county of El Paso in the State of Texas, and the State of Chihuahua in the Republic of Mexico. § 9. NEW MEXICO SPANISH MISSION CONFERENCE shall include the work among the Spanish-speaking peoples in the States of New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado; El Paso, Texas, and the States of Chihuahua and Sonora in the Republic of Mexico. § 10. PACIFIC CHINESE MISSION shall include all the Chinese work between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, excepting that this action shall only become operative as regards the Chinese work in Portland, Oregon, upon the concurrence of the Bishops resident in Portland and San Francisco. § 11. PACIFIC JAPANESE MISSION shall include all the Japanese work west of the Mississippi River. § 12. PACIFIC SWEDISH MISSION CONFERENCE shall include the Swedish work in the States of California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Arizona, and that part of Montana west of the Rocky Mountains. §. 13. PORTO RICO MISSION shall include Porto Rico and the adjacent islands belonging to its civil jurisdiction, together with any work which may be established by our Church or come under its care in any of the islands known as the West Indies. § 14. SOUTH FLORIDA MISSION shall include the colored work in that part of the State of Florida lying south of parallel twenty-nine, including New Smyrna, Daytona, Ormond, and De Land. § 15. SOUTHERN SWEDISH MISSION CONFERENCE shall include all the Swedish work in Texas. 16. UTAH MISSION shall include the State of Utah. 17. WYOMING MISSION shall include the State of Wyoming, except the National Park and Crook County. II. Foreign Countries ¶ 488. SOUTH AMERICA. North Andes Mission Conference shall include all of South America not included in the Eastern South America and the Chile Conferences. ¶ 489, § 1. EUROPE. Austria-Hungary Mission Conference shall include the Empire of Austria-Hungary. § 2. Bulgaria Mission Conference shall include the Principality of Bulgaria north of the Balkan Mountains, and other contiguous countries of the Balkan Peninsula lying north and west of said section. § 3. France Mission Conference shall include the Republic of France. § 4. Russia Mission shall include the Empire of Russia. ¶ 490, § 1. ASIA. Burma Mission Conference shall include Burma. § 2. Central Provinces Mission Conference shall include all the Central Provinces, and the Feudatory States under the supervision of the Central Provinces Government, Berar, and such portion of Central India not embraced in the Bombay Conference as lies north of the Central Provinces and south of the twenty-fifth parallel of north latitude; that portion of the Nizam's Dominions lying north of the Godavery Valley Railway, from Jalna in the Aurungabad District, to the point where that railway crosses the Godavery River; such country as lies north of the Godavery River from this point eastward to a point twenty-five miles west of Sironcha. The boundary line shall be thence southeastward along the Godavery River. § 3. West China Mission Conference shall include the work in the western part of the Chinese Republic and in Tibet. ¶ 491, § 1. AFRICA. East Central Africa Mission Conference shall include the work in East Africa, south of the Equator. § 2. North Africa Mission Conference shall include the work in North Africa. § 3. West Central Africa Mission Conference shall include the work in West Africa, south of the Equator, and the Madeira Islands. CHAPTER IV CENTRAL MISSION CONFERENCES 492, § 1. EUROPEAN CENTRAL CONFERENCE 1. Austria-Hungary Mission Conference. 7. North Germany Annual Conference. 9. Russia Mission. 10. South Germany Annual Conference. 11. Sweden Annual Conference. 12. Switzerland Annual Conference. § 2. EASTERN ASIA CENTRAL CONFERENCE 3. Foochow Annual Conference. 6. North China Annual Conference. § 3. SOUTHERN ASIA CENTRAL CONFERENCE 2. Bombay Annual Conference. 3. Burma Mission Conference. 4. Central Provinces Mission Conference. 5. Malaysia Annual Conference. 6. North India Annual Conference. 7. Northwest India Annual Conference. 9. South India Annual Conference. CHAPTER V ENABLING ACTS ¶ 493. The following Enabling Acts are in force; provided, that the number of Members in any adjoining Annual Conference, Mission Conference, or Mission shall not be diminished to less than twentyfive. I. In the United States TO UNITE CONFERENCES OR MISSIONS ¶ 494, § 1. The Cincinnati and the Central Ohio Conferences, during the next quadrennium, by a ma jority vote of each Conference and with the concurrence of the Bishop or Bishops presiding, may unite and form one Annual Conference to include the territory of both Conferences under such name as may be adopted. § 2. The Dakota Conference and the Black Hills Mission, during the next quadrennium, by a twothirds vote of the Members of said Conference and Mission present and voting and with the concurrence of the Bishop or Bishops presiding, may unite and form one Annual Conference. 3. In the event of the rejection of this Enabling Act, the line between the Black Hills Mission and the Conference shall be fixed as follows: Beginning at the Missouri River, at the north line of the State of South Dakota, following the river to the north line of Lyman County, thence west to the northwest corner of Lyman County, thence south to the north line of Mellette County, thence west to the northwest corner of Mellette County, thence south to the State line; subject to the ratification of a two-thirds vote of the members of said Mission and Conference present and voting. § 4. The Kansas and the South Kansas Conferences, during the next quadrennium, by a majority vote of each Conference and with the concurrence of the Bishop or Bishops presiding, may unite and form one Conference under such name as may be adopted. § 5. The Missouri and the Saint Louis Conferences, during the next quadrennium, by a majority vote of each Conference and with the concurrence of the Bishop or Bishops presiding, may unite and form one Conference, to be called the Missouri Conference, covering the entire State of Missouri. |