the Committee. The Book Agents are authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Book Committee, to sell any real estate or personal property when it may be deemed best for the interests of the Church and Book Concern. The Committee shall also attend to all matters referred to it by the Agents or Editors for its action or counsel.

416. The three Members at New York and the three at Cincinnati shall have power to suspend an Agent or Editor for cause to them sufficient, and a time shall be fixed at as early a day as practicable for the investigation of the official conduct of said Agent or Editor, due notice of which shall be given by the Chairman of the Book Committee to the Bishops, who shall select one of their number to be present and preside at the investigation, which shall be before the fourteen Members from the Districts into which the Annual Conferences are distributed, two thirds of whom may remove said Agent or Editor from office in the interval of the General Conference. And in case a vacancy occurs in any of the Agencies or Editorial departments authorized by the General Conference, it shall be the duty of the Book Committee and the General Superintendents, two at least of the Superintendents being present, and a majority of those present concurring, as soon as practicable to provide for such vacancy until the next General Conference.

¶ 417. The Book Committee shall be governed by the following regulations :

§ 1. Immediately after its appointment, the Members shall divide themselves into two Sections of ten each, the one to consist of the members from the Eastern Districts, together with those chosen from New York and vicinity, to be called the Eastern Section; the other to consist of the Members from the Western Districts, and those chosen from Cincinnati and vicinity, to be calleá the Western Section.

§ 2. To the Eastern Section shall pertain the supervision of the New York Publishing House in all its departments. The three members chosen from New York and vicinity shall constitute a Local Subcommittee, which shall meet monthly at the Book Room in New York to examine into all the transactions of the month preceding. It shall keep a correct record of its proceedings, to be submitted to the Eastern Section of the Book Committee at its Annual Meeting, to be held at the place of, and on the day previous to, the meeting of the Book Committee.

3. The Western Section of the Book Committee shall perform the same duties for the Publishing House at Cincinnati, and be under the same regulations as are herein specified for the government of the Eastern Section.

§ 4. The Annual Meeting of the Book Committee shall be held on the second Wednesday of

February: and each Section shall have meetings at such time as it may elect.

General Directions.

¶ 418. There shall be elected by the General Conference, to serve for four years, the following Editors: The Editor of the "Methodist Review," who shall also be the Editor of the Books of the General Catalogue; the Editor of Sunday-School Books, Papers, and Tracts, at New York; the Editor of the "Christian Advocate," at New York; the Editor of the "Pittsburg Christian Advocate," at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; the Editor of the "Northern Christian Advocate," at Syracuse, New York; the Editor of the "California Christian Advocate," at San Francisco, California; and an Editor of the "South-western Christian Advocate," at New Orleans, Louisiana. Also, an Editor of the "Western Christian Advocate," at Cincinnati, Ohio, who shall be Editor of the Books for the Western Methodist Book Concern; an Editor of the "Christian Apologist," and German Books of the General Catalogue; an Editor of the German "Monthly Family Magazine," "Sunday-School Bell," "Family Library," Tracts, and other German Sunday-School Publications, all of which shall be published at Cincinnati, Ohio; an Editor of the "North-western Christian Advocate," at Chicago, Illinois; and

also an Editor of the "Central Christian Advocate," at Saint Louis, Missouri. All which Editors, if chosen from among the Traveling Preachers, shall be Members of such Annual Conferences as they, with the approbation of the Bishops, may select. The Officers mentioned in this chapter shall be either Ministers or Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

419. The Editor of Sunday-School Books, Papers, and Tracts shall also have charge of all our Tract Publications, and shall be Corresponding Secretary of the Sunday-School Union and of the Tract Society. He shall also, in consultation with the Book Agents, have charge of the department of Sunday-School Requisites, including Books of Instruction for Sunday-Schools and Normal Classes. He shall also be Superintendent of the Department of Sunday-School Instruction. The Sunday-School Union and the Tract Society shall each pay such proportion of his salary as the Book Committee, in consultation with the Executive Committee of each Society, shall consider just, in view of the time spent by the Secretary in the service of each Society. The Editor of German Sunday-School Publications in Cincinnati shall be the German Assistant Secretary of the Sunday-School Union and of the Tract Society, without additional salary.

¶ 420. Every Annual Conference shall appoint a Committee, which, in the absence of the Agent,

shall attend to the collection of the accounts sent out from the Book Concern, and return an accurate report of the same.

1421. Every Presiding Elder, Minister, and Preacher shall do every thing in his power to recover all debts due to the Concern for Books or Periodicals within the bounds of his Charge. If any person, Preacher or Member, be indebted to the Book Concern, and refuse or neglect to make payment, or to come to a just settlement, let him be dealt with in the same manner as is directed in other cases of debt and disputed accounts.

T 422. The "California Christian Advocate" shall be published at San Francisco, California, by the Agents at New York, under the direction of the General Book Committee, with a Local Committee of seven persons appointed by the General Conference.

¶ 423. There shall be a Publishing Committee for the "Pittsburg Christian Advocate" at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, consisting of three Members from the Pittsburg Conference, two from the Erie Conference, two from the East Ohio Conference, and two from the West Virginia Conference, to be chosen by the General Conference. The Committee shall keep an account of receipts and expenditures for the paper, correspond with the Agents at New York, hold all moneys, after defraying current expenses, subject to their order, and shall report annually on the