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NOTE 1.-Statistics No. I must be published in the General Minutes.

NOTE 2.-The several Annual Conferences are required invariably to publish Statistics Nos. I and II in their own Minutes. The publication of Statistics No. III is optional with the respective Conferences.

NOTE 3.-Statistical Secretaries of the Annual Conferences must furnish Statistics No. III to the Editor of Sunday School Books and Papers for use in his office.

Statistics No. I.

(1.) MEMBERSHIP.--Probationers. Full Members. Local Preachers. Deaths.

(2.) BAPTISMS. - Number of Children Baptized. Number of Adults Baptized.

(3.) CHURCH PROPERTY.—Number of Churches. Probable Value. Number of Parsonages. Probable Value. Paid for Building and Improving Churches and Parsonages. Paid on Old Indebtedness on Church Property. Present Indebtedness. Current Expenses, (for Sexton, Light, Fuel, etc.)

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(4.) SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. — Number of Schools. Number of Officers and Teachers. Number of Scholars of all Ages.

(5.) BENEVOLENT COLLECTIONS. -For Missions -a. From Churches: b. from Sunday-Schools. For the Board of Church Extension. For the Sunday School Union. For the Tract Society. For the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society. For Education. For the American

Bible Society. For the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. For the Woman's Home Missionary Society. Other Collections.

(6.) MINISTERIAL SUPPORT. For Pastors, Presiding Elders, and Bishops. For Conference Claimants.

NOTE. The General Conference has ordered that in reporting the amount raised in each Pastoral Charge for "Ministerial Support" the amount reported shall include the several sums raised for the support of the Pastor, for the support of the Presiding Elder, and for the support of the Bishops and shall also include the rent paid for a House for the Pastor; and in case the Pastor occupies a Parsonage, then it shall include, instead of rent paid, a sum equal to a fair rental value of the said Parsonage.

Statistics No. II.

MINISTERIAL SUPPORT.-Claim of the Pastor, including the rental value of Parsonage, or House rent. [If there is a Parsonage, indicate that fact by an asterisk placed after the amount of claim, thus: e. g., "Claim, $853."*] Receipts of the Pastor, including the rental value of Parsonage, or House rent.* Deficiency. Amount apportioned for the support of the Presiding Elder; amount paid the Presiding Elder. Amount apportioned for the support of the Bishops; amount paid for support of the

* Any Conference desiring to do so may use separate columns, in Static ics No. II, for House Rent and Traveling Expenses.

Bishops. Amount apportioned for Conference Claimants; amount paid for Conference Claim

ants.

Statistics No. III.

SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.—Number of Sunday-Schools. Number of Officers and Teachers. Number of Scholars of all ages. Number in Infant Class. Average Attendance of Teachers and Scholars. Number of Library Books. Total Expenses of the School this year. Number of Officers and Teachers who are Church Members or Probationers. Number of Scholars who are Members or Probationers. Number of Conversions.

NOTE. The report of Conference Treasurer shall be a summary showing the increase or decrease, by Districts, as compared with the previous year.

30. What is the Conference Treasurer's report for this Conference year?

31. What are the Claims on the Conference Fund?

32. What has been Received on these Claims, and how has it been Applied?

33. Where are the Preachers Stationed?

34. Where shall the next Conference be held? ¶ 73. The Electing and Ordaining of Deacons and Elders is to be done in the Aunual Confer

ences.

¶ 74. It shall be the duty of each Annual Conference to examine strictly into the state of the

Domestic Missions within its bounds, and to allow none to remain on the list of its Missions which, in the judgment of the Conference, is able to support itself.

175. Each Annual Conference shall report through its Secretary, annually, to the Secretaries of the Missionary Society at New York, the name of each District, Circuit, or Station, within its bounds, sustained in whole or in part by said Conference as a Mission, together with the amount of Missionary Money appropriated to such for the year, and also the number of years that each Mission has received assistance from the Missionary Treasury, and whether consecutively or otherwise.

176. Each Annual Conference shall cause the Collections, as reported by the Preachers for the Statistical Tables, to be compared with the receipts of the Conference Treasurers of the several Benevolent Societies, that discrepancies, if any, may be corrected before the publication of the Minutes.

¶ 77. Preachers in Charge shall report to their Annual Conferences the amount collected for each of our Benevolent Causes. They shall hand the money, or a satisfactory voucher for the same, to the Conference Treasurers, otherwise no credit shall be given to a contributing Charge.

¶78. In each Annual Conference the Bishop presiding shall inquire whether the Disciplinary

Plan for the support of our Benevolent Causes is carried out in every District and Pastoral Charge.

79. The signatures of the Bishops presiding are essential to authenticate the Journals of the Annual Conferences, and Journals not thus attested cannot be approved by the General Conference.

180. Each Annual Conference shall report, through its Statistical Secretary, to the SundaySchool Union, the number of Schools within its bounds, together with other facts named in the form published by the Union, and contained in the annual reports of Preachers, as directed in T189, § 12.

¶ 81. That the Statistics may be rendered more complete, let the following rules be observed:

§ 1. Each Annual Conference shall appoint a Statistical Secretary and also a Conference Treasurer, whose names and addresses shall be printed in the general Minutes at the head of the Statistical Tables of the Conference.

§2. Each Annual Conference shall require every Preacher in Charge to present his Statistical and Treasurer's Financial Reports complete, correct, and plainly written, on the first day of the Conference session.

§3. At the opening of the second day's session the Presiding Bishop shall call upon the Statistical Secretary and Conference Treasurer, respectively, to read the names of all Charges whose

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