Art. 7. The Bishops shall report annually to the Mission Board, the number of Missionaries employed, the amount of support allowed each, the number of Missions established, the number of members, and the cost of maintaining each point. Their reports shall be written and shall embrace a statement of the condition and prospect of each Mission.
Art. 8. The funds of the Mission Board shall be deposited in bank in the name of the Board of Missions of the C. M. E. Church, subject to checks drawn by the Secretary and signed by the President.
Art. 9. Any Annual or District Conference, church, Sunday School, Epworth League Chapter, or individual, may assume in part or in whole, the support of a Missionary, Mission, or Mission School, which may be established or approved by the Mission Board, provided, that in all cases, the money be sent to the Mission Board For application.
Art. 10. Presiding Elders shall see that each pastor organize a Missionary Society or Societies, in his charge encourage the idea and spirit of Missions among the people, see that each society is supplied with literature, and preach a sermon on Missions in every charge in his District at least once a year.
Art. 11. The Mission Board shall form an auditing committee from its own membership, which committee shall audit the books of the Secretary and see that they are properly kept.
Art. 12. All laws in conflict herewith, are repealed.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY BOARD
Art. 1. This Society shall be known as the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America.
Art. II. The object of this Society shall be to enlist the members of our Church in the work of giving aid to mission points and mission preachers in all our conferences; to help to build parsonages and suitable houses of worship; to foster the cause of religious instruction among the neglected poor, and to otherwise aid the cause of the blessed Master.
Art. III. This Society shall be controlled by the Annual Conference in whose bounds it may operate, which shall elect its own officers and regulate its own affairs, provided it does not interfere with any of the work that may be planned by the Mission Board.