100 SeVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST YEAR BOOK.
GENERAL CONFERENCE CONSTITUTION.
| ARTICLE L—NAME.
This Conference shall be called the General Conference of Seventh-
day Adventists.
ARTICLE II.—OFFICERS.
_ SECTION 1. The officers of this Conference shall be a President, a
Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, and an
Executive Committee of seven, of whom the President shall be one.
Sec. 2. The Executive Committee shall have power to fill any vacan-
cies that may occur in their number by death, resignation, or otherwise.
Sec. 3. The officers shall be elected at the regular meetings of the
Conference, and shall hold their offices for the term of one year, or until
their successors are chosen. .
ARTICLE IIL.—MEMBERS.
This Conference shall be composed of delegates from the State Con-
ferences, of the officers of the Conference, and of such ministers as shall
have been in the employ of the General Conference during any part of
the year. And the Executive Committee are authorized to issue creden-
tials to such ministers as are delegates to the Conference.
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ARTICLE IV.—PRESIDEXT AND SECRETARIES.
The duties of the President and Secretaries shall be such as usually
pertain to those offices.
ARTICLE V.—TREASURER.
It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive and disburse means
undur the direction of the Executive Committee. and to keep an account
of the same, and make a full report thereof to the regular meetings of
the Conference. oT
ARTICLE VI.—COMMITTEE.
Sectiox 1. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to take
the general supervision of all ministerial labor, and see that the same is
properly distributed ; and they shall take the special supervision of all
missionary labor, and as a missionary board shall have the power to de-
cide where such labor is needed, and who shall go-as missionaries to
perform the same. .
Sec. 2. When any State Conference desires ministerial labor from a
minister not a resident within the bounds of such Conference, its re-
quest shall be made to the General Conference Executive Committee,
and ministers sent by said Committee shall be considered under the ju-
risdiction of the Conference committee of such State: Provided, -1.
That if such minister consider the State committee inefficient, or their
action so far wrong as to render his labor ineffectual, he may appeal to
the General Conference Executive Committee : Provided, 2. That if such
State committee consider such minsister inefficient, they may appeal to
the General Conference Committee, who shall decide on the matter of
complaint, and take such action as they may think proper.
Sec. 3. The General Conference Executive Committee shall have
power during the intervals between the yearly meetings to license min-
isters who may be raised up in mission fields.