ed, 93; increased, 97; appointed, 104;
they report, 132; the address, 172.
Address of Bishop Hedding, copy of, re-
quested, 63.
Advertisements inConference papers, 113.
African Church, St. Louis, 12, 117.
Agents, expenses of, 104; duties of, 113.
Appeals, new evidence inadmissible, 127.
Appeals, Court of, proposed by bishops,

21; decided against, 128.
Appeals, General Conference, Committee
on, proposed, 52; decided against, 128.
Appendix to Law Report, 127.
Arbiters on Church property, proposed,
54; debated, 87, 89; plan adopted, 94.
Arkansas, petitionof local preachers in,116.
Assistant Editorships abolished, 90.
Atkinson, C., appeal of, brought forward,
19; decided, 62, 63.
Auburn Banner, 23.

Augusta circuit, memorial from, 27.

Baltimore, petition from colored people in,
for Annual Conference, introduced, 42;
reported on, 93; decided upon, 130.
Baptism, formula of, 42.

Barger, J. S., claims of, 90.
Benediction, 11, 20.
Bibles, price of, 114.

Bishop Hedding's biography requested,
79; Essay on Pastorship requested,
79; delegate to England, 122.
Bishop Soule, communication from, re-
ceived, 43-45; resolution concerning,
47; letter from, 109; the letter, 134.
Bishops, administrationof,approved, 54,55.
Board of unmarried preachers, 107.
Book Committees at New-York and Cin-
cinnati regulated, 110, 115; Com-
mittee to nominate, 119, 120; election
of, 124, 130; term of office of, 132.
Book Concern, Committee on, ordered,
7; announced, 10; reports of, on
claims, 23, 24; on Canada memorial,
&c., 49; on Editorships, &c., 90;
final report on, 108-115.
Books, prices of, reduction petitioned for,
29; decided, 113.

Bond, Dr. T. E., invitation to, 89; ad-
ditional compensation to, 90; granted
access to records, 108.

Boundaries, Committee on, ordered, 7;
announced, 10; reports of, 42, 70, 97.
British Conference, communication re-
ceived from, 15, 59; committee on,
reported, 79, 85, 90; to be published,
119; reply to, 142.
Brooklyn lawsuit, expenses of, 93, 118.
23

Cape Girardeau circuit, 12, 19.
Carlisle, petition concerning, 11.
Catechism, revisal of, 109, 113.
Centenary Church, St. Louis, 55.
Certificates of membership, when to be
given, 59, 98; how long valid, 126;
holders amenable, 126; located preach-
ers must have, 98, 100.
Charleston, S. C., depository at, 112, 114.
Chartered Fund, Committee on,ordered,8;

announced, 9; reports of, 68, 80, 100.
Christian Advocate and Journal, price
reduced, 38, 109, 112; advertisements
in, 109; Pittsburgh, 100, 114.
Church, division of, illegal, 73; plan for,
void, 77, 93.

Church property, petition to divide, 42;
commissione's on, from the M. E.
Church, South, communication from,
43; reply to, 47.

Churches, seized by the South, 116.
Claims of superannuated preachers, pro-

posal to graduate, 11, 12, 23, 38, 80.
Colleges, prayer for, proposed, 64; sta-
tistics to be collected, 69.

Committees, standing, [see Boundaries.]
Communicants of other churches, 107.
Conference, Annual, (colored,) Com-
mittee on Memorials concerning, 36;
petition for, 42; reports on, 93; de.
cision on, 130.
Conference, bounds of, [see Boundaries;]
new Southern proposed, 93; new
South-western, 29, 39, 121; records, 98.
Conference Funds. [See Claims.]
Correspondence, Committee of, ordered,
15; appointed, 17; reports of, 79, 85,
90; the addresses, 142, 146.
Course of Study for probationers in the
ministry, 64, 133; for local preachers,
Committee to draw up, proposed, 28;
appointed, 36; reports of, 93, 108.

Deed of Settlement, 64.
Delegated Annual Conference, 21, 128.
Delegates, list of, 5; to British Confer.

ence, 122; to Canada Conf., 131, 133.
Discipline, Committee to arrange, 12,
101; to revise, [see Revisal;] propo
sitions to alter, and changes made-
to include preachers "failing in busi-
ness," 10, 106; to try local preachers,
in their absence, 17, 105; to try those
who neglect their work, 17; to ex-
clude the guilty from all Church privi-
leges, 18, 105; to locate the member.
ship of discontinued preachers, 18, 105;
to cause local preachers to hold mem.

