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rent year shall be apportioned to the several congregations compos- 

 ing the circuit fortlrwith — each congregation being notified imme- 

 diately of the amount it is expected to collect. 



5. The stewards shall divide the congregations composing the 

 circuit among themselves, and shall make all necessary efibrts to 

 collect the amounts apportioned to them. 



6. It shall be the duty of the stewards to open subscription books 

 in each congregation to meet the current claims — and shall also 

 cause public collections to be taken up, if they deem it necessary, 

 for the same purpose. 



7. The stewards shall settle icith the preachers quarterly, and to this 

 end the subscriptions shall be taken in quarterly installments. 



8. The Conference collections for the support of our bishops and 

 superannuated preachers, widows and orphans of preachers — and to 

 meet deficiencies in quarterage claims — shall be taken up in each 

 congregation as early in the year as practicable. 



9. The board of district stewards shall be a standing board for 

 four years ; provided, nevertheless, should any vacancy occur in the 

 board, such vacancy shall be supplied by the Quarterly Conference, 

 and the district steward shall be charged with collecting the amount 

 apportioned to the circuit or station where he resides. 



10. The board of district stewards shall be charged with the 

 work of supplying the district parsonage with suitable furniture, and 

 shall be authorized to take up collections in their respective charges 

 for that object. 



11. Each member of this joint board, and more especially the 

 chairman thereof, shall feel it his duty to be active in endeavoring 

 to improve the financial condition of the Church by written corre- 

 spondence, or otherwise, with the stewards and other leading brethren 

 of the several circuits and stations — and by public addresses to the 

 Church at suitable times and occasions. 



12. That the circuit stewards shall make arrangements early in 

 the year, if they deem it necessary, to receive from the congrega- 

 tions assigned to them respectively such provisions as they may be 

 able to give for the support of the preacher's family, which shall be 

 delivered at the parsonage, at market prices, and shall be placed to 

 the credit of the circuit as family expenses. 



Iii 1869, by order of the Conference, this financial 

 plan was subjected to revision, and the committee ap- 

 pointed for that purpose made the following report: 



