NINTH DAY.

Afternoon.

Ayes.-Akers, Allen, Armstrong of Black River, May 11. Armstrong of Cincinnati, Arnold, Baker, Bangs, Barnhart, Barrows, Beale, Benson, Bingham, Blades, Blanchard, Bland, Bowen, Bowman, Brooks, Brown of Providence, Brown of Troy, Bruce of Black River, Brunson, Brush, Burdick, Butler, Carlton, Caruthers, Cartwright, Carrow, Castle, Chaffee, Clarke of Erie, Clark of New England, Clark of New Hampshire, Clarke of Wyoming, Cobb, Cocker, Cogshall, Colby, Corrington, Corse, Crane, Crary, Crawford, Crever, Cumming, Cunningham, Daugherty, Davis, Day, De La Matyr, Dempsey, Donelson, Dosh, Dudgeon, Durbin, Dyer, Eaton of Southern Illinois, Eaton of Vermont, Eddy, Elliott, Endsley, Erwin, Fallows, Ferguson, Fiegenbaum, Fisher, Fullerton, Giddings, Godman, Goode, Goss, Graham, Graves, Gray, Greer, Hall, Haney, Harris, Hartshorn, Hascall, Haven of Detroit, Haven of New England, Heisler, Helmershausen, Hester, Hill, Hines, Hitchcock, Holliday, Holmes of Iowa, Holmes of Upper Iowa, Hopkins, Hudson of East Genesee, Hudson of Pittsburgh, Hulburd, Hunter, Huntingdon, Hurlburt, Jasper, Jervis, Jocelyn, Kendall, Kennedy, Kiger, King, Krehbiel, Kuhl, Kynett, Lamont, Larew, Leaton, Lindsay, Locke, Lowe, Lowry, Luce, Lyda, M'Clintock, M'Intyre, Mahin, Maltby, Martin (Alexander), Martin (Gideon), Mather, Mead, Medsker, Meginnis, Merrill, Miller of Pittsburgh, Miller of Wisconsin, Mitchell of Des Moines, Mitchell of East Baltimore, Mitchell of Kansas, Moore, Morrell, Morrison, Mulfinger, Munger, Nast, Nelson, Nesbit, Olin, Osbon, Owens, Paddock, Pattison, Peate, Peck of Troy, Peck of Wyoming, Pershing, Phelps, Pike, Pilsbury of New York East, Pillsbury of Wisconsin, Porter of Newark, Porter of Ohio, Power, Queal, Rawlins, Reddy, Reid of East Genesee, Reed of Northwest Indiana, Reed of Upper Iowa, Rhodes, Ritchie, Robinson, Ross, Rothweiler, Rutledge, Schuler, Shreck, Shumate, Sinith of Philadelphia, Spahr, Spottswood, Steele, Stokes, Swahlen, Talbot, Taylor, Thayer, Torsey, Trimble, Vancleve, Vernon, Wakeley, Walden, Waring, Wells, Wheeler, Wiley, Williams, Wise, Wood, Woodruff, Wright-197.

May 11. NINTH DAY.

Afternoon.

Fourth resolution adopted,

Noes.-Baume, Blake, Brown of New York, Curry, Dobbins, Edwards, Ferris, Foster, France, Lanahan, M'Combs, Murphy, Porter of New England, Sherman, Slicer-15.

Absent.-Bannister, Bruce of Kentucky, Cooper, Dillon, French, Fuller, Gillam, Harrison, Hibbard, Hobart, Hunt, Ives, Kidder, Pease, Ray, Smith of Northwest Indiana, Vansant, Wentworth of Genesee, Young-19.

Total.-Ayes, 197; Noes, 15; Absent, 19.

So the resolution was adopted, one hundred and ninety-seven voting in favor of it, and fifteen against it.

The fourth resolution was then read. A motion to lay the resolution on the table was lost, and J. W. Lindsay then moved that it be indefinitely postponed ; but the motion to postpone was, on motion of G. D. Carrow, laid on the table.

L. C. Queal moved that the Secretaries of the Conference be substituted for the committee of seven, called for in the resolution; when, on motion of I. C. Pershing, this motion was laid on the table.

The fourth resolution was then adopted, and the and the resolu- resolutions as a whole were adopted as follows,

tions adopted

as a whole.

Resolutions of

namely:

Resolved, 1. That all action of the General Conference of 1864, reW. L. Harris. stricting or purporting to restrict the rights and privileges of the Annual Conferences which the Bishops were authorized by the said General Conference to form within the United States and Territories, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Resolved, 2. That the following Conferences, namely, Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Holston, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and North Carolina, and Washington, are hereby declared to be Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and vested with all the rights, privileges, and immunities usual to Annual Conferences of said Church.

Resolved, 3. That the Provisional Delegates to this body, elected by the aforesaid Conferences severally, are hereby admitted to membership in this General Conference on the presentation of the requisite credentials.

Resolved, 4. That a committee of seven be appointed to which shall be referred the credentials of the said Provisional Delegates, together with so much of the Journals of the said Conferences as relates to their election, and that the Committee report at the earliest practicable moment.

On motion of A. S. Graves, it was ordered that absent members have leave to record their votes on the third resolution.

The Chair announced the following special committees, namely:

May 11.

NINTH DAY.

Afternoon.

Committees announced.

1. On Correspondence.-A. Martin, J. W. Arm- Special strong, W. Butler, G. M. Steele, G. B. Jocelyn, Philip Kuhl, W. R. Davis, K. P. Jervis, John S. Heisler.

