Twenty-Five Pounds per annum. And the Missionaries themselves shall be required to pay the annual subscription of Four Guineas for each of their boys at the Schools, in common with the Preachers stationed in this country.

3. At every District-Meeting, in the month of May, on the day in which the Circuit-Stewards are in attendance during the transaction of the financial business of the District, the Chairman is directed to inquire particularly into the amount of the Subscriptions and Collections raised for the School-Fund in each Circuit, and to compare them with the lists of the preceding year. Where any material deficiency, or want of due exertion, shall appear, the case shall be specially reported in the District-Minutes, and brought by the Chairman before the ensuing Conference.

4. The General Treasurers shall immediately address a Circular Letter to the Quarterly Meetings of all those Circuits which have lately applied for and received additional Preachers; reminding them of the unavoidable increase of expenditure which is eventually entailed on the School-Fund, as well as on the other general Funds of the Connexion, by every increase in the number of Preachers; and urging upon them the necessity and duty of making proper exertions to augment, in their several Circuits, in a proportion corresponding to the augmentation of claims, the Subscriptions and Collections for that Fund.

N. B. 1. The Private Subscriptions and Public Collections for the Schools, &c., are to be made, as usual, in the month of October. All money belonging to this Fund is to be remitted to the General Treasurers, (whose address is, REV. MESSRS. STANLEY and HANNAH, Old Methodist Chapel, Leeds,) and to no other persons. And it is expressly required, that the Collections, &c., received in October, shall be transmitted to the General Treasurers not later than the 15th of November.

2. The Treasurers' Account will be closed on the 24th of June, that they may bring with them to the Conference a complete report of the state of the Fund; in order to which every Superintendent is required to transmit to the Treasurers a correct list of his Subscriptions and Collections, on or before the 20th of June. Each Chairman shall extract from his District Minutes every thing which relates to the School-Fund, which extract he shall send to the Treasurers prior to the above-mentioned day. And, further, every Superintendent shall pay to the Chairman of his District, at the time of the Annual District-Meeting, at latest, all additional Subscriptions or Collections which he may have received after the 15th of November.

3. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the late Local Committees and Secretaries of the Schools, to the REV. JACOB STANLEY, and the REV. W. TOASE, the late General Trea

surers, and to the REV. S. HOPE, the General Secretary, for their faithful and diligent attention to the duties of their respective offices; and to the Governors, Governesses, and Masters, for their able and satisfactory management of the concerns of the Schools, during the past year.

4. The Conference return their grateful acknowledgments to the following friends, for their kind donations towards the liquidation of the debt of the two Schools: viz.,

Q. XX. What directions are necessary in reference to the affairs of our Book-Room?

A. 1. The recommendations of the Committee as to the future mode of printing our books are approved; and Messrs. Stamp, G. Marsden, Waddy, and Bunting, are appointed to meet with the Book-Committee in London, in the first week of November next, or as near that time as may be found convenient, for the purpose of carrying the proposed arrangements into speedy effect. They shall, at the same time, examine into the general state of our Book Concern; and shall report to the next Conference, the names, employments, and salaries of all servants employed in that concern, together with any suggestions which may occur to them for its further improvement and usefulness.

2. The Catalogue of Books which, though not originally published by us, are usually kept on sale at our Book-Room, shall be carefully revised, and then reprinted; any publications which may, on strict examination, be deemed improper, having first been erased from the list.

3. A new edition (in 12mo) of Mr. Charles Wesley's Family Hymns shall be published immediately; and also a pocket edition of the Sacramental Hymns, with Mr. Wesley's Extract from Dr. Brevint's Treatise on the Christian Sacrifice, prefixed. We advise our Preachers to revive the general use of the Sacramental Hymns, when they administer the Lord's Supper; and strongly to recommend the private use of them to our people, as likely to promote a devout and profitable attendance on that holy

ordinance.

4. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the London members of the late Book-Committee, and to the BookSteward, for their attention to the business of their departments during the past year; and especially to the REV. R. WADDY, their Secretary, for his assiduous and faithful discharge of the duties of that office, and to the Members of the Sub-Committee, for their valuable investigations and labours.

5. The REV. JOSEPH TAYLOR, jun., is appointed the Secretary to the London Book-Committee for the year ensuing.

6. The REV. JOHN BROWN is re-appointed as Secretary to the Tract-Committee. His address is No. 14, City-Road, London. 7. The cordial thanks of the Conference are hereby given to the REV. THOMAS JACKSON, for his able and esteemed services as our Editor during the past year; and particularly for the satisfactory manner in which he has conducted the " WesleyanMethodist Magazine," and for his new and correct edition of Mr. Wesley's Sermons, lately published.

8. The cordial thanks of the Conference are likewise presented to the REV. JABEZ BUNTING, and to the REV. RICHARD WATSON, for the very valuable assistance which they are reported by the Editor to have afforded in the course of the past year, in several important departments of our Magazine; and they are requested to continue to give such help as their other official duties will permit in the general management of that work.

