4. To try, suspend, expel, or acquit any local preacher in the circuit, station, or mission, against whom charges may be brought.
5. To license proper persons to exhort and to preach; provided that no person shall thus be licensed to either preach or exhort who, for any cause, marries a divorced woman; to renew their license annually, when, in its judgment, their gifts, grace, and usefulness will warrant a renewal. All votes to license preachers shall be taken by ballot.
6. To recommend suitable candidates to the Annual Conference for deacon's or elder's orders in the local connection, and for admission on trial and re-admission into the traveling connection: Provided (a) that no one shall be admitted or allowed to remain in the traveling connection who marries a divorced woman: Provided (b) that no person shall be recommended to the Annual Conference for admission on trial, or for ordination, without first being examined in the Quarterly Conference on the subject of doctrine and discipline, and giving satisfactory evidence of his ability to read the word of God. All votes to recommend preachers for admission on trial, or re-admission into the traveling connection, or for deacon's or elder's orders shall be taken by ballot.
7. To elect trustees, stewards, and stewardesses, superintendents of Sunday-schools, according to the discipline, for the circuit, station, or mission, and of the stewards, to appoint one a Recording Steward.
8. To see that all its proceedings be faithfully recorded, by a secretary chosen for the purpose, in a book to be kept by the Recording Steward; the records of each session being signed by the President and Secretary.
Ques. 5. What order of business shall be observed in the Quarterly Conference?
Ans. After religious service, let the roll be called, and the following inquiries be made—
1. Are there any appeals?
2. Are there any complaints?
3. Is there a written report from—