18, 105; to exclude the ministry from
the liquor trade, 23, 79; to cause the
Discipline to conform to usage in the
reception of preachers, 23; to make
the time of probation four years, 24,
107; new measure to promote pastoral
visiting, 27, 99; to alter chap. ii, sec.
7, ans. 2, 27, 79; to amend formula of
receiving preachers at conference, 29,
32; to strike out the question (on page
23) concerning supernumeraries, 29;
to pay the board of single preachers,
37, 107; to preserve records of trials,
54; to make the term three years in
each station or circuit, 59; to legalize
pews, and abolish the separation of the
sexes, 60; to change chap. ii, sec. 7,
paragraph 5, 60, 108; to fix time to
elect stewards, 60; to render the lan-
guage of the sixth Restrictive Rule
more definite, 60; to introduce itine-
rancy among adjoining stations, 60;
to locate inefficient preachers, 64; to
collect returns of books sold by travel.
ing preachers, 64; to regulate the
term of office of trustees, 64; to re-
move the two years' restriction from
preachers engaged in Sabbath Unions,
65; to cause probationers to be re-
ported separately, 65, 102; to amend
the regular question concerning bishops,
66, 102; to revise the ritual, 66; to
prevent withdrawals of those under
censure, 66; to amend certificate of
membership, 61, 108; concerning the
trial of preachers, 61; concerning mis-
sion funds, 62; to regulate the em-
ployment of local preachers by presid-
ing elders, 67, 126; Wesley's rule on
spirituous liquors restored, 79; to give
located preachers a certificate, 98; to
harmonize Discipline, 101; to make
the estimating Committee amenable to
the quarterly conference, 102; to regu
late the trial of ministers, 103; proviso
in answer to question 2, page 161 of
Discipline, stricken out, 105; concern-
ing communicants from other church.
es, 107; to regulate the Book Com-
mittees, 115; to amend language of
Discipline concerning "presumption
of guilt," 124; provision for naval sta.
tions, 124; term of office of presiding
elders not restricted to two years, 124;
concerning illegal expulsion, 125; trial
carried up by the preacher, 127; dis.
ciplinary mode of trial not to be de-
parted from, 127; rights of superan-
nuated preachers not resident in their
own Conferences, 128; concerning em-
ployment of colored preachers, 130.

read, and vote of thanks passed, 15;
requested to preach, 27; sermon, 39;
vote of thanks for, 39; questions asked,
47; farewell address, 53.
Ebenezer station, St. Louis, 12, 116.
Editors and Agents elected, 104, 120;

accounts of, 63; expenses of, 104,
112, 120; no extra pay, 112; houses
of, in New-York, 113; salaries of,
119; assistants of, 132.

Education, Committee on, ordered, 8;

announced, 9; report on statistics of
colleges, &c., 69; educational collec-
Elections of Editors, &c., 104, 105, 120.
tion recommended, 70; report, 132.
Elliott, Dr., chosen historian, 131, 132.
Emory, Dr., resolution concerning, 62.
Episcopacy, Committee on, ordered, 7;
announced, 9; report of, on Maffitt's
case, 54, 78; on alledged letter of Bp.
Morris, 55; administration of bishops,
55; claims of bishops, 55.

Estimating Committees amenable to quar.

terly conference, 102.
Evidence, new, in appeals, 127.
Expenses of Delegates, Committee on,
8, 9, 108.

Expulsion, illegal, void, 126.
Ferguson, J., claims of, introduced, 93;
referred to Missionary Society, 120.
Finance, Committee on, ordered, 12;
appointed, 13; reports of, 80, 124.
Fund, Chartered, Committee on, ordered,
8; appointed, 9; reports of, 68, 80, 100.
Funds, proposition to divide, to Southern
supernumeraries, 93; decided, 114.
General Conference, ratio of representa.
Genesee Conference, division of, petitions
tion, 38; next, where, 132.
concerning, 15, 20, 37; action on, 71;
not reconsidered, 97.
German Missions. [See Missions.]
Green, J. C., communication from, 19;
action thereon, 38.

Harvey,Rev. J., resolution relative to, 101,
History of M. E. Church provided for, 54.
Horse keeping, 64, 128.
Hymn-book, Committee on, ordered, 12;
announced, 13; report of, 25, 26;
Committee to nominate Committee of
Revisal, 36; their report, 70.
Itinerancy, Committee on, ordered, 7;
announced, 10, 23; reports of, 41, 48;
Itinerancy in contiguous stations, 99, 100.
final report of, 98.
Jones, S. D., business of, 90.
Journal, General Conference, to be com.
pleted, 132; to be published, 123.

