composed of the Superintendents in charge and four other members to be nominated by the Board of Bishops and elected quadrennially by the General Conference.

§ 2. In a Mission field, under the supervision of a Missionary Bishop, there may be a Board composed of the Missionary Bishop of that field and four other members, two at large and two from the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, to be nominated by the said Missionary Bishop and elected quadrennially by the General Conference.

§ 3. These Boards shall have general supervision within their respective fields, but shall be subject to the General Deaconess Board.

§ 4. Vacancies shall be filled by the Bishop having jurisdiction over the field where the vacancy occurs.

PART V

JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION

I. TRIAL OF A BISHOP

II. TRIAL OF A MISSIONARY BISHOP

III. TRIAL OF A MEMBER OF AN ANNUAL

CONFERENCE

IV. TRIAL OF A PREACHER ON TRIAL

V. TRIAL OF A LOCAL PREACHER

VI. TRIAL OF A CHURCH MEMBER

VII. APPEAL OF A BISHOP

VIII. APPEAL OF A MEMBER OF AN ANNUAL CONFERENCE—JUDICIAL CONFERENCE

IX. RESTORATION OF CREDENTIALS

X. APPEAL OF A LOCAL PREACHER

XI. APPEAL OF A CHURCH MEMBER-COURT

OF APPEALS

XII. GENERAL DIRECTIONS

CHAPTER I

TRIAL OF A BISHOP

NOTE. Throughout Part V of the Discipline-Judicial Administration-the term "Immorality" is used to include any violation of the Moral Law.

I. Investigation

¶241. If a Bishop shall be accused of any violation of the moral law in the interval between sessions of the General Conference, the District Superintendent within whose District the offense is said to have been committed shall call to his aid four Traveling Elders, which five Ministers shall carefully inquire into the case; and if, in their judgment, there is reasonable ground for such accusation, they, or a majority of them, shall prepare and sign the proper charges in the case-unless such charges have already been prepared-shall send a copy of the same to the accused, and shall give notice thereof to one of the Bishops, furnishing him also with a copy of the charges. The Bishop so notified shall convene a Committee of Investigation to be composed of the Triers of Appeals, to be appointed as hereinafter provided, of four neighboring Conferences, over which Committee a Bishop shall preside. The accused shall have the right of peremptory challenge, yet so as not to reduce the number of the Committee below thirteen. The presiding Bishop shall appoint a Secretary, who shall keep a correct record of the proceedings and of the testimony. The Committee thus constituted shall

have full power to investigate the charges in the case, and if it finds them sustained, shall suspend the accused from all ministerial functions and Church privileges until the ensuing General Conference. The President and Secretary shall sign the records when properly approved, and the President shall transmit the same, including the charges, specifications, documents, and evidence, to the General Conference, on which, and such other evidence as may be admitted, the case shall finally be determined. Additional charges and specifications may be presented to the General Conference; provided, the accused has been given due notice of the same.

¶ 242. In case of imprudent conduct, the District Superintendent within whose District the alleged offense is said to have occurred shall take with him two Traveling Elders, and, if in their judgment there is sufficient ground for such accusation, shall admonish the Bishop so offending. If he persists in his imprudence, the matter shall be investigated in the manner provided in ¶ 241, or he may be brought to trial before the General Conference.

¶ 243. If it be alleged that a violation of the moral law or an imprudence has been committed beyond the bounds of any District, the District Superintendent within the bounds of whose District the Bishop resides shall proceed as herein before provided.

¶ 244. If a Bishop be charged with disseminating, publicly or privately, doctrines which are contrary to our Articles of Religion or our other present existing and established standards of doctrine, the same procedure shall be observed as is prescribed in ¶ 241, or he may be brought to trial before the General Conference.