the two chosen fail to agree upon a third, within one year after such division, it shall be the duty of the Chairman of the District to appoint one. The decision of the arbitrators

shall be in all cases final.

SECTION II.

Churches and Church Property.

245. Let all our churches be built plain and decent, and not more expensive than is absolutely necessary.

246. In order more effectively to prevent our people from contracting debts which they are not able to discharge, the erection of no new church on a Circuit shall be proceeded with without the approval of the Quarterly Official Board of the Circuit in which such building is to be erected.

247. It shall be the duty of the Quarterly Official Board of every Circuit, where it is contemplated to build a church. or churches, to secure the ground or lot on which such church or churches are to be built, according to our deed of settlement, which deed must be legally executed; and also, said Quarterly Official Board shall appoint a judicious committee of at least three members of our Church, who shall form an estimate of the amount necessary to build; and three-fourths of the money, according to such estimate, shall be secured or subscribed before any such building shall be commenced.

248. All Church property must be legally secured, and the deed registered within one year after its execution.

249. In future, we will admit no charter, deed, or conveyance, for any church to be used by us, unless it be provided in such charter, deed, or conveyance, that the trustees of the said church shall, at all times, permit such ministers and preachers belonging to the Methodist Church, as shall from time to time be duly authorized by the Conference or by the ministers of our Church, to preach and expound God's Holy Word, and to execute the discipline of the Church, and to administer the sacraments therein, according to the true meaning and purport of our "Book of Discipline," and Model Deed.

250. When it is proposed to erect a new church within the bounds of any Circuit or Mission, the Superintendent of such Circuit or Mission shall notify the Chairman of the District, indicating the proposed site; and the Chairman shall notify the Superintendent of any Circuit or Mission affected thereby; and if objection be made, and the parties cannot agree, then the difficulty shall be settled by arbi

tration.

SECTION III.

Record of Church Property.

251. In order to prevent forgetfulness and loss of Church property, a correct inventory of all our property, whether lands, churches, parsonages, or furniture, shall be kept.

252. The Book Steward, for the time being, shall be the Registrar, and shall provide and keep a proper book for the purpose, which book shall be laid before the General Conference for the inspection of its members.

253. Each Superintendent shall return a list and description of all Church property within his Circuit, Station, or Mission, to the Annual District Meeting next preceding the meeting of the General Conference, according to the General Conference Schedule; also, the exact locality and other information needful, and whether, and where, the deeds are registered.

SECTION IV.

Of Trustees.

254. When a new Board of Trustees is to be created, it shall be done by the appointment of the Quarterly Official Board, upon the nomination of the Superintendent of the Circuit, and shall consist of not less than five, nor more than twenty-one.

255. No person shall be eligible as a trustee to any of our churches, parsonages, school-houses, burial-grounds, or other property, who is not a member of our Church.

256. No person who is a trustee shall be ejected while he is in joint security for money, unless such relief be given him as is demanded, or as the creditor will accept.

25%. When and so often as one or more of the said trustees, or of their successors in the said trust, shall die, resign his office as trustee, withdraw, or cease to be a member or members of the Methodist Church, according to the Rules and Discipline of the said Church, the vacant place of the trustee or trustees so dying, withdrawing, or ceasing to be a member or members of the said Church, shall be filled with a successor or successors, being a member or members of the said Church, of the full age of twenty

one years, to be nominated and appointed as follows: that is to say,-to be nominated by the minister having charge for the time being of the Circuit in which the said premises shall be situate, and thereupon appointed by the surviving or remaining trustee or trustees of the said trust, or a majority of them, if he or they shall think proper to appoint the person or persons so nominated, and, in case of an equal division of the votes of the trustees present, at any meeting of the trustees held for the purpose of such appointment, the minister in charge of the said Circuit shall have a casting vote in such appointment; and if it shall happen at any time that there shall be no surviving trustee of the said trust, in every such case it shall and may be lawful for the minister aforesaid to nominate, and the Quarterly Official Board of the Circuit, if they approve of the persons so nominated, to appoint the requisite number of trustees of the said trust by a vote of the majority of the members of the said meeting then present; and, in case of an equal division of their votes, the chairman of the said meeting shall have the casting vote in such appointment, and the person or persons so nominated and appointed trustee or trustees in either of the said modes of nomination and appointment, shall be the legal successor or successors of the said above-named trustees, and shall have in perpetual succession the same capacities, powers, rights and duties, as belonged to and were exercised by the original trustees.

SECTION V.

Of Keeping Trustees' Records.

258. It shall be the duty of the trustees, for the time heing, to keep a book of record in which the names of the

trustees shall be entered, together with the names of their respective successors, giving in each case the date when each became a trustee, and the date when each ceased to be a trustee, and the cause of his ceasing to hold the office.

CHAPTER III.

OF BOUNDARIES.

SECTION I.

Of Annual Conferences.

259. The boundaries of the Annual Conferences shall be determined by the General Conference.

There shall be eleven Annual Conferences in our work, viz. Toronto, London, Niagara, Guelph, Bay of Quinte, Montreal, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Manitoba and North-West, and British Columbia, and one Mission Conference, Japan.

260. In case of a dispute between two adjoining Circuits of different Annual Conferences, or between two Conferences, as to boundaries, invasion, or the like, the General Superintendent shall endeavor to adjust the difficulty, and if he cannot do so, he shall select a committee of five minis ters or official members, who shall hear and determine the matter as nearly as may be in the manner provided for trial. Either party may appeal from the decision of the Committee to the Court of Appeal, whose decision shall be final and binding upon all parties.