follows: Paragraph 2. All Trustees shall be elected by the Quarterly Conference of the circuit or station upon the nomination of the Preacher in charge or the Presiding Elder of the District; and all Trustees shall hold their office until their successors are elected. Paragraph 3. In all cases such appointments shall be made in conformity with the laws of the several States and Territories, and all these provisions shall apply both to the creation of new Boards and the filling of vacancies, whether for houses of worship or dwellings for the preachers.

A. J. Lyda submitted the following preamble and resolution, which were referred to the Committee on Episcopacy, namely:

Whereas, The health of two of our General Superintendents has been greatly impaired, thus to a great extent disqualifying them for the episcopal work; therefore,

May 9.

EIGHTH Day.

Resolved, That the Committee on Episcopacy be instructed to in- Additional Bishquire into the expediency of electing two additional Bishops to the present Board.

ops.

WYOMING CONFERENCE.

On motion of H. R. Clarke, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely:

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be instructed to inquire into the propriety of omitting all reference to the manipulation of

the elements of bread and wine in the order for the administration of the Lord's Supper in Part IV, chap. iii, page 156.

On motion of R. H. Clarke, the following resolution was adopted, namely:

WYOMING.

Manupulation of the elements

used in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

lections.

Resolved, That a special committee of nine be appointed to take Benevolent Colinto consideration the subject of the general benevolent collections of the Church, and to report a plan by which their number may be reduced, and a more uniform and systematic support given to the causes they promote.

ROCK RIVER CONFERENCE.

ROCK RIVER.

Institute.

Daniel P. Kidder presented the report of the Garrett Garrett Biblical Biblical Institute, together with a Manual of Information respecting the same, and they were referred to the Committee on Education. And, on his motion, so much of the Address of Bishop Janes as relates to such schools was referred to the same Committee.

[For Report, see Appendix U, II.]

rials, etc.

The roll of Conferences was then called for the Call for memopresentation of petitions, memorials, and appeals, and they were presented and referred, as follows:

May 9.

EIGHTH DAY. BALTIMORE.

Lay Representation.

BALTIMORE CONFERENCE.

J. Lanahan submitted the action of the Conference on Lay Representation, and also its action respecting a Book Depository in Baltimore, and they were appropriately referred.

BLACK RIVER.

Boundaries.

Lay Representation.

BLACK RIVER CONFERENCE.

Albert E. Corse presented the action of the Conference respecting a division of the same, and it was referred to the Committee on Boundaries.

A. J. Phelps presented the action of the Conference on Lay Representation, and it was referred to the Committee on Lay Representation."

CENTRAL GER-
MAN.

Lay Represen-
tation.

Episcopal dis

tricts.

CENTRAL GERMAN CONFERENCE.

W. Nast presented two memorials on Lay Representation one from Madison, Indiana, signed by E. Kempe and eleven others, and one from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, signed by Rev. C. Stellner and thirteen others, and they were referred to the Committee on Lay Representation.

J. Rothweiler presented a memorial from the North Ohio German District Association respecting episcopal districts, and it was referred to the Committee on Itinerancy. He also presented a petition in favor of Lay Represen- Lay Representation from Delaware, Ohio, signed by F. Graff and one other, and it was referred to the Committee on Lay Representation.

tation.

Episcopacy.

J. Krehbiel presented a petition from Indianapolis in favor of Lay Representation, signed by P. Goth and nineteen others, and it was referred to the Committee on Lay Representation. He also presented a memorial from the South District of the Mission Conference of Germany and Switzerland, and it was referred to the Committee on Episcopacy; also, the action of the Conference on Church property, and it was referred to the Committee on Revisals; and also a memorial from the Cincinnati German District Association, and it was referred to the Committee on the Book Concern.

CENTRAL ILLINOIS CONFERENCE.

May 9. EIGHTH DAY.

CENTRAL ILLI

NOIS.

tation.

R. Haney presented a memorial against Lay Repre- Lay Represensentation from Kewanee Station, signed by John B. Shriver and thirty-two others, and it was referred to the Committee on Lay Representation.

CENTRAL OHIO CONFERENCE.

CENTRAL OHIO.

tation.

W. G. Williams presented a memorial in favor of Lay RepresenLay Representation signed by Lewis Barnes and one hundred and twenty-four others of Delaware, Ohio, and it was referred to the Committee on Lay Representation.

