of its delegates have power to unite in a veto, and thereby annul any resolution of this kind adopted by the majority, so far as its observance in the whole Unity is concerned. None but the elected delegates of a Province shall take part in this vote.

Expenses of the General Synod.

The journeys and maintenance of the members of the General Synod, shall be defrayed from the Synodical Fund created by the Synod of 1857, and belonging to the whole Unity. After each Synod, the accounts of this fund shall be closed, and a statement of its receipts and disbursements sent to the churches of the several Provinces.

THE UNITY'S ELDERS' CONFERENCE.

Purpose of the Unity's Elders' Conference.

The General Synod shall elect an Executive Board of twelve members, called The Unity's Elders' Conference, to which shall be committed the oversight and direction of the Unity, from one Synod to another, in all things appertaining to the powers of the General Synod. This Board shall act in the name and by the authority of the General Synod, and shall be responsible to said Synod; but all officers or other boards appointed by the General Synod, or by the Unity's Elders' Conference, shall be responsible to it. The Unity's Elders' Conference shall receive from the Synod a power of attorney, by which it shall be accredited as the Directing Board of the Brethren's Unity.

Powers of the Unity's Elders' Conference.

The Unity's Elders' Conference shall have power :

a. To direct and administer all the general affairs of the Unity, in accordance with the principles and rules laid down by the General Synod.

b. By keeping up a regular correspondence with the Provincial Boards, which are to submit to it copies of their minutes and copies of the journals of the Provincial Synods; to see that the enactments of the General Synod are faithfully executed in the whole Unity.

c. To convene the General Synod in cases of emergency.

d. In the event of an extraordinary emergency, to abrogate a rule of the General Synod for the time being; said abrogation, however, to be made the subject of a special report to the next General Synod, setting forth the reasons which induced it.

e. To send one or more of its members on official visits to the Provinces and the Foreign Mission fields; said visits to take place, as far as possible, on the occasion of Provincial Synods.

Organization of the Unity's Elders' Conference.

The Unity's Elders' Conference shall organize by the election of its own officers, consisting of a President and Vice-President, and appoint its Recording Secretaries, who shall not be members of the Board.

The Unity's Elders' Conference shall be divided into three departments:

1. The Elders' and Education Department, having particular superintendence over the spiritual state of the Unity, and over the Unity's educational institutions.

2. The Warden's Department, to which the financial concerns of the Unity shall be committed.

3. The Mission Department, having charge of the Foreign Mission work.

Each department shall consist of four members.

Election of the Unity's Elders' Conference.

As soon as the General Synod has been fully organized, the Unity's Elders' Conference shall resign in a body. Before the Synod adjourns, a new Board shall be elected, according to the following rules:

a. Members of the late Board shall be re-eligible.

b. A majority of votes shall be necessary for an election. c. Each Synod shall decide in how far and in what manner the lot shall be used, for the purpose of confirming the election.

Vacancies in the Unity's Elders' Conference.

In case a vacancy occurs in the Unity's Elder's Conference in the interval between one General Synod and the next, the Unity's Elders' Conference shall issue a circular, notifying the Provinces of the same, and calling upon them for their votes. Said votes shall be regarded in the light of proposals; the election itself shall belong to the Board, and take place in full session.

The votes shall be distributed as follows:

1. Each department of the Unity's Elders' Conference shall have two votes.

2. The Continental Province shall have sixteen votes. 3. The British Province shall have twelve votes. 4. The American Province shall have eleven votes: eight for the Northern, and three for the Southern District.

When the votes have all been returned to the Unity's Elders' Conference, and each ticket should contain the names of three brethren,-this Board shall proceed to the election, guided by the votes received, and subject to the confirmation of the Lord, by the use of the lot. The name of no brother having less than one-third of all the votes returned shall be submitted to the lot.

A protocol of the election shall be drawn up and signed by all the members of the Board; the substance of which shall be communicated to the Provinces.

The Unity's Elders' Conference shall not create vacancies by appointing one or more of its members to other offices in the church.

Finances of the Unity.

The Unity, as such, shall hold in common, three funds : 1. The Foreign Mission Fund; by which are meant the receipts for the Foreign Missions from societies, churches, and individuals, together with the principal and interest of all funded capitals held and administered by the Mission Board.

2. The Synodical Fund, created by the Synod of 1857, from which the expenses of the General Synod shall be defrayed.

3. The Fund for the maintenance of the Unity's Elders' Conference, from which fund those members of this body shall be salaried who are not supported by the Foreign Mission Fund, or by the Continental Province.*

SECTION II.-CONSTITUTIONS OF THE THREE PROVINCES.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES.

The government of the Provinces, so far as all provincial matters are concerned, shall be vested in their respective Provincial Synods. To, these shall belong the supreme direction of provincial concerns, and the power to legislate on them.

But no resolutions shall be adopted conflicting

The Unity's Elders' Conference being, for the present, the Provincial Conference of the Continental Province, some of the members are maintained by that Province.

with the principles and rules of the Unity as established by the General Synod.

The Executive Boards for the management of the provincial affairs of the Provinces, shall be the Provincial Elders' Conferences, which shall be responsible to the Provincial Synods. Said Conferences shall, therefore, on the one hand, in connection with the Unity's Elders' Conference, see that the resolutions of the General Synod are faithfully carried out in the Provinces, and on the other, independently of the Unity's Elders' Conference, (unless a Provincial Synod has otherwise ordered,) act as the Executive Boards of the Provincial Synods by which they are elected.

A. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF. THE AMERICAN PROVINCE.

THE PROVINCIAL SYNOD.

Powers of the Provincial Synod.

The Synod of the Northern District of the American Province shall have power:

a. To fix the time and place of meeting for the next Provincial Synod, but in case of emergency, the Provincial Elders' Conference may convene the Synod at an earlier day.

b. To determine from time to time the number of delegates each church shall be entitled to send to such Synod, and the manner of their election.

c. To elect the delegates which the Province may be entitled to send to the General Synod.

d. To elect an Executive Committee, to be called the Provincial Elders' Conference, to consist of such number of members as the Provincial Synod may from time to time determine,