APPENDIX. 



THE BOUNDARY OF THE SOUTH CAKOLINA 

 CONFERENCE. 



IN the Discipline of 1792 the Annual Conferences are called " Dis- 

 trict Conferences," there being then one held for every presid- 

 ing elder's district. But the term was never afterward thus em- 

 ployed, though it was subsequently (1820-1836) applied to the 

 Conferences of local preachers appointed for each presiding elder's 

 district, and is now applied (since 1870) to the Conferences held an- 

 nually in each presiding elder's district, and composed of all the 

 preachers in the district — traveling and local — and of such number 

 of laymen as the Annual Conference may determine. In 1796 the 

 term " District" was .changed to "Yearly," and "Yearly," in 1816, 

 to 'Annual Conferences." The boundary of the South Carolina 

 Conference was given in 1796, when the first six " Yearly Confer- 

 ences" were defined as follows: "The South Carolina Conference, 

 for South Carolina, Georgia, and the remainder of North Carolina 

 (not included in the Virginia Conference, viz., All that part of 

 North Carolina which lies on the north side of Cape Fear River, 

 including also the circuits which are situated on the branches of 

 the Yadkin)." In 1804 Wilmington, Morganton, and Swanano cir- 

 cuits, were transferred to the South Carolina Conference; in 1812 

 that part of South Carolina included in the Holston District (Tu- 

 gulo, Pickens, and Greenville circuits) was transferred to the Ten- 

 nessee Conference ; and in 1824 the Black Mountain and French 

 Broad circuits, which formerly belonged to the South Carolina Con- 

 ference, were transferred to the Holston Conference; and South 

 Carolina Conference included all South Carolina, Georgia, East 

 Florida, and that part of North Carolina not included in the Vir- 

 ginia and Holston Conferences. In 1830, under the proviso of 

 1828 authorizing the bishop or bishops attending the South Car- 

 olina Conference, with the advice and consent of said Conference, to 

 form a new Conference of any section of country included in its 



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