5. It shall be the duty of the said committee, or one appointed for that purpose, who shall be members of our Church, to make an estimate of the amount necessary to furnish fuel and table expenses for the family or families of preachers stationed with them, and the stewards shall provide, by such means as they may devise, to meet such expenses, in money or otherwise : Provided the stewards shall not appropriate the moneys collected for the regular quarterly allowance of the preachers, to the payment of family expenses.

6. There shall be a meeting in every district, of one steward from each station and circuit, to be selected from among the stewards by the quarterly meeting conference, whose duty it shall be, by and with the advice of the presiding elder, (who shall preside in such meeting) to take into consideration the general state of the district in regard to temporalities, and to furnish a house, fuel, and table expenses for the presiding elder.

7. The Book Agents and the book committee in New-York, shall be a committee to estimate the amount necessary to meet the family expences of the bishops, which shall be annually paid by the book agents out of the funds of the book concern.

8. It shall be the duty of each annual conference where missionaries are to be employed, to appoint a committee whose duty it shall be, in conjunction with the president of the conference, to determine on the amount which may be necessary for the support of each missionary (agreeably to the regulations of the discipline) from year to year, for which amount the president of the conference for the time shall have authority to draw on the treasurer of the society in quarterly instalments in behalf of the missions.

SECTION VI.

Of the Chartered Fund.

Quest. What further provision shall be made for the distressed travelling preachers, for the families of travelling preachers, and for the superannuated and worn out preachers, and the widows and orphans of preachers?

Answ. There shall be a chartered fund, to be supported by the voluntary contributions of our friends; the principal stock of which shall be funded under the direction of trustees, chosen by the general conference, and the interest applied under the

direction of the general conference, according to the following regulations, viz.

1. The elders and those who have the oversight of circuits, shall be collectors and receivers of subscriptions, &c. for this fund.

2. The money shall, if possible, be conveyed by bills of exchange, or otherwise, through the means of the post, to the general book-steward, who shall pay it to the trustees of the fund: otherwise it shall be brought to the ensuing annual conference.

3. The interest shall be divided into seventeen parts, and each of the annual conferences shall have authority to draw one seventeenth part out of the fund; and if in one or more conferences, a part less than one seventeenth be drawn out of the fund in any given year, then in such case or cases, the other annual conferences, held in the same year, shall have authority, if they judge it necessary, to draw out of the fund, such surplus of the interest, which has not been applied by the former conferences: and the bishops shall bring the necessary information of the state of the interest of the fund, respecting the year in question, from conference to conference.

be made on the president of the said fund, by order of the annual conference, signed by the president, and countersigned by the secretary of the said conference.

5. The money subscribed for the chartered fund, may be lodged on proper securities, in the states respectively in which it has been subscribed, under the direction of deputies living in such states respectively: Provided, such securities and such deputies be proposed, as shall be approved of by the trustees in Philadelphia; and the stock in which it is proposed to lodge the money, be sufficiently productive to give satisfaction to the trustees.

SECTION VII.

Of the Printing and Circulation of books, and of the profits arising therefrom. 1. The book business shall be carried on in the City of New-York.

There shall be one editor and generalbook-steward, and an assistant to act under his direction, both of whom shall be chosen from among the travelling preachers, and by virtue of their appointment shall be members of the New-York annual conference, to whom, in the interval of the general conference, they shall be responsible

for their conduct in the book business.And the New-York conference, in the interval of the general conference, shall have power, if they deem it necessary, by and with the advice and consent of the Bishops and book committee, to remove either of them; and in case of removal, death or resignation, to appoint a successor to act until the next ensuing general conference.

'The editor and general-book-steward shall have authority to regulate the publications, and all other parts of the business as the state of the finances will admit, and the demands may require.

It shall be his duty to inform the annual conferences, if any of the preachers or private members of the society neglect to make due payment.

He shall publish such books and tracts as are recommended by the general conference, and such as may be approved and recommended by an annual conference; and he may reprint any book or tract which has once been approved and published by us, when in his judgment, and in the judgment of the book committee, the same ought to be reprinted: or he may publish any new work not before published by us, which shall be approved