The Doctrines and Discipline of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church / Revised Edition 1918

by Colored Methodist Episcopal Church

Kentucky and Ohio Conference.—Bounded on the North by the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio; West by the L. & N. Railroad, running from Bowling Green to Elizabethtown, thence to the I. C. Railroad to Cecilia, thence to the I. C. Railroad to Louisville; East and South of the State line.

Louisiana Conference.—Bounded on the North by Arkansas; on the East by the Mississippi River; on the West by Texas; on the South by an imaginary line beginning at the mouth of Red River and running West across the State.

Little Rock Conference.—Bounded by all that part of Arkansas South of the Arkansas River, with an imaginary line running to Oklahoma and to Perry County; also including the city of Texarkana. Little Rock Conference embraces all other territory of the state not included in the Arkansas and Southwest Arkansas Conferences.

Memphis-Jackson Conference.—Bounded on the East by the Tennessee River; on the South by the State of Mississippi; on the West by the Miss. River; on the North by a straight line running parallel with the general course of the L. & N. R. R. to the Tennessee River.

Missouri and Kansas Conference.—Bounded on the East by the Southeast Missouri and Illinois Conference; West by the western boundary line of the State of Colorado; North by Wyoming; South by Oklahoma; said Conference to include the State of Colorado.

Mississippi Conference.—Bounded on the North by 34th parallel of North latitude and North Mississippi Conference; on the East by Alabama; on the South by the line beginning at the southwest corner of Kemper County and running between Lauderdale between Neshoba, Newton, Leake, Scott, and North between Scott and Leake to Pearl River; then Pearl River due west to the town of Canton, then west with the south corporation line to the Black River, then northeast with Black River between Madison and Yazoo Counties to Holmes County, then on the line between Yazoo and Holmes to Washington County, then on a line between Washington and Yazoo counties to Sharkey County, then with the line between Sharkey and Yazoo counties to Issaquena and Sharkey to the southwest corner of Sharkey, due west to the post office or town of Arcadia.

Mississippi Mission Conference.—Bounded on the North by the Mississippi Conference; on the East by Alabama; South by the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana; on the West by Louisiana and the Mississippi River.

Muskogee Conference.—Bounded on the East by Arkansas; on the North by the State line of Kansas so as to include Coffeyville; on the West by Texas, and on the South by Oklahoma Conference; Spiro to be included.

New Orleans Conference.—Bounded on the North by the Louisiana Conference; on the East by the Mississippi River; on the West by Texas; on the South by the Gulf of Mexico.

North Alabama Conference.—Bounded on the North by Tennessee; on the East by Georgia; on the West by Mississippi, and on the South by the Central Alabama Conference; and includes all that portion of the State of Alabama not included in the Alabama and Central Alabama Conferences.