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along the Mississippi River and that part of the State of Illinois north of an east and west line passing along the north line of the City of Bloomington, (also excepting the territory now in the Southwest German Conference,) and east of a north and south line passing through the city of Freeport and that part of the State of Indiana west of the line between the Counties of St. Joseph and Elkhart, and north of the line between Stark and Pulaski Counties. It shall also include Danville, Illinois.

T 401. (12.) CINCINNATI CONFERENCE shall be bounded on the north by a line commencing at the south-west corner of Darke County in the State of Ohio; thence easterly to the north-west corner of the Ohio Conference, so as to leave Bellefontaine and Delaware Districts in the Central Ohio Conference; on the east by the Ohio Conference; on the south by the Ohio River; and on the west by the State of Indiana, except so much of a variation of that line as to attach Elizabeth, Hamilton County, Ohio, to the South-eastern Indiana Conference.

T 402. (13.) COLORADO CONFERENCE shall include Colorado Territory and that

part of the Territory of Wyoming lying north of Colorado.

T403. (14.) COLUMBIA RIVER CONFERENCE shall include all of the State of Oregon lying east of the Cascade Mountains, except Lake County; all of Washington Territory lying east of the Cascade Mount ains, and all of Idaho Territory lying directly north of the State of Nevada.

¶ 404. (15.) DELAWARE CONFERENCE shall include the territory east and north of the Washington Conference.

¶ 405. (16.) DES MOINES CONFERENCE shall include that part of the State of Iowa west and south of the following lines: Beginning at the south-east corner of Wayne County; thence north to the south line of Marshall County, (leaving Knoxville to the Iowa Conference, and Monroe to the Des Moines Conference ;) thence west to the south-east corner of Story County; thence north to the northeast corner of Story County; thence west to the north-east corner of Crawford County; thence south to the north line of township eighty-three; thence west to the east line of Monona County; thence south and west on the line of Monona County to the Missouri River.

T 406. (17.) DETROIT CONFERENCE shall include that part of the State of Michigan east of the principal meridian, and also the Upper Peninsula.

T 407. (18.) EAST GENESEE CONFERENCE shall be bounded on the west by the Genesee River, including the city of Rochester, in the State of New York, on the north by Lake Ontario, on the east by a line beginning at Sodus Bay and running south on the east line of the towns of Sodus and Lyons in Wayne County, and the east line of Ontario County to Seneca Lake, thence southward up said lake to Watkins, thence south to the New York State line, leaving the charges of Watkins, Havana, Millport, and Horseheads in Central New York Conference. It shall also include the territory in the State of Pennsylvania known as the Troy District.

T 408. (19.) EAST GERMAN CONFERENCE shall embrace the German work east of the Alleghany Mountains.

T409. (20.) EAST MAINE CONFERENCE shall include that part of the State of Maine not included in the Maine Conference.

¶ 410. (21.) EAST OHIO CONFERENCE

shall be bounded by a line beginning at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and running easterly to the Pennsylvania State line; thence along said line leaving the Petersburgh Society in the Erie Conference, to the Ohio River; thence down said river to the Muskingum River; thence up said river to the Ohio Canal near Dresden, excluding Marietta and Zanesville; thence along said canal to Lake Erie, including Akron and all of the city of Cleveland lying east of the Cuyahoga River.

T 411. (22.) ERIE CONFERENCE shall be bounded on the north by Lake Erie, on the east by a line commencing at the mouth of the Cattaraugus Creek; thence up said creek to the village of Gowanda, leaving said village in the Western New York Conference; thence to the Alleghany River at the mouth of the Tvnungwant Creek; thence up said creck southward to the ridge dividing between the waters of Clarion and Sinnemahoning Creeks; thence southward to the Mahoning Creek; thence down said creek, exclusive of the Milton Society, but including Finley Society, in the Punxutawney Circuit, and Putneyville

in the Bethlehem Circuit, to the Alleghany River; thence across said river in a north-westerly direction to the Western Reserve line, including Wampuni and Petersburgh; thence along the State line to the place of beginning, including Orangeville and the State line appointments on the Jamestown Circuit.

¶ 412. (23.) FLORIDA CONFERENCE shall include the State of Florida.

T413. (24.) FOOCHOW CONFERENCE shall include the Fokien Province in China.

1414. (25.) GEORGIA CONFERENCE shall consist of the Atlanta, Dalton, and Ogeechee Districts.

T 415. (26.) GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND CONFERENCE shall include the work in Germany and those portions of France and Switzerland where the German language is spoken.

¶ 416. (27.) HOLSTON CONFERENCE shall be bounded on the east by Virginia; on the north by Virginia and Kentucky; on the west by the western summit of the Cumberland Mountains; on the south by Georgia and the Blue Ridge, including that portion of North Carolina not within the North Carolina Conference.

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