the day appointed for the meeting of the Convention, stating the special business for which it is called. Article IV. Every Convention shall be opened with Prayers, as directed by the Bishop. On the first morning of the Convention there shall be. a Celebration of Holy Communion. in union with the Convention, with one addition for each one hundred Communicants in such Par Mission as reported to the Convention next pre parts of a hundred being disregarded, the Laity in Cergy, voting as individuals; but no Parish or C shall be entitled to representation in the Convent space of two years sha'l have failed to make a to the Bishop, or for the space of one calenda have employed a Clergyman as its Parish Minist the Bishop for the services of a Missionary; or sh pay the assessment laid upon it by the authoriti on or before the first day of the canlendar mor Annual Convention for the year shall be held. Bu shall again be entitled to representation if, on its accompanied by a report of its condition satisfact herein named, the Convention shall agree theret Article VI. The Bishop shall preside in Convention, but, in or vacancy in the Episcopate, the Convention sh dent from among the Clergy. Article VII. A Secretary shall be chosen upon the assembli Convention, who shall remain in office until his s elected. His duties shall be to take minutes of th preserve the "Journa's" and "Records" and the Se to attest the public acts of the Convention and into the hands of his successor the Seal and all relative to the concerns of the Convention whic possession. He shall cause one copy of every pri be certified under the Seal of the Diocese, which s as the officia' record of such Convention, and shal him as such. |