ally agreed upon, instead of allowing them to become permanent claimants upon the Supernumerary Fund.

VII. Change in Constitution.

453. No change shall be made in this Constitution until after notice thereof shall have been given to the General Committee, whose duty it shall be to report all such notices to each of the three Annual Conferences interested; nor then, unless the proposed change or changes shall have been concurred in by two-thirds of the members of the Fund present, and voting thereon, in the said three Conferences, the number of the contents and non-contents being carefully taken and put upon record in the Journal of each of the said Conferences, and shall be certified by the President and Secretary of each Conference to the next meeting of the General Committee. When the aggregate required number of two-thirds of all the members voting in the three Conferences shall be found to have been given in favor of the proposed change or changes, it shall be the duty of the General Committee so to report to the representatives of the aforesaid three Annual Conferences to the next ensuing General Conference, in order that the said proposed and requested change or changes may be confirmed by the General Conference.

SECTION IV.

THE CONTINGENT FUND.

CONSTITUTION OF THE CONTINGENT FUND.

I. Name.

454. Each Annual Conference shall have a Contingent Fund, to be called "The Contingent Fund of the Methodist Church."

II. Object.

455. The object of this Fund shall be:

1. To relieve cases of special affliction and to defray extraordinary expenses incurred in the services of the Church. 2. The surplus, if any, shall be used for such objects as each Conference may define.

III. Sources of Income.

456. The sources of income shall be:

1. Collections to be taken up on all Circuits.

2. The public collections taken up at each Annual Conference.

IV. Committee.

457. Each Annual Conference shall elect seven ministers and seven laymen, who shall be the Contingent Fund Committee for such Conference. It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider all claims properly presented to it, and appropriate all the funds placed at its disposal to their proper objects, as directed by the Conference.

458. Each Annual Conference shall provide such regu lations in reference to this Fund, in accordance with the foregoing provisions, as it may deem necessary.

SECTION V.

THE CHILDREN'S FUND.

459. Each Annual Conference may have a Children's Fund under its own control and management, subject to the following conditions and restrictions :—

1. The revenue of any such Fund shall be raised by such form of assessment as each Annual Conference may, in its judgment, consider best.

2. The Children's Fund Committee of the Annual Conference shall have the power to exempt any Circuit or Mission from the assessment for this Fund upon the recommendation of the Annual Conference.

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3. The amount payable to each child until eighteen years age shall be not more than twenty-five dollars per annum; and if in any case the Fund shall not be sufficient to pay the full amount, it shall be divided pro rata, according to the amount at the disposal of the Conference.

4. The claims of children whose fathers are employed on the French or Indian Missions shall be paid by the Missionary Society provided that no missionary shall receive any allowance from this Fund who receives $600 or more from all other sources. And the same regulations shall apply to

all ministers.

5. No such claims shall be paid out of the Mission Funds in any Conference where the Children's Fund is abolished or discontinued.

6. The claimants on this Fund shall be: (a) The children of Superannuated Ministers, such as were born whilst their fathers were in the active work; (b) The children of such

ministers in the active work as receive less than $600 per annum from all other sources.

7. The Children's Fund of the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland Conferences, may be continued on the same basis and under the same regulations as have previously existed in those Conferences, or according to such rules and regulations as they may deem best.

SECTION VI.

CHURCH AND PARSONAGE AID FUND.

CONSTITUTION.

I. Name.

460. The Fund shall be known as "The Church and Parsonage Aid Fund of the Methodist Church."

II. Object.

461. The object of the Fund shall be to aid in the erection of churches and parsonages, on sites held in trust by our Model Deed, on the Stations, Circuits or Missions of the Methodist Church, and the reduction of debts upon the same, by means of loans at low rates of interest, on such conditions as will secure the earliest possible extinction of all liabilities upon the property aided.

III. Management.

462. The management of the Fund shall be vested in a Board of nine Directors (a majority of whom shall be lay

men), to be elected quadrennially by the General Conference. The Board shall have authority

1. To make loans to Trustee Boards of churches or parsonages, in harmony with the objects set forth in the constitution and the general regulations hereinafter mentioned.

2. To receive moneys on deposit at low rates of interest for the purposes of the Fund.

3. To institute proceedings, when necessary, to foreclose mortgages, and recover loans or interest when due.

4. To sell, assign, or otherwise dispose of mortgages and securities.

5. To employ such assistance as it may deem necessary for the correct keeping of the accounts and the prompt and accurate transaction of the business connected with the Fund.

6. To fill any vacancy that may occur in the Board or its officers during the Quadrennium.

7. And generally to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of the constitution, and the general objects of the Fund.

IV. Capital.

463. The capital of the Fund shall consist of—

1. Moneys or securities now belonging to the Church and Parsonage Aid Fund for the North-West.

2. Moneys or securities now belonging to any Church or Parsonage Aid Fund in any of the Annual Conferences, subject to the consent of said Conferences.

3. Legacies or donations that have been or shall hereafter be made for the objects contemplated by the Fund. 4. Moneys received on deposit.