Sec. 2. To choose the Presiding Elders, fix their stations, and to change them when he judges it necessary, provided, however, that no Elder shall preside longer than six years consecutively, nor shall be reappointed to a district until he has served, at least, two years, in the pastorate or otherwise. (Mission fields excepted.)
3. To change, receive, and suspend preachers in the intervals of the Conferences, as necessity may require, and as the Discipline directs.
4. To ordain bishops, elders, and deacons; and to see that the names of the persons ordained by him be entered on the journals of the Conference.
5. To decide all questions of law coming before him in the regular business of an Annual Conference: provided, such questions be presented in writing, and with his decisions be recorded on the journals of the Conference. When the Bishop shall have decided a question of law, the Conference shall have the right to determine how far the law thus decided or interpreted is applicable to the case then pending. An Annual Conference shall have a right to appeal from such decision to the College of Bishops, whose decision in such cases shall be final. And no Episcopal decision shall be authoritative except in the case pending, nor shall any such be published until it shall have been approved by the College of Bishops. And each Bishop shall report in writing to the Episcopal College, at an annual meeting to be held by them, such decisions as he has made subsequently to the last preceding meeting; and all such decisions, when approved by the College of Bishops, shall be recorded in a permanent form, and published in such manner as the Bishops shall agree to adopt; and when so approved, recorded, and published, they shall be authoritative interpretations or constructions of the law.
6. To hear and decide appeals of the Quarterly Conferences on questions of law, when he shall be presiding in any Annual Conference; and the question contained in the appeal, together with the Bishop's decision, shall be recorded on the journal of the Annual Conference.
7. To see that the Districts be formed according to his judgment; provided, that no District shall contain more than eighteen appointments.
8. To unite two or more circuits stations or missions together, for Quarterly Conference purposes, allowing the financial interests and pastoral duties of each to remain separate and independent; and to divide a circuit, station, or mission into two or more, when he judges it necessary.
9. To spend at least six months annually from charge to charge, through out his Episcopal District, in order to preach, and to oversee the spiritual and temporal affairs of the Church.
10. To organize Annual Conferences in the interval of the General Conference, when in his judgment it seems wise to do so; and to see that one clerical and one lay delegate be elected from such Conference to the General Conference, according to the provision of the second "Restrictive Rule."
11. To appoint one of their number to preach the quadrennial sermon before the General Conference on the day of its opening.