The Stationing Committee? Pastoral Address ? Memorials and Miscellaneous Resolutions? Statistical Returns? Sabbath-schools? Contingent Fund? Education of Candidates for the Ministry? The Missionary Committee? Temperance? Credentials? State of the Work?

4. What ministers or probationers for the ministry have died during the year

?

5. What probationers for the ministry are appointed to attend Victoria University, the University of Mount Allison College, the Wesleyan Theological College, or Wesley College, Winnipeg?

6. Who compose the Board of Examiners for this year? 7. What minister is appointed by this Conference to the General Board of Missions?

8. What layman has been appointed to the General Board of Missions by the lay members of the Conference Missionary Committee?

9. Who are the Conference Treasurers for the Connexional Funds? General Conference? Contingent? Union Church Relief? Superannuation? Sustentation? Educational? Missionary Sunday-school Aid?

10. What vacancies are there in the General Confe. înce delegations?

11. Who are elected to fill vacancies in the General Conference delegations?

12. Who compose the Conference Special Committee? 13. What new Districts, Circuits and Missions have been formed?

14. What is the number of church members, churches, and other places of worship, and attendance on worship on

each Circuit and Mission? What is the number of deaths of members, baptisms administered, and of marriages solemnized by each minister?

15. What is the number of ministers, probationers for the ministry, and laymen in the Quarterly Official Board? Of Sabbath-schools? And (at the Conference preceding the General Conference) what connexional property is returned? These questions shall be answered in accordance with the authorized Conference Schedules.

16. What has been collected on each District for the various Connexional Funds? Have these amounts been remitted at the proper time to the several Treasurers, and paid over to the several claimants?

17. What are the reports of the several Committees ? 18. Have the District Sabbath-school Conventions been held?

19. What further measures can be adopted for the promotion of the work of God within or beyond the bounds of the Conference, and what are the recommendations of the District Meetings on this important subject?

20. Where are the ministers and probationers for the ministry stationed for the ensuing year?

21. Who are the Chairmen of Districts and the Financial Secretaries for the ensuing year?

SECTION V.

Special Ministerial Session.

137. The ministerial members of each Annual Conference shall hold a special session (to be called the Ministerial

Session) for the business to be transacted by ministers alone, in advance of the meeting of the Annual Conference for general business. Such special session shall be presided over by the General Superintendent or the President, and shall be held at least one day prior to the meeting of the Annual Conference, as may be determined by the previous Annual Conference, or at the call of the President.

138. Should it be found necessary, a special Ministerial Session may be held at any time during the sessions of the Annual Conference.

139. The ministers of the Annual Conference, in special session, shall examine the character and qualifications of all ministers and probationers for the ministry belonging to the Conference, in accordance with the Discipline, and their decisions shall be final, except in cases of appeal on questions of law.

140. A record of the proceedings of the Ministerial Sessions shall be kept by the Secretary, who shall report the same to the Annual Conference, for information and insertion in the Journal of Conference, and not for discussion.

141. The business of the Ministerial Session shall pro ceed in the following order:

The Presiding Officer shall open the session with the usual devotional services, and shall then cause the roll of the ministerial members of the Conference to be called.

What ministers or probationers have been transferred to or from this Conference?

Who are appointed as a Committee on Conference Relations?

Are there any objections or charges preferred against any of our ministers or probationers?

To this inquiry, each District Secretary shall answer for his District, after which time shall be given to each Chairman to report any charges preferred between District Meeting and Conference, and to report the progress made in the investigation of such charges.

Who have resigned from the ministry of our Church, and are entitled to credentials of standing?

Who are dropped in silence for irregular withdrawal from our work?

Who are suspended from the ministry?

Who are deposed from the ministry and expelled from the Church?

What probationers for the ministry are now received into full connexion with the Conference and ordained?

What probationers for the ministry remain on trial?
(a) Who are the probationers of three years?
(b) Who are the probationers of two years?
(c) Who are the probationers of one year?

(d) Who are the probationers on the list of reserve? What candidates for the ministry are now received on trial?

Who are the superannuated ministers ?
Who are the supernumerary ministers ?
Who are now located?

SECTION VI.

The Stationing Committee.

142. The Stationing Committee shall meet at the call of the President, at the place appointed for holding the Annual Conference, previous to the commencement of its sessions.

1. The Stationing Committee shall meet as often as may be necessary, during the sessions of the Conference, for the revision of the stations, and any minister shall have the right to appear before the Committee to represent his case in regard to his appointment.

2. Any Quarterly Board interested may also appear by not more than two representatives, appointed at a regular meeting of the Board, or at a meeting of the members of the Board called for this purpose only, by the Superintendent, or two other members of the Board, a majority being present, all having been notified.

3. The first draft of stations, in printed form, shall be placed on the table of the Conference at the close of the first session, and copies shall be supplied to the members; the second and final draft at any time before the close of the Conference, as the Conference may order.

4. The Stationing Committee shall not allow any minister or probationer for the ministry to remain more than three years successively on the same Circuit, except the General Conference officers, superannuated and supernumerary ministers, the missionaries among the Indians and on the French and Foreign Mission Districts, and such ministers as may be appointed to our educational institutions; nor shall a