W. J. Wells presented four memorials in favor of Lay Representation: one from Findlay, Ohio, signed by C. A. Croninger and sixty-four others; one from Fostoria, signed by R. C. Caples and forty-four others; one from Arcadia Circuit, signed by Abraham Grable and ten others; and one from Marysville, signed by Andrew Keyes and one hundred and seventeen others, and they were referred to the Committee on Lay Representation.

CINCINNATI CONFERENCE.

CINCINNATI.

tation.

J. M. Walden presented resolutions in favor of Lay Lay RepresenRepresentation from the Monthly Conference of Cincinnati, and they were referred to the Committee on Lay Representation. He also presented the report of the Freedmen's Aid Society, and it was referred to Freedmen. the Committee on Freedmen.

tation.

William Young presented a petition from Troy in Lay Represenfavor of Lay Representation, signed by W. D. Hays and S. T. Counts and others, and they were appropriately referred.

A. Lowry presented a petition in favor of Lay Representation from Grace Church, Dayton, signed by J. D. Loomis and seven others of the official board, and claiming to represent the whole male membership as in favor of Lay Representation, and it was referred to the Committee on that subject.

DETROIT CONFERENCE.

J. M. Arnold presented a petition from the Central Church, Detroit, in favor of Lay Representation, signed by James Fenton and thirty-four others, and it was referred to the Committee on Lay Representation.

EAST BALTIMORE CONFERENCE.

Henry Slicer presented the action of the Conference respecting a Book Depository in Baltimore, and it was referred to the Committee on the Book Concern.

Thomas Barnhart presented the action of the Conference respecting the American and Foreign Christian Union, and also the action of the Conference proposing a change of the General Rule on Temperance, and the papers were appropriately referred.

EAST GENESEE CONFERENCE.

J. W. Lindsay presented a memorial from Newark, signed by D. D. Buck and eleven others, in favor of Lay Representation. K. P. Jervis presented a memorial on the same subject from Jasper, signed by S. Countryman and twenty-six others; and T. B, Hudson presented a memorial from the Troy District Preachers and Laymen's Association on the subject of Boundaries, and they were appropriately referred.

EASTERN GER

MAN.

Book Agency.

EASTERN GERMAN CONFERENCE.

J. Swahlen presented the action of the Conference concerning the Book Agency, and also a memorial from Port Mission, and they were referred to the Committee on the Book Concern.

ERIE.

Lay Representation.

ERIE CONFERENCE.

J. Peate presented a memorial on Lay Representation from Gustavus, signed by A. Barris and twentytwo others. G. W. Clark presented a memorial on the same subject from Forestville, signed by C. M.

Hurd and eighteen others; and R. H. Hurlburt presented a memorial on Boundaries, signed by D. A. Crowel and twenty-three others, and they were appropriately referred.

May 9. EIGHTH DAY. Boundaries.

tation.

G. De La Matyr presented the action of the Confer- Lay Represenence on Lay Representation, and it was referred to the Committee on that subject.

ILLINOIS CONFERENCE.

ILLINOIS.

tation.

J. H. Moore presented a memorial in favor of Lay Lay RepresenRepresentation from Irving Circuit, signed by J. M. Berry and twelve others; J. Leaton presented the vote on Lay Representation at Waverly, thirty-two in favor of it and ten against it; also a memorial from Mount Pleasant, signed by E. L. Waller and eighteen others; one from Lynnville Circuit, signed by George G. Byrd and twenty-eight others; one from University Charge, Bloomington, signed by O. T. Reeves and thirty-one others; one from Clayton, signed by Q. Burgesser and fifty-three others; also the resolution. of the Quarterly Conference of the First Church, Springfield, on the same subject, and they were referred to the Committee on Lay Representation. J. Leaton also presented a resolution on District Confer- District Conferences from the Mattoon District, and it was referred to the Committee on Itinerancy.

ences.

tation.

W. J. Rutledge presented a petition on Lay Repre- Lay Represensentation from Vermont-street Station, Quincy, signed by J. Burns, Jr., and twenty-five others; also the unanimous vote of the Leaders' Meeting of the same charge on the same subject, and they were referred to the Committee on Lay Representation.

from Mission Conferences | taken up.

At this stage of the proceedings D. Curry moved to Representation suspend the Rules for the purpose of taking up the substitute offered by W. Reddy. After a motion by G. B. Jocelyn to lay the motion to suspend the Rules on the table was lost, the Rules were suspended, and Conference resumed the consideration of the question of