CHAPTER XXXIX.

WOMAN'S MISSIONARY BOARD

Art. 1. This Society shall be known as the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America.

Art. II. The object of this Society shall be to enlist the members of our Church in the work of giving aid to mission points and mission preachers in all our conferences; to help to build parsonages and suitable houses of worship; to foster the cause of religious instruction among the neglected poor, and to otherwise aid the cause of the blessed Master.

Art. III. This Society shall be controlled by the Annual Conference in whose bounds it may operate, which shall elect its own officers and regulate its own affairs, provided it does not interfere with any of the work that may be planned by the Mission Board.

Art. IV. The officers of the Woman's Home Missionary Society shall be elected annually, and shall consist of a President, Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, and five managers, who shall be an Executive Board for the Annual Conference, controlling all the missions that may be under the supervision of the Annual Conference.

Art. V. The funds of the Society shall be derived from membership fees, mite boxes, contributions, card devices, donations, and such other means as may be adopted by the Annual Conference.

Art. VI. Each Annual Conference shall have full control of all money that may be raised by the Woman's Home Missionary Society, and shall retain the same to be used as the Conference may see fit.

Art. VII. The Annual Conference Boards shall arrange constitutions and by-laws governing the Woman's Home Missionary Society within their bounds, and shall also arrange for Juvenile Societies to be formed among the children, and they shall send a report of their work each year to the Secretary of Missions for publication.

Art. VIII. There shall be held in each District a Missionary Convention of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, which shall be under the supervision of the Presiding Elder, and composed of the preachers in charge of circuits, stations and missions, and one representative from each society formed in the District. The time for holding this Convention shall be fixed by the Presiding Elder, and the place by the Convention.