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Doctrine and rules of society.
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4. Nothing in this Act contained shall authorize any alteration in the “doctrine” of the Society, as set forth in Part 2 of the “General Principles of the Methodist Constitution,” (a copy of which is set forth in the schedule to this Act annexed,) but the design and discipline, as set forth in Parts 1. and 3. of the said General Principles, and the laws, rules, and regulations by or under which the qualification and election or appointment of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurers, travelling preachers, local preachers, stewards, leaders, visitors of the sick, trustees, and other officers, and the admission or cesser of members of the Society, have been regulated, and the Conference, the district meetings, leaders’ meetings, band meetings, classes, and other meetings, and the business thereof, and the rights, powers, and functions of such president, vice-president, secretary, treasurers, travelling preachers, local preachers, stewards, leaders, visitors of the sick, trustees, and other officers as aforesaid, or of any conference or meeting, have been constituted, regulated, managed, conducted, or defined, and generally the existing design, discipline, laws, rules, and regulations of the Society, shall be and continue to be the design, discipline, laws, rules, and regulations of the Society, except so far as the same may be amended, altered, or repealed, or any new design, discipline, laws, rules, or regulations may be hereafter made according to the practice or rule existing in the Society before the passing of this Act, or by any vote of the Conference as herein-after provided.
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