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under four years " was stricken out, and the bishops 

 mentioned by name as standing on the same footing 

 with other traveling preachers. The clauses 1, 2, 4, 

 and 5 (1800), were thrown into two, as follows: 



1. The annual allowance of the married traveling, supernumer- 

 ary, and superannuated preachers, and the bishops, shall be two 

 hundred dollars and their traveling expenses. 



2. The annual allowance of the unmarried traveling, supernu- 

 merary, and superannuated preachers, and bishops, shall be one 

 hundred dollars and their traveling expenses. 



South Carolina Conference Institutions. 

 The Minutes of 1831 say: 



Much has been said of late respecting the support of the itiner- 

 ant ministers. Some have seemed to be alarmed at their " Funds," 

 and with as little information as brotherly kindness have labored to 

 expose them to the world as a set of mercenary men. Others better 

 informed, and whose feelings were as kind as their information was 

 accurate, have both vindicated their character and proved that there 

 was need of " Funds " to secure them, in many cases, from extreme 

 distress. Without argument on the subject either way in the pres- 

 ent place, we submit the constitutions of the several societies and 

 trusts instituted by the South. Carolina Conference. On any subject 

 facts form the best ground of appeal ; and by reference to these it 

 may be seen that, for the support of itinerant ministers regularly in 

 the work, we ask no more, and would have no more, than the 

 amounts stipulated by the Discipline, viz.: To each preacher, one 

 hundred dollars; to each wife of a preacher, one hundred dollars; 

 to each child over seven and under fourteen years old, twenty-four 

 dollars; to each child under seven years old, sixteen dollars. And 

 where there is a family, such an additional allowance for table ex- 

 penses and fuel as may be judged necessary by a committee of the 

 Quarterly Conference (not ministers) of the circuit or station where 

 the minister belongs. 



This last-mentioned allowance has not been extended to the su- 

 perannuated or worn-out preachers and their families. And when 

 it is considered that they have worn out their strength in the service 

 of the Church, under circumstances utterlv forbidding of their la3 r - 



