the same compensation as is made to effective ministers; and their widows and orphans shall be entitled to the same allowance as is made to those of ministers and preachers who die in the itinerancy.

6. Ministers or preachers, not under the sta tioning authority of the annual conference of their district, who may be employed by an annual conference or its president, for any definite period, shall be allowed the same rate of compensation for the time of service, as is allowed to itinerant ministers or preachers.

It is recommended that each annual conference, at its first session, institute and organize a benevolent society, having for its object the relief and support of superannuated itinerant ministers, and the widows and orphans of those ministers and preachers who shall have died in the service of the conference.

It is also recommended, that our friends, male and female, in every circuit and station, raise Preachers' Aid Societies, for the purpose of assisting to make up the deficiencies of quarterage allowed by discipline, to ministers and preachers their wives, widows, and children.

GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR THE PUBLICATION OF BOOKS, TRACTS, &c.

The following named persons shall constitute the Book Committee: James R. Williams, Samuel K. Jennings, John Chappell, John. Clark, Francis Waters, Luther J. Cox, Philip S. Chappell, Beale H. Richardson, and the Superintendents of Baltimore City and East Baltimore stations.

The Committee shall have power to fill all vacancies in their own Board; subject, however, to the approval of the annual conference under whose supervision it immediately acts.

The Committee shall have full powers to employ and remove an agent or agents, as it may deem best, and to conduct the business with promptness and vigor, under such rules and regulations as shall hold it in strict responsibility to the annual conference of the district in which it may be located, as.also to the general conference.

The Book Committee shall make an exhibit to the annual conference at each of its sessions, showing the true state and condition of the business; and a full and particular account of all matters and things connected with this church concern shall be submitted to the next general conference.

After the year 1842, it shall be the duty of the Committee to make dividends from the profits arising out of the business, to the respective annual conferences, in proportion to the amount of actual capital invested by the respective conference districts.

The Book Committee may place at the disposal of the respective annual conference stewards, such books as they order, and for the payment of which their respective conferences become responsible.

When a conference steward is not re-elected, he shall make a full statement of all the books sold and those remaining in his district; and make a transfer to his successor, of all the books and accounts left with the preachers in the district, the amount of which shall go to his credit, and pass to the debit of his successor.

It shall be the duty of all the conference stewards, having accounts open with the Book Committee, to pay over to them or their agent, annually, or oftener, all the moneys in their hands, or which may be due from them, rendering at the same time an account of all the books remaining in their district unsold; and it shall be the duty of the preachers, in stations or circuits, having accounts with the conference steward, to make settlement and render payment in a similar way. When a preacher leaves his station or circuit, he must settle with the conference steward for all the books he has disposed of, and make out an inventory of all that remain unsold, which shall be collected at one place: the amount shall go to his credit, and be transferred to his successor, who shall take charge of the same, provided the conference steward consent to the transfer.

Every annual conference shall appoint a committee to examine the accounts of the conference stewards and preachers, in their respective

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stations and circuits. If any preacher or member be indebted for books or for the Methodist Protestant and Family Visitor, and refuse to make payment, or come to a just settlement, let him be dealt with as for a breach of trust, and such measures be adopted for the recovery of such debts as shall be agreeable to the directions of the annual conferences respectively.

Resolved, That the several annual conferences be, and they are hereby most earnestly requested to adopt such measures as in their wisdom they may deem most proper, for the purpose of creating additional funds, to aid in the establishment of a book concern by the ensuing general conference.

GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR THE PUBLICATION OF A WEEKLY PAPER.

1. There shall be a new weekly journal, of folio form, and not less than imperial size, to be entitled, The Methodist Protestant and Family Visitor, to be edited and published in the city of Baltimore; the nett proceeds of which shall be invested for the purpose of raising a fund to create a book concern.

2. The paper shall contain a condensed, and, as far as possible, a complete view of foreign and domestic intelligence; abstracts of Congressional proceedings; a collection of miscellaneous, useful, and entertaining facts; occasional notices of literature and science; agricultural reports; markets, &c. &c.: thus superseding the necessity of other weekly

family journals. The original matter shall be made as ample as practicable, to consist chiefly of religious information. Accurate reports may and should be given of the public proceedings of Christian societies; but special attention shall be given to bringing together facts which relate more immediately to the interests of the Methodist Protestant Church. If the Committee shall find it advisable, they may insert' advertisements of an unexceptionable character, to an extent not injurious to the general design, as above stated. They will be expected, also, to publish annually the number of subscribers to the paper in each annual conference.

3. The Editor of the Methodist Protestant shall be elected by the general conference. The Book Committee shall prescribe his duties, fix his compensation, continue him in his office, or remove him from it, as the Committee may deem to be best, in view of the interests of the church. The Committee shall be accountable to the annual conference of the Maryland District, for all its acts and doings, regarding the paper; and for malconduct, either official or moral, may be removed from office by the conference.

4. The Committee, on settling with the Editor of the paper, may, if they deem it necessary, appropriate any money in hand, arising from the sale of books, to make up the requisite amount.

5. In the event of the death, resignation, or removal of the Editor, the subscription list

d all books, manuscripts, and accounts, be