2. In the absence of the Bishop, to take charge of all the traveling and local preachers, and exhorters, in his District.
3. To change, receive, and suspend preachers in his District during the intervals of the Conferences, and in the absence of the Bishop, as the Discipline directs.
4. To be present, as far as practicable, at all the quarterly meetings, and call together the members of the Quarterly Conference, over which he shall also preside.
5. To decide all questions of law which may come up in the regular business of the Quarterly or District Conferences, when submitted to him in writing, subject to an appeal to the President of the next Annual Conference; but in all cases the application of law shall be with the Quarterly or District Conferences, which shall record in its journal all such questions and decisions.
6. To take care that every part of the Discipline be enforced in his District; to promote, by all proper means, the cause of the Epworth League, Church Extension, missions and Sunday-schools, and the publication, at our own press, of tracts and Sunday school books; to inquire carefully at each Quarterly Conference, whether the rules respecting the instruction of children have been faithfully observed; and to report to the Annual Conference the names of all delinquent traveling preachers within his District.
7. To attend the Bishops when present in his District; and to give them, when absent, all necessary information by letter, of the state of his District.
8. To direct the candidates for the ministry to those studies recommended for them by the Bishops.
9. To procure at the fourth Quarterly Conference full statistics from every charge, to be reported at the Annual Conference, in case the preacher in charge fails to make his report.
10. If any preacher absents himself from his circuit, the Presiding Elder shall, as far as possible, fill his place with another preacher.
Ques. 2. Shall the Presiding Elder have the power to employ a preacher who has been rejected at the previous Annual Conference?