2. On Benevolent Collections.-B. N. Spahr, R. Nelson, Robert H. Pattison, H. Ritchie, L. C. Queal, S. H. Beale, G. Martin, S. Fallows, J. W. Ross.

3. On Chaplaincies in the Army and Navy.-W. R. Clark, T. Mitchell, I. C. Pershing, C. Larew, M. Mahin.

4. On Chartered Fund.-W. G. Miller, W. Reddy, W. D. Godman, W. M'Combs, J. Hascall.

On motion, Conference adjourned. The Doxology was sung, after which Thomas H. Pearne pronounced the Benediction.

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 12.

Conference met this morning, Bishop Thomson in the chair.

The religious services were conducted by Aaron Wood, of the Northwest Indiana Conference.

The Journal of yesterday, for both morning and afternoon, was read and approved.

May 12.
TENTH DAY.

his vote.

On motion of F. C. Holliday, James Baume had Baume changes leave to change his vote given yesterday on the call of the ayes and noes, in voting on the third resolution respecting the admission of delegates from the Mission Conferences; whereupon his name being called by the Secretary, he changed his vote from no to aye on the motion to adopt the said resolution. The names of the following members, absent when the vote was taken yesterday, were called, and they voted on the same motion, as follows: Bannister aye, Bruce of Ken- Absentees vote. tucky aye, Cooper aye, Dillon aye, French aye, Harrison aye, Hibbard aye, Hobart aye, Hunt aye, Ives aye, Pease aye, Ray aye, Smith of Northwest Indiana aye, Young aye, thus adding fifteen votes in favor of the resolution to those given yesterday, and reducing the vote against it to fourteen, thus adopting the res olution by a vote of two hundred and twelve in favor

May 12.
TENTH DAY.

Committee on

credentials of

to fourteen against it. The following members were absent or did not vote, namely: Fuller, Gillam, Kidder, Vansant, and Wentworth of Genesee.

A paper on the American and Foreign Christian Union was presented, and referred to the Committee on that subject.

Bishop Clark announced the following Committee on delegates from the Credentials of the Provisional Delegates elected by ferences. the Mission Conferences, as provided in the fourth resolution on that subject, adopted yesterday, namely:

Mission Con

Cont, rences called for mis

iness.

George Peck, T. M. Eddy, J. W. Lindsay, H. R. Clarke, J. B. Corrington, M. J. Talbot, and B. H. Crever.

On motion, the Committee thus announced had leave to retire.

On motion, the rules were suspended in order that cellaneous bus- the Conferences might be called for the presentation of miscellaneous business. The roll of Conferences was called, and business was introduced and disposed of as follows, namely:

BALTIMORE

Sale of Church property.

Appeal of J.
Thrush.

BLACK RIVER.

BALTIMORE CONFERENCE.

On motion of John Lanahan, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely:

Resolved. That the Committee on Revisals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the Discipline, (Part VI, chap. iii, sec. 3, ans. 4,) which reads, "a majority of all the members of such Quarterly Conference concurring, and the Annual Conference consenting," so as to read as follows: "a majority of all the members of such Quarterly Conference concurring, and the Annual Conference consenting, or in the interim of an Annual Conference the Presiding Bishop of said Conference."

Also on further motion of John Lanahan, the following resolution was adopted, namely:

Resolved, That the appeal of John Thrush, formerly of the Baltimore Conference, now of the Northwest Indiana Conference, be referred to the Court of Appeals.

BLACK RIVER CONFERENCE.

On motion of A. E. Corse, the following preamble and resolution was referred to the Committee on Boundaries, namely:

Whereas, There is now in many instances great obscurity in the boundary lines of Annual Conferences as given in the Discipline; therefore,

Resolved, That the Committee on Boundaries be instructed to take this whole subject under consideration, and so revise the record of boundary lines that the boundary of each Conference shall be distinct and intelligible in the forthcoming Discipline.

On motion of A. J. Phelps, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on the Book Concern, namely:

May 12. TENTH DAY. Boundaries.

Resolved, That the Committee on the Book Concern be instructed Depository to inquire into the expediency of establishing a Depository of our Syracuse. books at Syracuse, New York.

On motion of E. C. Bruce, the following resolution

was adopted, namely:

at

Resolved, That so much of the Episcopal Address as relates to Supernumerary supernumerary preachers be referred to the Committee on Itinerancy.

On motion of J. W. Armstrong, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely:

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be requested to consider whether or not any plan can be devised by which the examinations of the preachers in the course of study can be had on the several Presiding Elders' Districts instead of at Conference.

I. S. Bingham offered the following resolution, and, on motion, it was referred to the Committee on Missions, namely:

Resolved, That a committee of seven, to consist of preachers and laymen, be ordered, to be appointed by the Chair, who, with the concurrence of the Board of Bishops, shall have full powers in the premises, whose duty it shall be to make provision for a suitable celebration of the semi-centennial of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church at some time during the year 1869.

CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE.

On motion of A. Bland, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely:

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be instructed to take into consideration the propriety of changing the Discipline on page 83, Part II, chap. ii, sec. 12, so that "and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South," may be added to the first question, and also to the answer to that question; and so that the second question and its answer may be stricken out, that we may receive ministers from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, upon the same conditions upon which we receive ministers from other Methodist bodies.

preachers.