year a regular Catalogue of the Members in towns and cities by streets and numbers.

§ 2. To leave his successor a particular account of the Circuit or Station, including an account of the Subscribers for our periodicals.

§ 3. To enforce vigorously, but calmly, the Rules of the Society.

§ 4. To suffer no Love-feast to last above an hour and a half.

§ 5. To furnish all Members of the Church about to remove from one Circuit or Station to another with a Certificate of removal, in the form specified in ¶ 36, § 5, and to inform them that without such Certificate they will not be received into the Church in another place, and that the Certificate will not be valid for a longer period than one year from the date thereof; but if for any cause it has been impracticable to present the Certificate within the year, it may be renewed by the Preacher in Charge of the Church from which it was received.

§ 6. It shall also be the further duty of the Preacher in Charge, wherever practicable, to notify of such Certificate and removal the Pastors of those Charges within the bounds of which persons having received such Certificates shall have removed. Also, on receiving Certificates, to inform the Pastors of the Charges from which the Certificates were given, and to send Certificates for all Members removing without them to the Pastors

of the Charge within whose bounds they have removed; and if said address cannot be ascertained within one year the person shall be marked "removed without Certificate;" provided, that when a Member wishes to remove his residence out of any particular Charge, and there are, in the judgment of the Preacher in Charge, sufficient reasons for withholding a Certificate, and the Member is willing to be tried, the Preacher shall be liable to a complaint for maladministration unless he proceed in the trial of such person.

§ 7. Certificates of removal shall not be given unless a change of the place of holding Membership is actually intended.

§ 8. A Preacher may give a note of recommendation to any Member who wishes to unite with any other Evangelical denomination.

§ 9. When any Member in good standing proposes to withdraw from the Methodist Episcopal Church he shall communicate his purpose in writing to the Preacher in Charge of the Circuit or Station. On receiving such notice of withdrawal the Preacher in Charge shall enter the fact of his withdrawal upon the records of the Church.

§ 10. To recommend every-where decency and cleanliness.

§ 11. To read and explain the General Rules at least once a year in every Congregation.

§ 12. The Preacher who has the charge of a

Circuit or Station shall appoint prayer-meetings wherever advisable in his Charge.

§ 13. Wherever it is practicable he shall so arrange the appointments as to give the Local Preachers regular and systematic employment on the Sabbath.

14. To license such persons as he may deem proper to officiate as Exhorters in the Church, according to the provisions of the Discipline.

Supernumerary Preachers.

¶ 191. A Supernumerary Preacher is one who, because of impaired health, is temporarily unable to perform effective work. He may receive an appointment, or be left without one, according to the judgment of the Annual Conference of which he is a member; but he shall have no claim on the Beneficiary Funds of the Church except by vote of the Conference; and he shall be subject to all the limitations of the Discipline in respect to re-appointment and continuance in the same Charge that apply to Effective Preachers. In case he be left without an appointment he shall have a seat in the Quarterly Conference, and all the privileges of Membership, in the place where he may reside. He shall report to the Fourth Quarterly Conference, and to the Preacher in Charge, all marriages solemnized and all baptisms

administered.

In case he lives beyond the bounds of his Conference he shall forward annually a certificate similiar to that required of a Superannuated Preacher.

Superannuated Preachers.

¶ 192. Every Superannuated Preacher, who may reside without the bounds of the Conference of which he is a Member, shall have a seat in the Quarterly Conference, and all the privileges of Membership, in the Church where he may reside; he shall report to the Fourth Quarterly Conference, and to the preacher in charge, all marriages solemnized and all baptisms administered, and he shall annually forward to his Conference a certificate of his Christian and Ministerial conduct, together with an account of the number and circumstances of his family, signed by the Presiding Elder of the District, or the Preacher in Charge of the Circuit or Station within whose bounds he may reside; without which the Conference shall not be required to allow his claim, and may locate him without his consent.

Locating Unacceptable, Inefficient or Secular

Preachers,

¶ 193. When a Traveling Preacher is so unacceptable, inefficient, or secular, as to be no longer useful in his work, the Conference may request

him to ask for a location; and if he shall refuse to comply with the request, the Conference shall bear with him till the session next ensuing, at which time, if he persist in his refusal, the Conference may, without formal trial, locate him without his consent, by a vote of two thirds of the Members present and voting; provided, however, that in no case shall a Preacher be located while there are charges against him for immoral conduct.

Surrendering the Ministerial Office.

¶ 194. Any Member of an Annual Conference in good standing, who may desire to surrender his Ministerial Office and withdraw from the Conference, may be allowed to do so; in which case his Credentials shall be filed with the papers of the Annual Conference of which he was a member, and his Membership in the Church may be recorded in any Society within whose bounds he may wish to reside.

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