9. The General Book-Committee, which shall meet at Liverpool on the Saturday previous to the next Conference, shall consist of our President and Secretary, and such of the members of the London Book-Committee as may be authorized by their District-Meetings to attend that Conference; with the Rev. Messrs. James Wood, Edmondson, G. Marsden, R. Newton, Reynolds, sen., Sutcliffe, Stamp, Truscott, Thomas Wood, Riles, Hickling, Thomas Roberts, Buckley, Waddy, Jacob Stanley, Slack, V. Ward, Naylor, W. Davies, 1st, Grindrod, W. Evans, and Dr. Townley.

CHAPEL-FUND.

Q. XXI. What is the judgment of the Conference on the Report and Recommendations of the Chapel-Fund Committee? A. They are unanimously approved: and it is therefore directed,

1. That duplicates of the schedules of all chapels which have received assistance shall be annually sent to the Chairmen of the Districts, in order to assist them in their inquiries into cases for which relief is requested; and that those duplicates shall be preserved from year to year in every district, in a book

prepared for the purpose, so as to afford the means of convenient reference.

2. That a note shall be appended to the schedules, requiring every Superintendent to examine the Trustee-books, and to sign each schedule, as vouching for its correctness, before he bring any case to the District-Meeting.

3. The direction of last year having been but partially executed, it is again desired, that every Superintendent will produce at the next Annual Meeting of his District, a copy of the Plan of his Circuit, marking those places at which we have chapels with the letter C; and these Plans shall be transmitted by the Chairman to the General Treasurers in London, together with the chapel-schedules of each Circuit, by the first day of July.

4. We confirm the rule made last year, requiring the Chairman to make strict inquiry, in every Annual District-Meeting, what has been the amount of Subscriptions and Collections for this Fund in each Circuit. (See Vol. V., p. 515.)

5. The cordial thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to THOMAS MARRIOTT, ESQ., and DR. WARREN, the General Treasurers, and to the REV. RICHARD WATSON, the Secretary of the Chapel-Fund, for their very efficient services during the past year; and they are severally requested to accept the same offices for the year ensuing.

6. The Committee of Distribution of the Chapel-Fund for 1826, which shall meet in Liverpool on the Monday previous to the next Conference, shall consist of our PRESIDENT and SECRETARY; the Treasurers and Secretary of the Fund; the Rev. Messrs. James Wood, Moore, Gaulter, Reece Edmondson, G. Marsden, R. Newton, Thomas Wood, Truscott, Buckley, Waddy, Thomas Stanley, William Davies, 1st, V. Ward, and Grindrod; and of fifteen Trustees, (not being Travelling Preachers,) to be chosen by the June Quarterly Meetings of Circuits belonging to the Districts most contiguous to the place at which the Conference is to assemble; viz., three Trustees are to be chosen by the Quarterly Meeting at Liverpool, one at Chester, one at Preston, one at Warrington, one at Macclesfield, one at Shrewsbury, one at Burslem, one at Birmingham, one at Dudley, one at Manchester South, one at Salford, and one at Carnarvon.

CHAPEL-BUILDING COMMITTEE.

Q. XXII. Who are the Chapel-Building Committee, (without whose previous consent, obtained in writing, no chapel, whether large or small, is to be erected, purchased, or enlarged,) for the ensuing year?

A. 1. All the Preachers of the Manchester and Salford Circuits; with Messrs. John Marsden, Marris, James Wood, S. Stocks, Westhead, Rea, J. Lomas, Henson, Chappell, Potter, James Fildes, William Marsden, Wild, Downes, and W. F. Johnson, all of Manchester or Salford.

2. This Committee are requested to meet regularly on the first Monday in every month; and oftener, if necessary.

3. The REV. ROBERT WOOD is re-appointed the Secretary of this Committee. All letters on the subject of chapels should be addressed to him, at the Methodist Chapel-House, Great Bridgewater-Street, Manchester. It is particularly requested that such letters may be sent post-paid. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to MR. WOOD for his diligent attention to the business of this Committee during the past year.

4. The Preachers, and others whom it may concern, are reminded, that, according to rule, "no case shall be sanctioned by the Committee, unless it shall come before them as having received the previous approbation of the Quarterly Meeting of the Circuit, and shall be recommended either by the Annual District-Meeting, or at least by three Superintendents in the neighbourhood, who shall certify their approbation in writing." And the Conference again strongly recommend, that the consent of the District-Meeting, and not merely of three Superintendents, shall be obtained, before any decisive step is taken, wherever it is possible to wait, without material inconvenience, until that meeting shall be assembled.

N. B. The following is the proper

Form of an Application to the Chapel-Building Committee, for permission to erect a New Chapel.

It is proposed that a New Chapel, feet in breadth, outside, be erected at

feet in length, by

in the Circuit; where the number of Members in Society is the average of regular hearers about and the population about The estimated expense of the Land is £ ; and of the Building £ towards which £ have been, or will be, raised by Subscriptions, &c. The income, from Pew-Rents, &c., will probably per annum. The Chapel will be properly settled on the Methodist Plan. The above proposal has received the sanction of the Quarterly and District Meetings and the consent of the Chapel-Building Committee is hereby solicited.

amount to L

N. B. 1. Where the land is not freehold, the nature and term of its tenure must be distinctly specified.