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545. Trustees of Chartered Fund

OFFICE: 129 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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¶ 546. Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church

OFFICE: 420-28 Plum Street, Cincinnati, Ohio

President, JAMES N. GAMBLE.

Secretary, JOHN PEARSON.

Treasurer, JESSE R. CLARK.

CLASS 1. TERM EXPIRES IN EIGHT YEARS

Ministers: Bishop William F. Anderson, Charles E. Schenk, Frank S. Tincher.

Laymen: Jesse R. Clark, Merrill C. Slutes, F. L. Cook.

CLASS 2. TERM EXPIRES IN FOUR YEARS

Ministers: Frank G. Mitchell, John Pearson, L. C. Bentley.
Laymen: James N. Gamble, Herbert A. Winans, E. I. Antrim.

1547. Trustees of John Street Church

John Street, New York City.

James W. Pearsall,
James S. Coward,
John W. Crawford,
Edgar W. Rogers,

William Kennedy,
Carl S. Fowler,
William J. Stitt,
William Van Benschoten,

H. K. Carroll.

¶ 548. Corporate Names of Organizations, with Name of State under whose Laws each was Incorporated

The Chartered Fund of the Methodist Episcopal Church.-Pennsylvania.

Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church.-Ohio.

Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church.-New York.

The Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church.-Pennsylvania.

Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.-Ohio. Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church.-New York. The Board of Sunday Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church.— Illinois.

Board of Conference Claimants of the Methodist Episcopal Church— Illinois.

The Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church.—Illinois. The Temperance Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.-Kansas.

¶549. General Conference Commissions

§ 1. COMMISSION ON THE COURSES OF STUDY

Bishops E. H. Hughes and McConnell

Ministers: F. S. Townsend, L, F. W. Lesemann, H. F. Rall, F. W. Hannan; ex officio D. G. Downey, Book Editor.

§ 2. COMMISSION ON FINANCE

Bishops Berry, Burt, and Shepard.

Ministers: E. J. Lockwood, A. J. Coultas, Somerville Light, W. B. Winters, C. M. Boswell, U. G. Leazenby.

Laymen: F. C. Evans, J. M. Killits, H. S. Kennedy, Hanford Crawford, John Walton, Joseph R. Harker.

§ 3. COMMITTEE OF TWENTY-FIVE ON UNIFICATION

Bishops Cranston, J. W. Hamilton, McDowell, Leete, and Cooke Ministers: Edgar Blake, J. R. Day, D. G. Downey, J. F. Goucher, R. E. Jones, A. J. Nast, Frank Neff, E. M. Randall, C. B. Spencer, J. W. Van Cleve.

Laymen: George Warren Brown, C. W. Fairbanks, A. W. Harris, C. W. Kinne, I. G. Penn, I. E. Robinson, H. W. Rogers, William Rule, Alex. Simpson, Jr., R. V. Watt.

§ 4. COMMISSION ON FEDERATION OF COLORED CHURCHES

Bishops Neely, Henderson, and Thirkield
Ministers: J. P. Wragg, R. E. Jones, R. E. Gillum.
Laymen: I. G. Penn, E. H. McKissack, L. J. Price.

5. COMMISSION ON FAITH AND ORDER Bishops Hamilton, Bashford, and Cooke

6. COMMISSION OF ELEVEN ON CORRELATION
To be Appointed

For personnel and duties, see report Commission on Correlation No. 1.-Journal, 1916.

7. COMMITTEE ON STATISTICAL BLANKS

Edwin R. Graham, Jacob A. Cole, Fred W. Adams, O. S. Baketel, W. B. Hollingshead.

CHAPTER III

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE

¶ 550. Location and Entertainment

Resolved, That the Book Committee and its Commission on Entertainment and the Secretary of the General Conference be directed to cooperate with each other in making such advance provisions for the General Conference of 1920 as will expedite its business; such provisions to be reported to and to be subject to change by the General Conference.―Journal, 1916.

¶ 551. Expenses of Adjourned Session

Resolved, That the Book Committee is hereby authorized and instructed to make an apportionment to the Church sufficient to meet the expense incident to the proposed adjourned meeting of this General Conference. Said apportionment to be made as soon as the certainty of such meeting is determined.-Journal, 1916.

¶ 552. Traveling Expenses of Delegates

Resolved, That the traveling expenses of each delegate to and from the seat of the General Conference shall be paid in the proportion that the number of days of his attendance is to the number of days of the session of the General Conference, the only exception being on account of personal sickness of the delegate, the exceptions to be determined by the Committee on Credentials. Journal, 1916.

¶ 553. Memorials and Resolutions

Resolved, That memorials, resolutions, and requests to be submitted to Standing Committees, may be sent to the Secretary of this General Conference or his Assistant at any time in the month of April, 1920, and shall be arranged by him for immediate distribution to the several Standing Committees.-Journal, 1916.

¶554. Rules of Order of the General Conference

ORGANIZATION

RULE 1. When a General Conference shall have been convened in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, after the Devotional Services, the call of the roll shall be made by the Secretary of the preceding General Conference in the following manner:

(a) The names of the Bishops who have died during the quadrennium, and the names of every delegate-elect who may have died since election.

(b) The names of the General Superintendents followed by the names of the Missionary Bishops:

(c) The roll of members by Conferences. Whenever a Conference is called, the Chairman of the delegation shall report the name of any delegate that is absent. If no absentee is announced, the Secretary shall record all the delegates of that Conference as present. And, if a quorum is present, the Conference shall proceed to organization by the election of a Secretary, by ballot if there be more than one nomination, otherwise by acclamation; and by the election of such Assistant Secretaries, upon nomination of the Secretary, as it may deem necessary.

TIME OF MEETING, RECESS, AND ADJOURNMENT

RULE 2. After the opening session, the General Conference shall meet at 8:30 o'clock, A. M., and adjourn at 12:30 o'clock P. M.; but the General Conference, at its

discretion, may alter the time of meeting and may adjourn and fix the time to which it shall adjourn. A recess of ten minutes shall be taken at 10:30 o'clock, unless otherwise ordered.

THE PRESIDENT

RULE 3. The President shall take the chair precisely at the hour to which the General Conference stood adjourned, and cause the session to be opened by the reading of the Scriptures, singing, and prayer. On the appearance of a quorum he shall have the Journal of the preceding session read and approved, and see that the business of the Conference proceed regularly, according to the Rules of Order, and such other rules and regulations as may be adopted by the General Conference.

RULE 4. The President shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the General Conference. In case of such appeal the question shall be taken without debate, except that the President may state the grounds of his decision, and the appellant may state the grounds of his appeal.

RULE 5. The President shall appoint all committees, unless otherwise especially ordered by the Conference.

RULE 6. On Assigning the floor to a member the President shall distinctly announce the name of the delegate and of the Annual Conference which he represents.

ORDER OF BUSINESS

RULE 7. The regular order of business shall be:

I. DEVOTIONAL SERVICES.

II. READING OF THE JOURNAL of the preceding session, and action thereon.

III. CALL OF CONFERENCES in alphabetical order for the presentation of appeals, resolutions, and miscellaneous business, for immediate passage.

(1) When a proposition has been presented under the Call of Conferences, and before the person who intro

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