Ladies' Repository, 104, 106.
Law questions preferred by the bishops,
18; Committee on, ordered, 19; an-
nounced, 21; increased, 23; reports
of, 30, 32, 66; final report, 125–129.
Leesburg, memorial from, 67.
Liberia Mission, to lessen expenses of,
131; memorial from, asking repre-
sentation in General Conference, 56;
action on memorial, 91, 92, 97.
Local preachers, right of, to contract, 11;
ordination of, 30; recommended, &c.,
126; colored, (District Conference of,)
30; where amenable, 105; course of
study for, Committee to draw up, or-
dered, 28; announced, 36; report of,
93, 108.
Located preachers, how located, 103;
certificates to be given to, 98, 100;
where amenable, 105.
Lyon, J. C., business of, 90.

Maffitt, J. N., case of, introduced by
Bishop Hedding, 12; course of Bishop
Hedding approved, 54, 55, 78.
Maine Conference, petition to divide, 20;
division of, 71.

Map of Conferences, 43.
Maysville documents, 93, 133.
M'Abee, J. N., business of, 90.
M'Elroy, J., business of, 90.
Members, Church, withdrawal of, 30;
rightsof,73; leaving with certificate, 38;
expelled illegally, 126; Southern, peti.
tions from, 37; not exscinded, 73, 117.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Com-
missioners from. [See Commissioners.]
Mission, Liberia, resolve concerning, 131.
Missions, Committee on, ordered, 7; an.
nounced, 10; report on German books,
33; on Oregon, &c., 39, 69, 121; on
Home Department, 28, 41, 92; on
Wyandott Indians, 68; on Germans
in Ohio and Illinois, 68; on North-
western Indians, Germans in Illinois,
and Liberia Mission Conference, 91;
on Conference Missionary Society for
home missions, 92; on Welsh, Swedes,
&c., 120; on Ferguson case, 120;
provision for new fields, 121.
Missions, how to raise funds for, 29.
Mitchell, J.T., traveling expenses of, 132.
Monthly Magazine, 61.

Mount Zion, memorial from, 15.
Moving expenses of Dr. Bond, 63; of
C. B. Tippett, 49, 50, 132.

New-Mexico included in a Conference,
29, 39, 121.
New-York Conference, division of, pe-
titions for, 14; ordered, 70; when to
take effect determined, 119.

North-western Indians, missions to, 91.
Norwegians, mission to, 53.

Officers of General Conference, election
of, 93, 104, 108, 120.

Ohio Conference, division of, petitions for,
16, 26; ordered, 71, 72; boundaries, 97.
Oneida Conference, division of, petition
for, 14; ordered, 97.

Oregon, Conference to include, 29; An.
nual Conference for, considered, 32,
39, 121.

Osborn, J. W., appeal of, 35; deferred,
42; considered, 52; decided, 57.

Papers, General Conference, proposed, in
quarto, 54.

Pastoral Address, [see Address;] visit-
ing, 27, 99.

Periodical for Sermons of living minis-

ters, resolution of Oneida Conference
on, 20; Michigan Conference on, 30;
declared inexpedient, 112.

Pews in churches, 38.
Pittsburgh, vote of thanks to citizens of,
119, 132; Conference, division of, 56,
72; Christian Advocate, 100, 104.
Plan of Separation, violations of, ordered
to be inquired into, 24; reports on,
116, 164; declared null, 75, 78, 80;
claims of those exscinded by, 116,
Preachers, probation of, four years pro-
posed, 24, 29; determined upon, 107;
reconsidered, 130; colored, memorial
of, 35, 130; withdrawal of, 30, 32, 66;
how may be located, 64, 103; failing
in business, 106; trials of, how con-
ducted, 103, 105, 128; proposed by
Committee, 126.

Presiding elders, districts of, 23; term of
service, 124.

Probationers, how to be reported, 102.
Publication, committee on, 17.
Publication of Rules, Committee on, or.
dered, 8; announced, 9; reported, 36.

Quarterly Review, advertisements in,
103; expenses of, 114; resolutions
concerning, 109, 113.

Question Sixth (Discipline, p. 23) strick.
en out, 103.

Questions of order, 13; of law, preferred
by bishops, 18; presented by others,
37, 43, 57, 61, 64; Committee on, or.
dered, 19; announced, 21; increased,
21, 23; report on withdrawals, 30, 32;
final report, 125-128.

Real estate in N. Y., and Cincinnati, 114.
Records, Conference, how to be kept, 98.
Reed, Mrs. N., donation from, 35.
Release of estates of debtors to the Book
Concern, 50.