II.

The Book Stewards.

350. 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.

351. It shall be the duty of each Book Steward to purchase all materials and books required for the establishment 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 half-yearly 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.

352. 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 proportion of the profits as the respective Sections of the Book Committee shall determine.

III.

The Editors and their Duties.

353. 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 Sabbath-school periodicals, under the direction of the Western Section of the Book Committee; and an Editor who shall have the editorial management of the Wesleyan, under the direction of the Eastern Section of the Book Committee.

354. It shall be the duty of the Editors to make their respective periodicals soundly scriptural and instructive, and to put forth all reasonable efforts to render them the means of promoting right views on social, moral and religious questions, and of stimulating the zeal of our people in supporting all our connexional enterprises.

355. 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.

356. The Book Stewards and Editors elected by the General Conference shall hold office for four years from the time of their election, or from one General Conference to another, 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 Conferences to which they belong.

CHAPTER II.

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.

SECTION I.

THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

I. Name.

35%. This Society shall be known as Society of the Methodist Church.”

II. Object.

"The Missionary

358. 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 Conference of the Methodist Church.

III. Members.

359. 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 Report.

IV. Auxiliary and Branch Societies.

360. 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 Sabbath-schools shall be entitled "Juvenile Branches" of the Conference Auxiliary.

V. Treasurers.

361. Each Annual Conference may appoint a Treasurer, through whom all remittances from the General Treasurers may be sent. In case any Annual Conference does not make such an appointment, then all remittances to and from the Mission Rooms shall be made through the Chairmen of Districts of such Conference.

The Superintendent of a Circuit or Mission shall be Treasurer of the Branch Society of his Circuit or Mission.

VI. Remittances.

362. 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 Treasurer, through the Conference Treasurer, or directly, if there be no Conference Treasurer.

VII. Circuit Lists.

363. The Superintendent of each Circuit or Mission shall prepare annually, not later than the first day of the Annual District Meeting, a list of all subscribers of Two Dollars and upwards, also the aggregate of all collections and sums under Two Dollars; such lists to be sent without delay to the Conference Treasurer or the Chairman of the District, who shall forward them to the Mission Rooms, together with a statement of the gross receipts, local disbursements, and remittances.

VIII. General Board of Missions.

364. There shall be a General Missionary Board for the management of the Missionary Fund, which shall meet annually at such time and place as it may appoint. This Board shall be composed of the General Superintendents, the Officers of the Missionary Society, one minister, to be chosen annually by the ministers of each Annual Conference, one layman, to be chosen annually by the laymen of each Conference Missionary Committee, and eighteen other persons-one-half of whom shall be laymen--to be appointed by the General Conference, and to continue in office four years.

IX. Duties of the Board.

365. The duties of this Board shall be to review the Missionary work, and apportion the funds committed to it to the respective Conferences, according to the necessities of the various departments of the work; provided, however, that in the case of the Japan Conference the Board shall appropriate to the Missions therein direct; and provided further, that Domestic Missions receive forty-two and onehalf per cent. of the total amount which the General Board decides to appropriate in each year.

X. New Missions and Schools.

366. 1. No new Mission in the Indian, French, Chinese, or Foreign work shall be formed without the concurrence of the General Board having been first obtained; and in this matter the Board shall act only on the recommendation of the Annual Conference within whose bounds the proposed