Decision Number 105

Decision

The answer to the question asked, therefore, is: the words "upon recommendation of the Committee on Conference Relations" do not mean that the Conference cannot grant supernumerary relation for more than five years if it wishes to do so in spite of the contrary recommendation of its Committee. The right to vote "on all matters relating to the character and Conference relations of its ministerial members" is specifically reserved to the Annual Conference by the Constitution and cannot be abridged by any act of the General Conference. (See Paragraph 22, 1952 Discipline.)