years such service, the payments shall continue during his natural life, provided, in all cases, his relation as a superannuated minister be continued: For 5 years' service, $25; 6 years, $30; 7 years, $35; 8 years, $40; 9 years, $45; 10 years, $50; 11 years, $56; 12 years, $63; 13 years, $71; 14 years, $80; 15 years, $90; 16 years, $100; 17 years, $110; 18 years, $122; 19 years, $135; 20 years, $152; 21 years, $170; 22 years, $190; 23 years, $206; 24 years, $218; 25 years, $230; 26 years, $244; 27 years, $258; 28 years, $272; 29 years, $286; 30 years, $300.

417. For thirty years' service or upwards, ten dollars for each such year. All present claimants shall continue to receive from the Fund according to the scale of 1886, and for the number of years therein provided.

418. Widows of deceased ministers, being members of our Church, shall receive two-thirds of the amount their husbands would have received, according to the above scale, except such widows as were fifteen years younger than their husbands at the time of their marriage, and were married after their husbands were fifty-five years of age. Such cases shall be referred to the Board.

VII. Regulations.

419. Any minister who may locate and enter into secular business, and subsequently be received into the Conference, shall not be allowed any claim for the time previous to his location.

420. The Board shall have power, upon the recommenda tion of the Annual Conference, to commute with such ministers as may be superannuated from causes which do not disqualify them for secular business, by payment of such

sums as may be deemed equitable by the Board, instead of allowing them to become claimants upon the Superannuation Fund. Such commutation shall cancel all claims of wife and children.

421. Ministers who retire temporarily from the work on account of ill health or accident, while they receive from the Superannuation Fund, may also receive from the Contingent Fund or Missionary Fund, for services rendered in the regular or missionary work. Nevertheless, in all such cases, the minister shall be required to contribute twelve dollars annually to the Superannuation Fund while thus employed. Any superannuated minister who changes his place of residence shall notify the General Treasurer of the Fund and the President of his Annual Conference of such change within thirty days thereof.

422. Any minister who may be expelled from the Conference shall thereby forfeit the amount which he may have paid into the Superannuation Fund, and shall have no further claim upon the Fund.

423. Any minister who shall leave our work shall thereby forfeit one-half the amount he has paid into the Fund.

424. No application for a superannuated relation shall be granted by an Annual Conference, except on a recommendation of a Committee on Conference Relations, consisting of the ministerial members of the Superannuation Board in the Conference and seven other ministers elected by the Conference, to whom such application shall have been referred. Nor shall the said Committee, in making their decisions, take into consideration anything else than this question, namely: "Is the applicant really worn out,

or temporarily disabled, in the Itinerant service?" Provided, however, that in case the said Committee report adversely, the Conference may, by a vote of not less than three-fourths of the members present, grant such application. Each Annual Conference shall appoint a Conference Treasurer of the Superannuation Fund, who, during the session of Conference, shall make a full report of the income; and, should there be any deficiency in the amount required, the Conference shall adopt such measures as may be deemed expedient to secure the whole amount.

425. When the claims upon this Fund for any year shall exceed the income for the year the Board may direct the Treasurer to deduct from the amount of each claim such sum as shall be equal to a pro rata amount of such deficiency. 426. Each subscriber of five dollars or more annually shall have his or her name printed in the Minutes of the Annual Conference, and shall receive a copy gratis.

SECTION III.

SUPERNUMERARY MINISTERS' AND MINISTERS'

WIDOWS' FUND.

CONSTITUTION OF THE SUPERNUMERARY MINISTERS' AND MINISTERS' WIDOWS' FUnd.

I. Name.

427. This Fund, heretofore known as "The Supernumerary Ministers' and Ministers' Widows' Fund of the Conference of Eastern British America," shall hereafter be designated, "The Supernumerary Ministers' and Minis

ters' Widows' Fund of the Eastern Section of the Methodist Church," embracing the Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and the Bermudas.

II. Membership.

428. All members of the Nova Scotia, the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and the Newfoundland Annual Conferences, complying with Article IV., ¶ 440, of this Constitution, shall be members of this Fund.

III. Management.

429. The representatives of the aforesaid Annual Conferences to the General Conferences shall, at some time during the session of each General Conference, at a meeting summoned not later than the sixth day of the Session of the General Conference, by a General Superintendent, at which a General Superintendent or a President of one of the Annual Conferences concerned shall preside, to consider the affairs of this Fund, elect by ballot one or more persons as General Treasurer or Treasurers of the Fund.

430. It shall be the duty of the Treasurers, so elected, to receive and disburse, from year to year, all the moneys constituting the Current Income, according to the provisions of the Constitution; and also to hold and manage, under the supervision and direction of the Investment Committee, the capital stock of the Fund.

431. It shall be the duty of the Treasurers to prepare and present at each of the meetings of the General Committee a particular account, duly audited, of all the business transacted for the Fund during the previous Conference year.

432. The Treasurers, so elected, are to hold office for four years, or until their successors are appointed, unless one or both should die, or resign, or become, in the judgment of the General Committee, disqualified for the discharge of the duties of the office. In any such case it shall be the duty of the General Committee to elect some other person or persons to fill the vacant place or places until the meeting of the General Conference.

433. The General Committee of this Fund shall consist of eight members, viz.:-The two General Treasurers and six other persons, that is, one minister and one layman, to be appointed annually from and by each of the said Annual Conferences.

434. This Committee, so constituted, shall meet annually, at the call of the General Treasurers, and five of its mem bers shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

435. It shall be the duty of this Committee, at each of its annual meetings, to examine carefully the reports of the Treasurers, and of the Investment Committee, of all the business transacted for the Fund, and to cause a full report of the results of such examination to be prepared for presentation to each of the Conferences interested, at its next annual meeting; also, a report embodying a summary of all the business of the four years, to be laid before the next quadrennial meeting of the representatives of the three Conferences aforesaid.

A special meeting of the Committee shall be summoned in the event of the death or disability of one of the General Treasurers, by the surviving one, and in case of emergency, on the call of four of the members of the General Committee.