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2. The Chairman of the District, appointed by the Annual Conference, shall be, ex officio, Chairman of the Mission Council. His duties shall be as follows:

a. To preside at all meetings of the Council, to conduct official correspondence with the General Board, and be the executive of the wishes of the General Board, and of the decisions of the Mission Council.

b. To visit all Mission stations within the bounds of our work as often as practicable; to assist pastors and evange lists by advice and by public services; to recommend the opening of new fields and plans for the prosecution of work therein; and to do all in his power to develop an evangelistic and revival type of Methodism.

c. To be Treasurer of all funds furnished by the Society; to keep the books, and make all reports connected therewith; and to devise meaus whereby the liberality of the native churches shall speedily be developed into complete selfsupport.

3. The Mission Council shall have power, with the consent of the Chairman of the District, to appoint one or more of its experienced members to do the work indicated in clause b of the preceding section, i.e., to supervise the evangelistic work of the Mission.

4. The Mission Council, when so requested by the Chairman of the District, shall appoint a treasurer to take charge of the funds and the books referred to in clause c of section 2, above; but he shall pay out no money without a written order from the Chairman of the District.

5. The Mission Council shall elect the foreign members of the Stationing Committee at the Annual Meeting.

3. Mission District Meeting.

381. 1. The constitution and powers of the District Meeting shall be the same as those of the ordinary District, as in Part II., Chap. II., Sec. I., of the Discipline, so far as they can be adapted to the condition of things in the foreign field.

2. In addition, however, it shall have power to station the ministers and preachers within the bounds of the Mission -the native members electing from their ordained ministers representatives on the Stationing Committee equal in number to the foreign representatives thereon.

4. Mission Conference.

382. 1. When there are fifteen or more ordained ministers on the field, and the General Board or the Committee of Finance and Consultation recommends the step, the Missions shall be erected into a Mission Conference, with power to divide into two or more Districts.

2. The constitution of the Mission Conference shall be the same as that of the ordinary Annual Conference, as in Part II., Chap. I., Sec. IV., of the Discipline, with the following limitations :--

a. It shall elect representatives to the General Conference, the General Board of Missions, and other Connexional Committees, only when authorized so to do by the General Board, which shall also designate the number of such representatives.

b. It shall not in any way interfere with the administration of the General Board of Missions, which shall continue as heretofore.

3. The General Board shall have power, in the event of a Mission Conference being formed, to amend the constitution of the Mission Council, so as to fit the altered circumstances, and to say what powers it possesses shall be surrendered to the Annual Conference.

5. Central Conference.

383. 1. When the Annual Conference, or the Missions of any other form of Methodism, wish to combine with the Missions or Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, in common plans of work, it shall be lawful, with the consent of the General Board, to organize a Central Conference, composed of representatives of the Missions concerned.

2. The Central Conference shall elect its own President. 3. The Conference may take under its supervision the Educational, Publishing, and other Connexional interests, so far as they are committed to it by the Annual Conferences or Missions concerned; but never in contravention of the Book of Discipline or Rules of the General Conference; and it shall have no authority to involve the Missionary Society in any financial responsibility, nor hold or control the property of the same without the official permission of said Society.

4. The Journal of the proceedings of this Central Conference, duly signed by the President and Secretary, shall be sent to the General Conference for its consideration.

XIX. Woman's Missionary Society.

384. 1. For the more successful prosecution of the missionary work of the Church among women, there shall be

an organization known as "The Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church," to be governed and regulated by its constitution, which may be altered or amended by the General Conference, if so required by the necessities of the work.

2. The Society shall work in harmony with the authorities of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, and be subject to their approval in the employment and remuneration of missionaries or other agents, the designation of fields of labor, and in general plans and designs of work.

3. The funds of the Society shall be raised by collections in meetings convened in the interests of woman's missionary work, by securing memberships and life memberships, and by any other plans of collection arranged by the Society, but always in such manner as not to prejudice the other funds of the Church.

4. All funds raised for the Society shall be reported by the minister in charge to the Annual Conference, and be entered in a column among the benevolent collections in the annual Minutes.

XX. Collegiate Missionary Society.

385. 1. Students of any of our Colleges may organize themselves into Societies in affiliation with the Missionary Society, under the title of Auxiliary Missionary Societies; and they shall collectively be known as "The Collegiate Auxiliary Missionary Society."

2. For the purpose of the Society as above, they shall have power to frame a constitution not inconsistent with the constitution of the Missionary Society.

3. Such Societies shall work in harmony with the authorities of the Missionary Society; and if at any time the said Societies should decide to send a missionary or missionaries to a foreign field, it shall be with the concurrence of the General Board of Missions.

4. They shall, year by year, report their income and expenditure to the General Board of Missions.

SECTION II.

SUPERANNUATION FUND.

CONSTITUTION OF THE SUPERANNUATION FUND.

I. Name.

386. The name of this Fund shall be "The Superannua tion Fund of the Methodist Church."

II. Members.

387. All ministers and probationers of the Toronto, London, Niagara, Guelph, Bay of Quinte, Montreal, Manitoba and North-West, and British Columbia Conferences shall be members of this Fund.

III. Management.

388. The Fund shall be managed by a Board composed - of twenty-six members, thirteen of whom shall be laymen. who are members of the Church.

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