deaconess uses, within the bounds of an Annual Conference, shall report regularly to its Conference Board at least one month before the meeting of the Conference, according to such form as the General Deaconess Board shall adopt for use throughout the Church, and shall furnish such other information as its Conference Board may request.

VIII. Exception

¶ 222. The foregoing provisions shall relate to all Annual Conferences, Mission Conferences, and Missions. But in those parts of Europe where the deaconess work exists as a legal corporation, with an inspector appointed by the Annual Conference, any of the foregoing provisions not compatible with the provisions of such legal corporation shall be inoperative.

PART VI

JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION

I. TRIAL OF BISHOP

II. TRIAL OF MISSIONARY BISHOP

IIL TRIAL OF MEMBER OF CONFERENCE
IV. TRIAL OF PREACHER

V. TRIAL OF LOCAL PREACHER

VI. TRIAL OF MEMBER

VII. JUDICIAL CONFERENCE

VIII. APPEAL OF BISHOP

IX. APPEAL OF MEMBER OF CONFERENCE

X. RESTORATION OF CREDENTIALS

XI. APPEAL OF LOCAL PREACHER

XII. APPEAL OF MEMBER-COURT OF APPEALS

CHAPTER I

TRIAL OF BISHOP

223. A Bishop is answerable for his conduct to the General Conference, which shall have power to order the manner of his trial.

¶224. When a Bishop is accused of immoral conduct, the District Superintendent within whose District said immorality is alleged 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 charge in the case, and shall send a copy thereof, so signed, 'to the accused, and shall give notice thereof to one of the Bishops. Said Bishop, so notified, shall convene a Judicial Conference, to be composed of the Triers of Appeals, appointed as hereinafter provided, of five neighboring Conferences. Said Judicial Conference shall have full power to try the accused Bishop, and to suspend him from the functions of his Office, depose him from the Ministry, or expel him from the Church, as they may deem his offense requires. One of the Bishops shall preside at his trial.

225. The accused shall have the right of peremptory challenge, yet not so as to reduce the number of the Judicial Conference below twenty-one.

226. The President of such Judicial Conference shall, at the commencement of the trial, appoint a Secretary, who shall make a correct record of the