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have jurisdiction as follows: The Southern General Conference 

 shall comprehend the States of Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri, 

 and the States and territories lying southerly thereto, and also the 

 republic of Texas, to be known and designated by the title of the 

 "Southern General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 

 in the United States." And the Northern General Conference to 

 comprehend all those States lying North of the States of Virginia, 

 Kentucky, and Missouri, as above, to be known and designated by 

 the title of the " Northern General Conference of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church in the United States." 



4. And, be it further resolved, That as soon as three-fourths of all 

 the members of all the Annual Conferences shall have voted on 

 these resolutions, and shall approve the same, the said Southern and 

 Northern General Conferences shall be deemed as having been con- 

 stituted by such approval, and it shall be competent for the Southern 

 Annual Conferences to elect delegates to said Southern General 

 Conference, to meet in the city of Nashville, Tennessee, on the first 

 of May, 1848, or sooner if a majority of two-thirds of the members 

 of the Annual Conferences comprising that General Conference 

 shall desire the same. 



5. And be it further resolved, as aforesaid, That the book concerns 

 at New York and Cincinnati shall be held and conducted as the 

 property and for the benefit of all the Annual Conferences as here- 

 tofore — the editors and agents to be elected once in four years at the 

 time of the session of the Northern General Conference, and the 

 votes of the Southern General Conference to be cast by delegates of 

 that Conference attending the Northern for that purpose. 



6. And be it further resolved, That our Church organization for 

 foreign missions shall be maintained and conducted jointly between 

 the two General Conferences as one Church, in such manner as 

 shall be agreed upon from time to time between the two great 



" branches of the Church as represented in the said two Confer- 

 ences. 



In December, 1844, the Committee on Division re- 

 ported to the South Carolina Conference as follows : 



The committee to whom was referred the general subject of the 

 difficulties growing out of the action of the late General Conference 

 on the cases of Bishop Andrew and Brother Harding, and, in par- 

 ticular, the report of the select committee on the declaration of the 

 Southern and South-western delegates of the General Conference, as 



