THE JOINT BOARD OF FINANCE
1. Each Annual Conference shall have a Joint Board of Finance, appointed
by the President of the Conference, (unless otherwise ordered,) at the
close of its annual session, to hold their office until the close of the
next ensuing Annual Conference session.
2. Said Board shall consist of one clerical member of the Conference and
one layman for each Presiding Elder's District. They shall elect their
own Chairman and Secretary, and the Board shall fill all vacancies that
may occur in the body; =provided=, they do so by keeping up an equal
number of clerical and lay members.
3. It shall be the duty of the Joint Board of Finance—
(a) To receive all moneys collected as Annual Conference collections or
otherwise, and to forward the amount collected for superannuated
preachers, widows, and orphans to the Secretary of that fund.
(b) To estimate the amount necessary to meet the claims of the
superannuated preachers, widows, and orphans of preachers, and send a
list of these claimants to the Secretary of that department, together
with the number of years each superannuate has served in the active
itinerant ministry and the age of each child.
(c) To adjust and apportion the General and Contingent Funds in and to
all the charges of the Annual Conference, according to the number of
ministers and members reported at each session of the Conference.
(d) To fix the salary and traveling expenses of Presiding Elders and
apportion the same in and to the several charges within the District.
(e) To decide all issues that may arise between stewards and Presiding
Elders, or between stewards and preachers in charge, with regard to
salary. The decision of the Joint Board shall be final, but in no case,
shall any preacher hold a claim against any charge after his removal.
(f) To carefully consider and report to the conference upon all
financial interests referred to it. All financial matters of the
conference shall be referred to this Board.
(g) To make a full report of all its proceedings to the conference,
which shall have power to amend, approve, or re-commit.
4. The Recording Steward of each circuit or station shall report to the
Joint Board of Finance a full account of the transactions of the Board
of Stewards of the preceding year.
5. Each Annual Conference shall adopt its own method of raising money
for its legal claimants and its own expenses, provided such methods are
in harmony with the General laws and do not interfere with the rights of
the church conference to adopt its own method of raising money to meet
its expenses.