Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifty-Second Annual Session (which is the eighth session since division), Methodist Episcopal Church, South Page: 4

                                
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Standing Rules
1. The District Steward, the Recording Steward and the Lay
Leaders of each charge are ex-officio members of the District
Conference. Besides these, each charge is entitled to four dele-
gates.
2. The Presiding Elders are a standing committee to nomi-
nate all the boards and regular standing committes at each ses-
sion of the Conference.
3. The Presiding Elders are required by Conference resolu-
tions to send to the Secretary of the Conference, immediately
after the meeting of their respective boards of District Stewards,
a copy of the assessments made on each charge, and these as-
sessments are to be recorded by the Secretary as the official
assessment against the several charges of the Conference.
4. The Presiding Elder of each district shall appoint an edi-
tor of the statistical reports of his district, whose duty it shall
be to collect all the statistical reports from the preachers in
charge within the district and see that they are correctly made
out. And when the District Editors shall have collected and
edited these reports, they shall turn them over to the Statistical
Secretary of the Conference, during the first day of the Confer-
ence session.
5. The Chairman of Committee on Admissions shall make
written report to be filed with the Secretary of the Conference,
concerning each one admitted into the Conference. This re-
port shall embrace: Full name; name of parents; date and place
of birth, conversion and license to preach; date of marriage;
name of wife, and such other facts of his life as may be deemed
important.
6. The appointment of any member of the Conference to the
presiding eldership shall automatically vacate his membership
on any of the quadrennial Boards or Examining Committees to
take effect at the opening of the ensuing session.
7. No assessment or collection shall be placed upon the
Church by this Conference until the Board of Adjustment shall
have recommended an aggregate amount for all assessments and
the amount for said assessment or collection.
8. The Board of Adjustments shall not be authorized to offer
to the Annual Conference any new or special assessments to be
levied upon the churches, unless such new and special assess-
ments shall comply with the following requirements: First,
it must be for an object or enterprise either owned by the M.
E. Church, South, or one over which this Conference has full
and sole control. Second, it must provide for the perfect execu-
tion of the funds so intrusted to the Conference and for a re-
port at the next Annual Conference showing in detail that the
trust had been executed and how.