out of its Yearly Collection, by any District, for the purpose of immediately paying to a few Circuits their whole Allowance, many Circuits, in Districts differently circumstanced, would be thereby deprived of their fair share of the temporary accommodation, which this plan is designed to provide for all who need it.

6. In order to encourage the Circuits to make proper exertions for the augmentation of their Yearly Collections, it has been agreed, that if the total amount of those Collections in any District, as actually paid in at the DistrictMeeting in May, shall be found to exceed the total amount raised in the same District in the year preceding, the additional sum so raised may, for that one year, be divided by the said Meeting among the most necessitous Circuits of the District, in addition to the Grant voted to it by the Committee of Distribution. Such Additions to the last year's Collections are not, therefore, to be reckoned as a part of the Surplus which must be in all cases transmitted to the Treasurer, as directed by the 5th Article of this Minute, but may, if needed, be immediately distributed at the District-Meeting, and so reported in their Minutes.

7. Two-thirds of the Annual Grant for Ordinaries to each District having thus been actually paid to the Circuits, among which it had been divided, partly at Christmas, and partly, either at the May District-Meeting, or immediately after it,—the remaining Third, (as well as the Grants for Extraordinaries,) shall be paid, according to our existing rules and usages, at the ensuing Conference; when the Account for the year will be finally adjusted and settled with the Chairman or Representative of every District, and, through him, with the Superintendents of those Circuits which have claims on the Fund.

e Treasurer of the Contingent Fund is authorized

to provide for the several Payments directed by the preceding Articles, as follows: viz.

(1.) For the First Instalments, due at Christmas, he is to provide partly by any Balance which may be in his hands from the Account of the preceding year,-partly by an annual payment of at least One Thousand Pounds, to be made to him at Christmas, by our Book-Steward, in part of the Yearly Profits of the Book-Concern,-and partly, by borrowing, for a time, any further sum which may be found necessary to complete such Instalments.

N. B. The sum so borrowed for this Fund, by the Treasurer, shall be repaid by means of a further advance, of not less than Two Thousand Pounds, to be made to him by our Book-Steward, on or before first day of May in every year. And for the purpose of securing to the BookSteward the means of making these prompt advances of money, to aid the work of God in the poorer Circuits, the Conference has adopted the Rule which will be found at p. 172, and with which all the Superintendents are charged conscientiously and punctually to comply.

(2.) The Second Instalments are to be provided, as before directed, in the 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th Articles, out of the Yearly Collection, taken at the amount of the preceding year, and received at the District-Meetings in May.

(3.) The Third and Final Instalments, together with all Grants for Extraordinary Deficiencies, are to be paid by the Treasurer at the Conference, partly by means of the surplus of Yearly Collection, still in his hands; partly by the July Collection; and partly by the additional sum which he will then receive from the Book-Steward, as the remaining Profits of the Book-Concern for the year, according to the Estimate made at the preceding Conference.

9. The Chairmen of Districts, and the Treasurer of the Contingent Fund, as far as it belongs to their departments respectively, are directed to take particular care, before any allowances out of that Fund are voted or paid to Deficient Circuits, that the full quotas of contribution, owing from such Circuits to the Children's Fund, for the current year, shall be duly secured, according to an Article of the Children's Fund, 1820.-1821. [See Children's Fund, No. III. 8.]

II. THE CHAPEL FUND.

I Q. WHAT directions shall be given concerning the execution and enrollment of Deeds?

A. 1. The Deed must be drawn on a parchment with a ten shilling stamp.

2. If it relate to a Preaching-House out of London, it must be acknowledged by a person or persons conveying the Premises to the Trustees, (after the execution of it,) before a Master Extraordinary in Chancery. N. B. Almost every eminent Attorney at law in the country, is a Master Extraordinary in Chancery.

8. It must be enrolled in Chancery within six lunar months after the execution of it. 1792.

II. Q. WHAT is the result of the arrangements made last year, with a view to some improvement in our mode of relieving those Chapels which need more pecuniary assist

ance than can be obtained in the Circuits to which they locally belong?

A. Meetings of the Committees appointed to consider this subject having been held in London and in Leeds, which were attended by various Preachers, and by many respectable Trustees, from different places, after much discussion the Committee at Leeds submitted a Report containing their Resolutions to the Conference.

The Conference having considered the Report of the Committee, resolves,

1. That the Resolutions of the Committee, appointed to arrange a Plan for the Relief of Chapels which need assistance from the Connexion, be approved and adopted.

2. That a General Chapel Fund, to be supported by Private Subscriptions, by Public Collections, by Legacies, and by Annual Subscriptions from the Trust-Funds of Chapels, on the plan recommended by the said Committee, shall be immediately instituted.

3. That the Preachers, in conjunction with a Deputation of such Trustees as are willing to concur in this Plan, shall make applications in their respective Circuits for Subscriptions, in aid of the said Fund, in the month of February next, and in the same month of every succeeding year; at the close of which a Public Collection for the same object shall be made, as has been usual, in all our Chapels, so as to afford to those who have not been individually solicited the opportunity of contributing to this good cause.

4. That a Circular Letter, stating the objects and necessity of the General Chapel Fund, be sent to the Trustees of every Chapel in the Connexion, in the month of February, at latest; and that they shall be respectfully and earnestly solicited to evince their readiness to concur in the measures thus adopted for the general relief of the Body of

Trustees, and for the permanent prosperity of the Work of God among us, by paying to their respective Superintendents some sum, not less than One Guinea for each Chapel, and more, if the circumstances of their several Trust-Estates will admit, to be applied to the assistance of those Chapels which most urgently need help from this Fund.

5. That THOMAS MARRIOTT, Esq., and Mr. GEORGE MARSDEN, both of London, shall be requested to act as Joint-Treasurers of the General Chapel Fund for the ensuing

year.

6. That every Superintendent shall be required punctually to remit to the General Treasurers all the monies which may be raised for the said Fund in his Circuit, whether privately or publicly, on or before the 15th day of March in every year.

7. That the Committee of Distribution, for 1819, shall consist of Messrs. James Wood, Henry Moore, Charles Atmore, James Bogie, Walter Griffith, Jonathan Crowther, John Gaulter, George Highfield, Richard Reece, Joseph Entwisle, John Braithwaite, Thomas Ingham, Richard Treffry, Valentine Ward, and David Rogers, with the President and Secretary of the Conference, and the JointTreasurers of the General Chapel Fund ;-and of Fifteen Trustees, (not being Travelling Preachers,) to be invited by the President, who shall select for this purpose such Trustees, chiefly, as reside in the Districts most contiguous to the place where the Conference is to be held.

8. That the distribution of the monies raised for the Chapel Fund shall be left absolutely, for the first to year, the judgment of the said Committee, on the plan recommended in the above-mentioned Report; and that they be requested, at their Meeting in Bristol, on the Saturday before the Meeting of the next Conference, to draw u