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8. To see that every part of the Discipline is duly enforced, and to hear and determine appeals from the decisions of Superintendents of Circuits or Missions within the District on questions of law, notice of such appeal to be given within two weeks after notice of the decision appealed against.

9. To give the President all necessary information of the state of his District.

10. To prepare a condensed report of the operations of the Missionary Society in his District, to be compiled from the reports of individual missionaries, as approved by the Annual District Meeting.

11. To ascertain and report to the Annual Conference, for publication in the Minutes, the names and addresses of ministers and widows who are claimants on the Superannuation Fund, and also the names and dates of birth of children of deceased ministers who are claimants on the Fund, together with any changes that have taken place in relation to these claimants by death, limitation of claim, marriage, non-membership, or other causes during the year, on their respective Districts.

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12. The Chairman is especially directed and required to visit any Circuit or Mission in his District when requested by the Superintendent of such Circuit or Mission in case of any dispute or difficulty which the Superintendent may desire assistance to adjust; also in all cases of appeal. all these cases the Circuit or Mission visited shall pay the travelling expenses of the Chairman. The Chairman shall have authority to call in any minister or probationer of his District to supply his place when absent in visiting any Circuit or Mission.

13. Should the Chairman, or the Superintendent of the Circuit, or any of his colleagues, be requested to withdraw, on any occasion, from any of our regularly-constituted meetings for business, he shall in no case do so; and should he be obliged to withdraw from any such meeting during its sittings, the meeting will be thereby dissolved. And if any Chairman, or Superintendent of a Circuit, or other minister, do willingly submit to any requisition, so as to withdraw from any such meeting before its conclusion, he shall, on proof thereof, receive due censure at the ensuing Annual Conference.

163. In case of the death or disability of a Chairman during the year, the Financial Secretary shall call a meeting of the ministerial members of the District, and the lay members of the previous Annual District Meeting, who shall elect by ballot one of their number, being a member of the Conference, as Chairman until the ensuing Conference.

164. Financial Secretaries, District Secretaries, and Treasurers of Connexional Funds in the Annual Conferences shall require that the amounts received by them agree with the schedules, and that the schedules agree one with the other.

The District Meeting shall appoint one minister and one layman to audit all Circuit and District schedules, and see that the extensions and additions are correct.

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SECTION II.

The Financial District Meeting.

165. A Financial District Meeting shall be held in each District, not later than the month of September in each year.

166. The Financial District Meeting shall be composed of the Superintendents of Circuits and a lay delegate from each Circuit and Mission in the District appointed by the Quarterly Official Board.

167. The business of the Financial District Meeting shall be :

1. To apportion to the several Circuits the amounts placed at its disposal by the Annual Conference.

2. To examine into the circumstances and probable income of the Domestic, Indian, Foreign or other Missions within the jurisdiction of the District, in the same way as they examine into those of the dependent Circuits, and recommend the amount which, in their judgment, should be appropriated towards the support of such Missions; which shall be immediately reported by the Chairman to the Presi dent of the Annual Conference and to the Missionary Secretary.

3. To arrange the claims of the children of ministers on the District; and to receive from the Chairman of the District the amount to be raised by each Circuit and Mission for the Superannuation Fund, and take into account the circumstances of any Circuit or Mission which may be regarded as exceptional, and make provision for the relief

of such exception; provided the District as a whole contribute the amount designated as its proportion.

4. To make arrangements for Missionary and Educational Meetings, which arrangements shall be binding on all concerned, and inquire into the state of religion in the District, and devise means for the promotion of the spiritual interests of the Church.

168. In case of the death of the District Representative to the Annual Conference Missionary Committee, or when by the formation of a new District, or otherwise, there is no District Representative, then the laymen present at the Financial District Meeting shall elect by ballot one of their number to fill the office of District Representative.

169. The Financial Secretary shall be the Treasurer of all Connexional Funds on the District except the Missionary Fund, and shall pay to the Superintendents of Circuits, or on their order, the sums appropriated to their Circuits, which payments such Superintendents shall report to their respective Quarterly Official Boards.

170. The Financial Secretary of each District shall, as soon as possible after each Financial District Meeting, furnish the Treasurers of the Superannuation Fund with a complete statement of the amounts required from each Circuit as amended by the District Meeting.

CHAPTER III.

CIRCUIT OFFICIAL MEETINGS.

SECTION I.

The Quarterly Official Board.

171. There shall be a Quarterly Official Board on each Circuit, Mission, or Station, as constituted and designated at the Annual Conference, consisting of the Ministers and Probationers for the ministry, the Local Preachers, the Exhorters, the Circuit Stewards, the Leaders and Assistant Leaders of Classes, the Superintendents of Sabbath schools, and the Presidents of Epworth Leagues, being members of the Church, one representative from each Board of Trustees, he being a member of the Church in the Circuit to which the Trustee Board which he represents belongs, and whose appointment shall be annual, and, also, of additional representatives who may have been appointed by the Societies of the Circuit. The number of such additional representatives shall not exceed the number of the Stewards on the Circuit.

172. The Superintendent of the Circuit is the Chairman of the Quarterly Official Board. When the Chairman of the District is present he shall have the right to preside.

173. The Superintendent is the minister on each Circuit and Mission who is appointed from time to time to take charge of the Societies therein,

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