CHAPTER XXXII.

I. SUPPORT OF PASTORS

1. Every minister, who by the rules and usages of the Church is a claimant on its funds, shall, as far as practicable, have his claim estimated by those who are to pay it, or by an agent authorized to act for them.

2. The salary and traveling expenses of preachers on circuits and stations shall be estimated by their respective Boards of Stewards.

3. The Stewards shall report to each Church meeting the whole amount to be raised, and that part of it which each congregation is expected to pay. The Church Conference shall adopt its own method of raising this money.

II. SUPPORT OF PRESIDING ELDERS

1. The salary and traveling expenses of Presiding Elders shall be estimated by the Joint Board of Finance.

2. The Joint Board of Finance shall apportion the amount allowed among the different pastoral charges of the District, whose Boards of Stewards shall add the sum, thus apportioned, to the amounts agreed on to be raised for their preachers, and its collection shall be provided for in the same way.

III. SUPPORT OF BISHOPS

The Bishops shall be supported according to the following plan:

1. The allowance of the Bishops for salary and traveling expenses shall be estimated by the Committee on Finance of the General Conference and the sum thus allowed shall be paid out of the General Fund by the Book Agent.

2. The Book Agent shall pay each Bishop one fourth of the sum allowed per annum, quarterly, according to the provision in the Financial Plan.

3. The Bishops who shall have been placed on the retired list, shall be paid the sum of six hundred ($600.00) dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly as other Bishops.

4. Those Bishops who are unable to do full work shall be paid the same amount and in the same way as those who are efficient and actively engaged in the work.

5. In case of the death of a retired Bishop, the remainder of his allowance for that year shall be paid to his widow.

6. The Book Agent shall pay to the widows of deceased Bishops twenty ($20.00) dollars per month, to be paid quarterly as long as she remains a widow in good standing in the C. M. E. Church. If she should die before her children, they shall receive the same allowance until they become fourteen years of age.

IV. SUPPORT OF THOSE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

All officers appointed by the General Conference, and not otherwise provided for by law, shall have their salaries fixed by the Joint Board of Finance of the Conference of which they are members, or within the bounds of which the work assigned them by the General Conference lies; and be paid from the proceeds of their office, or by such other means as the Conference may devise.