XII. ON AUDITS.

It shall be the duty of this Committee to audit the accounts of the Treasurer and such other accounts as may be referred to them by the Board.

GENERAL RULES.

1. The standing committees shall, at their first meeting after election, elect their own chairman, and in his absence the member present whose name is highest on the list shall be chairman pro tem. Each committee shall cause to be recorded correct minutes of all the business brought before it, and the disposition of the same, in a book kept for that purpose, which shall be brought to the regular meetings of the Board; and said committee may hold a regular meeting once in each month, or meet at the call of its chairman, the Corresponding Secretary, Assistant Corresponding Secretary, or Treasurer.

2. Each committee having charge of a particular mission shall make out estimates for the mission under its charge, to be laid before the General Missionary Committee and Board at their joint annual meeting, to guide them in making the estimates for the ensuing year.

3. The Treasurer, Corresponding Secretary, and Assistant Corresponding Secretary shall be ex officio members of all the standing committees; and the Bishop or Bishops having charge of a Foreign Mission shall be ex officio members of the respective committees having charge of the same

4. When any matter is referred to a committee with power, it shall be the duty of the committee to report its final action in the case to the Board, for record in the Minutes of its proceedings.

III-MEETINGS OF THE BOARD, ORDER OF BUSINESS, AND RULES OF DEBATE.

I. MEETINGS OF THE BOARD.

1. The Board shall hold their regular meetings on the third Tuesday of each month, at 3 o'clock P. M., at the Mission Rooms of the Society.

2. The Presiding Officer shall preserve order, keep the speaker to the point under consideration, and appoint committees not otherwise provided for. He shall not take part in debate, nor propose any new measure, unless he first leave the chair; but he may vote as any other member.

3. All the Vice-Presidents attending any meeting of the Society, or of the Board, shall occupy seats on the platform.

4. All meetings of the Board shall open with reading the Scriptures and prayer, and close with prayer or the benediction, under the direction of the Chairman.

5. A Corresponding Secretary, or the Treasurer, or any five managers, may call a special meeting of the Board.

II. ORDER OF BUSINESS

1. Reading the Scriptures and prayer.

2. The minutes of the previous meeting shall be read, and, when approved, signed by the presiding officer.

3. The Treasurer's monthly statement, and that of the Assistant Treasurer.

4. Report of the Corresponding Secretary.

5. Report of the Assistant Corresponding Secretary.

6. Report of the Second Assistant Corresponding Secretary. 7. Reports from the standing committees, in the following order: Africa; South America; China; Western Europe; India and Turkey; Domestic; Finance; Legacies; Publications; Estimates; Anniversary and Annual Meeting; Audits. The reports of each committee to be made by simply reading the minutes of its proceedings, upon which the Board shall take such action as the case may require. When any one of the standing committees may be called in the regular proceedings of the Board, it shall be in order to present any miscellaneous business pertaining to the particular matters of which that committee has charge, as well as to receive and consider any reports from the committee. 8. Reports of special committees.

9. Unfinished business.

10. Miscellaneous business.

The Board shall appoint, in the month of October in each year, the members of the General Missionary Committee to which it is entitled, according to the provision of Art. XI of the Constitution of the Missionary Society.

III. RULES FOR THE TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS.

1. A motion having been made, seconded, and stated from the Chair, shall be considered in possession of the Board, but may be withdrawn by the mover before any order is taken on it. Every motion shall be reduced to writing if the presiding officer, or any other member, require it; and when the question contains several distinct propositions, any member may have the same divided.

2. A motion to amend shall be considered first in order, and shall be decided before the original motion; and a substitute for any pending motion or amendment may be offered, and shall, if it prevail, supersede the original motion or proposed amendment, and may itself be amended.

3. Every member wishing to speak shall rise and address the Chair; and no one shall speak more than once on one question, until every member desiring to speak shall have spoken; and no member shall speak over fifteen minutes without the permission of the Board.

4. Motions to lay on the table, and motions that the previous question be put, shall be taken without debate.

5. When a report is presented by a committee, it shall be considered in possession of the Board, and may be adopted, amended,

recommitted, laid on the table, or otherwise disposed of, as the Board may judge proper.

6. It shall always be deemed out of order to use personal reflections in debate, or to interrupt a speaker, except to explain or call him to order.

7. It shall be deemed out of order for any member to leave the meeting without the permission of the Chair or the Board.

8. A motion to adjourn shall always be considered in order, and shall be taken without debate.

9. A call of the ayes and noes shall be ordered on the demand of any five members present.

10. Any decision of the presiding officer shall be subject to an appeal to the Board, and such appeal shall be decided without debate; but the presiding officer may assign his reasons for his decision.

11. When a question has been once put and decided, it shall be in order for any member who voted in the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof; but no motion for reconsideration shall be taken more than once.

IV.-PUBLICATION AND AMENDMENT OF BY-LAWS.

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1. The Charter, the Constitution of the Society, and By-laws shall be published with each Annual Report.

2. The Board of Managers shall not make, alter, or amend any by-law, except at the regular monthly meeting thereof, nor at the same meeting at which such by-law, alteration, or amendment is proposed.

NEW MISSION ROOMS.

For years back our mission premises in Mulberry-street were an offense to the Church. Our chief members and friends from the country, as well as those in the cities, looked in upon us busy at our great work, and felt mortified and distressed. So large and prominent had the operations of our Missionary Society become, that the country generally took an interest in the movement to obtain new and more commodious Mission Rooms. This was done in the fore part of the current year, (1869.) The beautiful suite of rooms is in the magnificent iron building at the northwest corner of Broadway and Eleventh-street. They were fully ready for use when the General Missionary Committee assembled at their Annual Meeting, November 11th. The Board of Managers conceived the beautiful idea of presenting these Rooms for use to the General Missionary Committee, which represents the missionary interests of the whole Church.

This presentation took place in the beautiful BOARD ROOM, in the presence of the officers of the Society, the Board of Managers, and a large number of the principal friends of missions. The venerable BISHOP MORRIS, the President of the Society, was in the chair. E. L. FANCHER, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents, was charged by the Board with making the presentation ADDRESS, which he did as follows:

MR. PRESIDENT, VENERABLE AND REVEREND FATHERS AND BRETHREN: The Board of Managers of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, through their Committee, have assigned to me the duty of appearing before you on this occasionyou, the Bishops of the Church, and the General Missionary Committee to present, on behalf of the Board, these new Mission