INDIANA CONFERENCE-Allen Wiley, E. R. Ames, Calvin W. Ruter, Augustus Eddy, Aaron Wood.

HOLSTON CONFERENCE-S. Patton, E. F. Sevier, T. K. Catlett.

/ TENNESSEE CONFERENCE-Robert Paine, Fountain E. Pitts, John B. M'Ferrin, A. F. Driskill, S. S. Moody.

ARKANSAS CONFERENCE-John Harrell, John C. Parker.

MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE-John M. Holland, William Winans, B. M. Drake.

ALABAMA CONFERENCE--Wm. Murrah, Eugene V. Levert, Elisha Callaway.

GEORGIA CONFERENCE-Samuel K. Hodges, Lovick Pierce, Wm. J. Parks, Ignatius A. Few, Elijah Sinclair, George F. Pierce.

SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE-William Capers, Charles Betts, William M. Wightman, Bond English, Hartwell Spain.

NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE-Hezekiah G. Leigh, M. Brock, James Jamieson.

VIRGINIA CONFERENCE-Thomas Crowder, John Early, William A. Smith.

BALTIMORE CONFERENCE-Samuel Brison, John A. Collins, John Miller, Stephen G. Roszel, Henry Slicer, Norval Wilson, Edwin Dorsey, John A. Gere.

PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE-Solomon Higgins, Matthew Sorin, Henry White, Levi Scott, Joseph Lybrand.

NEW-JERSEY CONFERENCE-Charles Pitman, Richard W. Petherbridge, Manning Force, Isaac Winner, John S. Porter.

GENERAL CONFERENCE, 1840.

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Ar a General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Conference Church, held in the city of Baltimore, commencing on Friday, May 1, 1840, the Rev. Robert R. Roberts, Elijah Hedding, James O. Andrew, Beverly Waugh, Thomas A. Morris, Bishops of said church, being present, Bishop Roberts opened the Conference by reading a portion of the Holy Scriptures. After singing, prayer was offered by Bishop Hedding.

The Assistant Secretary of the last General Conference, Thomas B. Sargent, was requested by the President to call the list of the delegates present, which was done, and the following brethren presented the necessary vouchers of their election, and took their seats, namely:

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The Conference then proceeded to organize. John A. Secretaries Collins was appointed Secretary, James B. Houghtaling and Thomas B. Sargent were chosen Assistant Secretaries. Bishop Roberts introduced to the Conference our be

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Delegates from loved brethren, the Rev. Robert Newton, representative nada Confer- of the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference, the Rev.

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Joseph Stinson, President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, Upper Canada, Rev. John Ryerson, representative from Canada Conference, and Joseph Sowter, Esq., of Castle Donington, travelling companion of Rev. Robert Newton, each of whom addressed the Conference.

John Early moved that the rules of order for the last General Conference be adopted for the government of this Conference. The rules were then read and taken up in consecutive order. The first and second rules were adopted, as were also the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth articles in the order of business under the second rule. The seventh article was amended on motion of William A. Smith by appending the words thereto, or a substitute," so as to read thus: "No new motion or resolution shall be made until the one under consideration is disposed of, which may be done by adoption or rejection, unless one of the following motions should intervene, which motion shall have precedence in the order in which they are placed, viz., indefinite postponement, lying on the table, reference to a committee, postponement to a given time, amendment. or a substitute;" and thus amended, the article was adopted. The eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth articles were adopted. The thirteenth, on motion of Wm. A. Smith, was stricken out. The remaining articles were severally read and adopted.

A motion by G. Filmore to reconsider the ninth article in the order of business was lost.

Henry Slicer and John Early offered a resolution to add the following to the rules of Conference: "Whenever one-third of the members present shall demand that the question be taken by yeas and nays, the question shall be so taken, and the result recorded." On motion of W. B. Christie, it was laid on the table.

The Conference then, on motion of Dr. Bangs, adopted the rules entire, which read as follows:

I. The Conferences hall meet at half-past eight o'clock, A. M., and adjourn at half-past twelve o'clock, P. M., but alter the times of meeting and adjournment at their discretion.

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II. The President shall take the chair precisely at the hour to which the Conference stood adjourned, and cause the same to be opened by reading the Scriptures, singing, and prayer; And, on the appearance of a quorum, shall have the journals of the preceding day read and approved, when the business of the Conference shall proceed in the following order, namely:

1st. Reports, first of the standing, and then of the select committees..