be final. And no allowance for affliction shall be paid to Preachers, stationed on Circuits as effective men, which has not been thus examined and approved.

2. A Report of the whole Receipts and Disbursements of the Auxiliary Fund, shall continue to be published annually, and a copy sent to every Subscriber of Ten Shillings or upwards. In the Preface to every such Annual Report shall be re-printed the following Rule, according to which all Subscriptions to it are strictly appropriated: viz. "The monies raised for the Auxiliary Fund, shall be applied, after paying the Old Annuitants who have regular claims upon it, (1.) To supply the wants of Supernumerary Preachers, not yet declared superannuated. (2.) To assist Preachers who have been visited by peculiar personal or family afflictions. (3.) To furnish additional aid to superannuated Preachers, whose legal allowance from the Methodist Preachers' Annuitant Society is inadequate to their wants. And, (4.) in general, to defray various miscellaneous expenses, respecting the families of disabled or deceased Preachers."

3. Among the cases provided for under the preceding Rule, those of the Children of deceased Preachers shall be taken into particular consideration by the Committee of Eleven; and a sum not exceeding the amount of the usual provision for Children of living Preachers, shall be appropriated for their education and maintenance.

4. The relief to be occasionally granted to Preachers in the cases of affliction, described under the first Article of this Minute, is only to be allowed out of the Auxiliary Fund, in such instances of peculiar affliction as cannot be relieved in the ordinary and regular way, by the exertions

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of the Circuits in which those Preachers labour. District-Meetings, and the Committee of Eleven, are required to pay particular attention to this point.

5. Every Superintendent, in whose Circuit any Claimant on the Auxiliary Fund may reside, is required to lay the whole case of such Claimant before the District-Meeting of which he is a member; the particulars of which shall be entered upon the District-Minutes for the direction of the Committee of Eleven. On the same Minutes shall also be entered the exact age of those Children of deceased Preachers, in whose behalf any claim is made upon this Fund. 1815.

IV. THE Minute made last year, [see No. III.] which declares, that "the relief to be occasionally granted to Preachers in cases of affliction, is to be allowed out of the Auxiliary Fund, only in such instances of peculiar affliction as cannot be relieved in the ordinary way, by the exertions of those Circuits on which such Preachers labour,”—shall be annually re-printed, with the other Rules respecting the Distribution of the Auxiliary Fund, in the Report of that Fund. 1816.

V. Ir is resolved, that in the Grants which are annually made from the Auxiliary Fund, the Committee of Eleven, legally chosen, shall take into consideration all the circumstances of the Claimants, including the number of Children dependant on them, and shall grant, in one total Sum, according to the necessity of the case, such supply as may be judged expedient, consistently with the state of the Fund; but it is the determination of the Conference, not to go beyond the Income of the Year in the distribution of the Money which shall be granted. 1820.

VI. THE Chairmen of Districts are required to send to the Treasurer such parts of the Minutes of the DistrictMeetings as relate to the Auxiliary Fund, immediately after the Meeting of their Districts; in order that he may have sufficient time, before he leaves his Circuit to attend the Conference, to arrange and prepare the Cases recommended to the consideration of the Committee of Eleven. 1826.

Miscellaneous.

I. THE BOOK-ROOM.

As the Book-Concerns of the Methodist Connexion have ever been an important part of its economy, and the Regulations which from time to time were found necessary to carry it on became numerous and complex, a Digest of the Rules was found to be desirable as early as the year 1804. To this object, therefore, the Book-Committee in London at that time directed their attention, and "recommended to the ensuing Conference carefully to revise all their Rules respecting printing and publishing, and to insert in the Minutes a proper Digest of the whole, containing the result of their final deliberations and conclusions upon these subjects; as it appeared to that Committee, that the Rules then in existence were not sufficiently clear and consistent."

The Conference, however, though they were sensible of the importance of the recommendation, were, through the multiplicity of business, unable to enter into the subject, and referred the accomplishment of the design to the BookCommittee. After considerable deliberation they submitted a System of Rules, containing most of their old, and some new ones, to the consideration of the Conference of 1806.

The Plan was considered and adopted by that Conference, as their Plan for conducting and managing their Book-Concerns, and was accordingly published by their authority, for the information and direction of all the Members of their Body.

Since that time it has undergone another revision, which brings it down to the year 1824.-This Document, together with the Preamble which accompanied the former System of Rules, is presented in the following pages.

PREAMBLE.

OUR late Father in God, the REV. JOHN WESLEY, Was the original Founder and Proprietor of our Book-Concern. He printed, published, and sold his own and his Brother's Works, with the Works of the late Rev. John Fletcher, and other Preachers in his Connexion, for the benefit of mankind in general, and the maintenance, defence, and progress of Methodism in particular. He had a printingoffice, warehouse, shop, &c. of his own, and employed such servants therein as he thought fit. The Assistants of the Circuits were his Agents in the Country, and sold his Publications for the allowance of one penny in every shilling, and, in some cases, without any allowance whatever. The Preachers stationed in London for the time being, with MR. WESLEY'S principal servants in the busi ness, were a Committee of advice, and the profits of the concern, were at MR. WESLEY's disposal.