of the Discipline shall state the language of the paragraph and line proposed to be altered, and also the language proposed to be substituted. 25. All committees proposing changes of Discipline shall not only recite the paragraph and line proposed to be amended, but also the paragraph as amended complete. 26. All written motions, reports, and communications to the Conference shall be passed to the Secretary, to be by him read to the Conference. 27. All committees shall furnish duplicates of their reports. 28. A call for a vote by orders shall be made and seconded by members of the same order. 29. When voting by orders the separation shall be merely in regard to the taking, announcing, deciding, and recording the vote of each order on the question on which the separate vote is "demanded." Any incidental matter bearing upon such vote shall be decided by the Conference acting "as one body." In taking a vote by orders it shall be by a count vote, first of the ministerial, and then of the lay, delegates; but either order may call for the ayes and noes by one fourth of its members present and voting, and if the call is sustained the names of the delegates, first of the ministerial, and then of the lay delegates, shall be called, and each member shall answer aye or no. 30. Where a subject-matter has been received by the Conference and referred to a committee, and a report thereon has been made to the Conference, it shall not be in order for another committee to consider the same subject or for the Conference to entertain a report from committee on said subject; but when any committee shall ascertain that a subject which has been referred to it has also been referred to another committee it shall promptly report the fact to the Conference, and the Conference shall decide which committee shall have permanent charge of said subject. 31. All demonstrations of approval or disapproval during the progress of debate shall be deemed a breach of order. 32. These rules shall not be suspended except by a vote of two thirds of the members present and voting NOTE. The matter contained in this Appendix to the Discipline is sufficiently important to justify its publication in this form. Some of it is taken from the General Conference Journals, and is therefore the action of the General Conference, although not ordained as part of the Discipline. Some of it, as the Courses of Study, has received the sanction of the Bishops. and is inserted for convenient reference, while other portions of it are suggestive and useful, as the forms of charges, estimates of General Conference expenses etc. EDITOR OF DISCIPLINE. 421 INDEX. The figures refer to the ¶¶ of the Discipline, and the §§ to the subdivisions of the Paragraphs.] forming committee.. 222 8 how tried between Conferences. for trying Presiding Elder. may be tried in his absence for trying supernumerary or superannuated.. Accused Preacher on Trial, amenable to Quarterly or District Conference.... 232 222 $ 222 $ 2 222 § 3 222 222 S |