CHAPTER XXXI.

RESTORATION OF CREDENTIALS

I. TRAVELING ELDERS AND DEACONS.

1. When any traveling Elder or Deacon is deprived of his credentials of ordination by expulsion or otherwise, they shall be filed with the papers of the Annual Conference of which he was a member.

2. Should he, at any future time, give satisfactory evidence to said Conference of his amendment or innocence, and procure a certificate of the Quarterly Conference of the circuit or station where he resides, or of the Annual Conference which may have admitted him on trial, recommending him to the Annual Conference, of which he was formerly a member, the restoration of his credentials, the said Conference may restore them.

II. LOCAL ELDERS OR DEACONS.

1. When any local Elder or Deacon is deprived of his credentials of ordination by expulsion or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Presiding Elder to require them of him, and to file them with the papers of the Annual Conference within the limits of which the said Local Preacher resides.

2. Should he, at any future time, produce to the Annual Conference a certificate of his restoration by the Quarterly Conference, signed by the President and Secretary thereof, his credentials may be restored to him.

=PART VII.= SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY, BUILDING CHURCHES AND PARSONAGES— SECURING AND TRANSFERRING CHURCH PROPERTY