behalf of the Funds of the Institution; and these Collections shall be made, if possible, in December.

(2) The Conference directs the Superintendents of Circuits to remit all Subscriptions and Collections for the Institution to the General Treasurers early in the year; and instructs the Chairmen of Districts to ascertain, by inquiry at the May Synod, whether such payments have been made.

(3) The Conference affirms the principle, which has from the beginning been recognised in the administration of the Institution, in regard to charges on account of Students, that such Students as have the means, or whose friends have the means, shall be expected to contribute, in whole or in part, according to their ability, towards the cost of their own maintenance and education; and it directs the General Committee to consider and adopt such methods as may be deemed best for carrying this rule into effect.

(4) A minimum charge for maintenance shall be made, which every Student shall be expected to defray; it being, however, distinctly understood that the General Committee shall be empowered to remit the charge wherever, and in so far as, it may be found on inquiry that any Student is unable to pay. And further, all Students who are able, either themselves or by their parents and friends, to add, to the payment for maintenance, payment on account of education, should be urged to do so.

(5) The Conference directs the President to inform the General Treasurers of the Institution Fund of the resignation of any Probationer, or of any Minister who has not been ten years in the Full Work of the Ministry, in order that a list may be kept and application made to those who have not discharged their obligations in respect of their Institution training.

15. The Conference learns with satisfaction that measures have been taken to provide for the growing demands of the Connexion for a trained Ministry, and recognises the urgent for an increase in the annual income of not less than

£1,000. The Conference directs the General Committee to take such steps as may in its judgment meet this increased expenditure. The Conference authorises an appeal to the Connexion for an increase in the Annual Collections and in Private Subscriptions. The Conference also sanctions an appeal for Annual Subscriptions to Trustees of Chapels, and also to Ministers who have been trained in the Institution.

EDUCATION.

Q. XI. What are the Resolutions of the Conference on the subject of Wesleyan Education ?

A. 1. The Conference receives the Report of the proceedings of the Education Committee during the year, together with a Statistical Statement relating to Training Colleges, Day Schools, Sunday Schools, and the Connexional Sunday School Union; and directs that an Abstract thereof be printed in the Minutes. (See Appendix III.)

2. The thanks of the Conference are presented to Mr. THOMAS BARNSLEY, for his services as a Treasurer of the Education Fund.

3. The Conference appoints the Rev. ENOCH Salt, and reappoints Mr. Thomas Barnsley, as Treasurers of the Fund. 4. The Education Committee shall consist of the following: (1) The ex officio Members: the Rev. J. SCOTT LIDGETT, M.A., President of the Conference; JOHN S. SIMON, Ex-President; JOHN HORNABROOK, Secretary; Enoch Salt, and Mr. Thomas Barnsley, Treasurers of the Education Fund; Rev. Dr. Waller, Secretary of the Education Committee; Herbert B. Workman, D.Lit., Principal of the Westminster Training College; James Chapman, Principal of the Southlands Training College; J. Williams Butcher, Secretary of the Sunday-school Union; Dr. Arthur E. Gregory, Principal of The Children's Home; Robert Culley, Book Steward; John Telford, B.A., Connexional Editor;

(2) Twenty-four Ministers in the London Districts:

(3) Thirty Laymen in the London Districts:

Mr. William J. Back,

Mr. T. Ivor Moore,

W. Henry Thompson,

George J. Morris, M.A.,

(4) Eight Ministers and eight Laymen residing in other

than the London Districts:

Rev. Dr. Allen,

Mr. Walter W. Berry,

J. Wesley Walker,

(5) One Minister and one Layman nominated by each

Administrative Resolutions and Resolutions of 1891, 1895, and 1899 (see Minutes, 1905, pp. 64-68).—The Conference directs that the following Resolutions, previously adopted, shall be reprinted :

(1) The Conference empowers the Wesleyan Education Committee to make grants towards expenditure incurred by structural and other alterations demanded by the Board of Education in Day-school premises.

(2) The October Examination of Pupil Teachers in Religious Knowledge shall be held on the last Saturday of that month. The March Examination will continue to be held on the first Saturday of that month.

(3) Day and Sunday Schools.-The Statistics of the Day and Sunday Schools of each Circuit shall be read in the March Quarterly Meeting; but if sufficient time be not then available for the discussion of the Statistics, and for inquiry into the state of the Schools, such discussion and inquiry shall take place in the June Quarterly Meeting.

(4) The Education Schedules, having been duly filled up and presented to the March Quarterly Meeting, shall be sent by the Superintendents to the District Education Secretary, not later than April 10 in each year.

(5) District Sunday-school Committees shall have charge also of the interests of the Day Schools in their respective Districts.

SECONDARY EDUCATION.

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT FOR WESLEYAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. (For Scheme, see Minutes, 1903, pp. 515, 516.)

1. The Conference receives the Report of the proceedings of the Board of Management during the year.

2. The Conference has referred to the Secondary Education Committee the question of establishing all or any of the Wesleyan Middle-class or other Proprietary Schools on a strictly Connexional basis, either as separate institutions, or by bringing all or any of them under a single Connexional control. (For Scheme, see Minutes, 1903, PP. 516, 517.) A Connexional Trust Deed has been approved by the Conference. (Minutes, 1903, p. 515.)

The thanks of the Conference are presented to Sir ROBERT W. PERKS, Bart., M.P., for his services as Treasurer of the Board of Management.

3. The Conference appoints the Rev. MARSHALL Hartley, and re-appoints Sir ROBERT W. PERKS, Bart., M.P., as Treasurers of the Board of Management.