mittee, he shall be allowed an appeal to the next Quarterly Confer ence. 2. The appeal being made and allowed, the preacher in charge shall present the minutes of the trial to the Quarterly Conference, from which minutes the case shall finally be determined. 3. No member of the committee for trial shall vote on the appeal. 4. The appellant shall either state personally, or by his representative (who shall be a member of the Church), the grounds of his appeal, showing cause why he appeals, and he shall be permitted to make his defense without interruption. After which the representatives of the society or committee, from whose decision the appeal is made, shall be permitted to respond in presence of the appellant, who shall have privilege of replying, which shall close the pleadings on both sides. This done, the appellant shall withdraw, and the majority of the members of the Quarterly Conference present shall finally determine the case. 5. No member, after such form of trial and expulsion, shall be restored to the communion of the Church without giving satisfactory evidence of repentance, unless the Quarterly Conference shall become convinced that he was innocent of the crime for which he was UXpelled, in which case he may be restored. CHAPTER VIII. OF THE DEPRIVATION AND RESTORATION OF CREDENTIALS. SECTION I. CREDENTIALS OF TRAVELING ELDERS OR DEACONS. 1. When any traveling elder or deacon is deprived of his credentials of ordination by expulsion or otherwise, they shall be filed with the papers of the Annual Conference of which he was a member. 2. Should he at any future time give satisfactory evidence to said Conference of his amendment or innocence, and procure a certificate of the Quarterly Conference of the circuit or station where he resides, or of an Annual Conference which may have admitted him on trial, recommending to the Annual Conference, of which he was formerly a member, the restoration of his credentials, the said Conference may restore them. SECTION II. CREDENTIALS OF LOCAL ELDERS OR DEACONS. 1. When any local elder or deacon is deprived of his credentials. of ordination, by expulsion or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Presiding Elder to require them of him, and to file them with the papers of the Annual Conference within the limits of which the said local preacher resides. 2. Should he, at any future time, produce to the Annual Conference |