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ing of the first day of the session of Conference, and at the place of 

 its session. 



4. The board shall make an annual exhibit, both to the society 

 and to the Conference, of the full amount of its funds; in what they 

 are invested and on what securities; and of the amount of interest 

 and of donations or legacies obtained during the year. 



5. The board shall present annually to the society and to the 

 Conference a list of the children who shall have been assisted, and 

 the sums granted for each child during the year, and shall cause the 

 same to be published previously to the adjournment of the Conference. 



The Fund of Special Relief. 

 ( 'ONSTITUTIOX. 



Whereas there are a number of widows and orphans, both of itin- 

 erant and local ministers, in very indigent circumstances ; and among 

 both these classes of ministers there do also often occur cases of 

 pressing pecuniary need ; and whereas there has been no provision 

 made by the General Conference for the relief of such cases; now, 

 therefore, it has seemed advisable to the South Carolina Conference, 

 with the advice of the venerable Bishop Asbury, to institute, and it 

 does hereby institute, a trust for that special purpose, under the reg- 

 ulations following, to wit: 



1. The Conference shall elect seven of its members for this trust, 

 who shall be designated by the title of the Board of Trustees of the 

 Fund of Special Belief ; and as often as there shall occur a vacancy 

 in the board, by death, resignation, or otherwise, such vacancy shall 

 be filled by the Conference, so as to keep up the number of seven 

 trustees perpetually. 



2. The Board of Trustees shall have authorityto receive contri- 

 butions of any kind for this trust, and to invest, under full security, 

 on interest whatever they receive. 



3. The board shall not appropriate any thing from this fund till 

 it shall have amounted to a sum yielding an interest of one hundred 

 dollars or more annually. It shall then be its duty to call for infor- 

 mation in the Conference yearly concerning the most necessitous 

 widows and orphans of either traveling or local preachers within 

 the Conference district; and such preachers, of either class, as shall 

 have fallen into circumstances calling specially for relief, as by sick- 

 ness, loss of crops, burning of houses, arrest for debt, and such like ; 

 and according to the interest of the fund, excepting two per cent, to 

 increase the caphal, smh cases shall be relieved. The board may 



