of Finance a full account of the acts of the Board of Stewards the preceding year. The Joint Board shall decide all issues that may exist between the stewards and, the Presiding Elder, or any of the preachers, in relation to salaries, and their decision shall be final; but in no case shall they allow any preacher to have a claim on the Church ne has served, as of debt, after his pastoral connection has ceased.

(7) Each Annual Conference shall adopt its own method of raising money to pay those who, by the rules and usages of the Church, have claims upon it: provided, that it does not interfere with the rights guaranteed to the Church Conferences, to adopt their own methods of raising money to pay their liabilities.

CHAPTER XI.

SUPPORT OF MISSIONS.

SECTION I.

BOARD OF MISSIONS.

165. The missionary operations of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, shall hereafter be conducted under the following provisions and regulations:

ARTICLE I. There shall be a Board of Missions, which shall have charge of the Foreign Missions, and of all others not provided for by the Annual Conferences.

ART. II. Said Board shall consist of a President, Vice-president, Secretary, Treasurer, and twenty-five managers, to be elected quadrennially by the General Conference, as follows (con

tinuing in office until their successors are appointed): the President, Vicepresident, and managers on nomination of the Committee on Missions, the Secretary and the Treasurer by ballot, at the time of the election of other Connectional officers. The Bishops shall be ex officio members of the Board.

ART. III. The Board shall have authority to regulate its own proceedings; to appropriate money to defray incidental expenses; to provide for the support of superannuated missionaries, and widows and orphans of missionaries, who may not be provided for by any Annual Conference; to print books for the Indian, German, Mexican, and other Foreign Missions; to build houses for worship, for hospitals, for schools, and for missionaries; and to defray the necessary expenses of the

work under its care; to aid in the establishment and support of trainingschools for native converts and preachers, and to cooperate with other Methodist bodies in the establishment and support of such schools wherever it may be practicable in foreign fields. It shall also publish annually a statement of its transactions, naming the missions supported by it, and the amount appropriated and paid to each, and lay before the General Conference a report of its operations.

ART. IV. The Board shall meet annually to determine what fields shall be occupied as missions, the number of persons to be employed in each, and to estimate the amount that may be necessary for the support of the mis sions under its charge, and to divide the same among the several Annual Conferences having reference in said

division to the extent and importance of the home work in each Conference, and to the ability and disposition of the people to give.

ART. V. The Board shall employ only effective men for its work, and shall require each one to make a quarterly report to the Secretary of his operations, and of the state and pros pects of the work in his charge.

ART. VI. The revenue of the Board shall be derived from annual collections in every congregation; and from such other plans as may be adopted by the Church and congregation, by the Sunday-school, and by such societies as may be formed by the women of the Church, to raise money for this object; and from special collections by the Secretary and the Bishops; and from donations and legacies.

ART. VII. The Secretary shall be a