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Nevertheless, this rule shall not apply to the children of preachers whose families are provided for
by other means in their circuits respectively.
"The allowance of the superannuated, worn-out, and supernumerary preachers, shall be eighty
dollars annually.
"The annual allowance of the wives of superannuated, worn-out, and supernumerary preachers
shall be eighty dollars.
"The annual allowance of the widows of traveling, superannuated, worn-out, and supernumerary
preachers, shall be eighty dollars.
"The orphans of traveling, superannuated, worn-out, and supernumerary preachers, shall be
allowed by the annual conferences, if possible, by such means as they can devise, sixteen dollars
annually."
There was a plan laid for raising supplies for the above allowances; part of the plan had been in
use before, and part of it was entirely new. What we called The Preachers' Fund, or the preachers'
subscriptions to the fund, which was generally two dollars a year, was to be applied to that purpose:
also, the monies which were accounted for to the annual conferences for marriages. And whatever
surplus of money was in the hands of the stewards, after paying their circuit preachers, all the public
collections which every preacher that had the charge of a circuit was to make, were to be brought to
the conference. A public collection was to be made at every annual conference; which, together with
the profits arising from the chartered fund, &c was to be applied for the purpose of making up the
allowances of the preachers, their wives, widows and children.
The conference then gave the following directions for building or renting dwelling-houses for the
use of married traveling preachers:
1."It is recommended by the general conference, to the traveling preachers, to advise our friends
in general to purchase a lot of ground in each circuit, and to build a preacher's house thereon, and
to furnish it with at least heavy furniture; and to settle the same on trustees appointed by the official
members of the quarterly-meeting, according to the deed of settlement published in our Form of
Discipline.
2. "The general conference recommend to the country circuits, in cases where they are not able
to comply with the above request, to rent a house for the married preacher and his family, (when such
are stationed upon their circuits respectively) and that the annual conference do assist to make up the
rents of such houses as far as they can, when the circuit cannot do it."
The conference elected Lemuel Green, and Henry Foxall, trustees of the chartered fund, in the
room of John Dickins, deceased, and Cornelius Comegys, resigned.
There was a small alteration made in the rule for trying our members, and the private members
in future were to judge whether the accused person was guilty or not, of the crime charged upon him;