| 352 $18,188; total liabilities $4,849.48; balance net capital $13,338.52.
The committee on representation presented a report through its chairman, Joseph Smith. After much discussion and a few amendments, it was adopted, reading as follows:
To the Conference in Session Assembled: Your committee on representation, beg leave and report:
Whereas, The method and fact of church representation in General Conferences, as at present practiced, seem not to be within the law, and are made inadequate to secure the common consent contemplated in that law. Therefore,
Resolved, That a more clearly defined method of representation should be adopted, and that to secure that method your committee recommend the adoption of the following rules on representation:
1. That the general officers of the church, known as the Presidency, the Twelve, the High Council, the Seventy, and the Bishopric (proper), are ex officio members of conference, and entitled to a voice and vote as representatives of the spiritual authorities of the church at large.
2. That high priests, elders, and priests engaged in the ministry and under missionary appointment of General Conference, or the general authorities of the church, and not laboring in and by the authority of organized districts, are hereby declared to be entitled to voice and vote in General Conferences when present.
3. That organized districts be authorized to appoint from their members, at their last quarterly session of district conference next preceding the session of the annual and semiannual General Conferences, delegates to said annual and semiannual sessions, who shall be entitled to represent said districts, which delegates so appointed shall be declared members of said General Conferences entitled to voice and vote.
Provided, That the choice and appointment by said districts shall be made by a majority of those present and voting, in regular or called session of district conference, of the holding of which due notice shall have been given, as to time and place within the district, to each and every branch composing said district; together with a statement of any important business or action that is to be presented to, or likely to be had by said general session, affecting said district, and to which their consent or denial is desired, that instructions to said delegates may be given as to their action.
And provided further, That the only qualifications to eligibility to the office of delegate from district to General Conference shall be membership and good standing.
Provided further, That not less than one, nor more than five delegates may be sent from any one district; but that said delegate, or delegates, shall be entitled to voice and vote in such General Conferences to which
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