Art. 12. There shall be a Commission on Educational standards, of six practical educators appointed with the Secretary of Education to arrange and protect the standards of our Church institutions. They shall prescribe the minimum requirements to be demanded in the several courses given in our schools. The Commission shall carefully work out a plan for the classification of our schools and shall report within one year to the Board of Education, its work. It shall then be the duty of the General Conference Board of Education through its Secretary to inspect the financial condition and equipment, the amount and quality of work done in all educational institutions, of the church, to classify them as Grammar School, High School, Academy, Junior College, College, Theological Seminary according to the relation of its equipment and the work done by it to the standards established by the commission on education. The Commission on Educational Standards shall be elected by the General Conference on nomination by the Bishops and Secretary of Education.
Art. 13. The Board shall meet immediately after its election upon call of the Corresponding Secretary of Education and elect a President, Vice-President, Recording Secretary and Treasurer.
Art. 14. All laws and parts of laws in our Discipline in conflict with this enactment are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER XLIII.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
In order to perfect Bible knowledge for the moral and religious training of the children of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America; the General Conference of the C. M. E. Church directs that there shall be a Sunday School Department which shall be under the general supervision of a General Sunday School Board, to be authorized by the General Conference, whose chief officer shall be that of Editor, and said department shall be located in the Publishing House, wherever settled, etc.
1. The Sunday School Department shall include all of the Sunday-schools in the C. M. E. Church, and shall be subject to such rules and regulations as The General Sunday School Board and the General Conference may from time to time direct.
2. The purpose of said Department shall be to educate our young people in all of the phases of Sunday School training and service, to give course and impetus to a systematic study of the Holy Bible, and to supply the Sunday Schools with the proper literature including Catechisms and tracts, and to assist needy Sunday Schools whenever practical.
3. The General Conference shall elect an Editor for the Sunday School Department, whose term of office shall be four years, and until his successor is elected. The Editor shall be the executive officer of the Sunday School Department, and shall edit all Sunday School literature comprising Lessons, Leaves, Books, Tracts, Magazines, Lithographs and etc. It shall be the duty of the Editor to approve or disapprove of whatever Sunday School helps that may be suggested by the General Sunday School Board for use in our Sunday Schools.
4. His salary shall be fixed by the General Sunday School Board per annum plus his necessary traveling expenses. The General Sunday School Board shall fix a salary or wage for a stenographer, or other necessary help of the Department.
5. The Editor shall render an annual report to the General Sunday School Board, and an annual report to each Annual Conference in the connection as to the amount of literature used, and number of Sunday Schools using the Sunday School supplies of our own Church, within its bounds, and a quadrennial report to the General Conference.