Convention; and if he be not present, the Convention shall be called to order by the Secretary, and a presiding officer elected from among the attending presbyters.

ARTICLE VI.

OF THE SECRETARY.

A Secretary shall be annually chosen, and continue in office until a successor be appointed. He shall keep a true and correct journal of the proceedings of the Convention, attest its public acts, preserve its records, and give notice to each minister and vestry, at least one month beforehand, of the time and place appointed for any stated or special meeting of the convention.

ARTICLE VII.

OF THE TREASURER.

A Treasurer shall be annually appointed by the Convention, who shall continue in office until a successor is elected. It shall be his duty to receive and disburse all funds, which may at any time belong to the Convention except such as are, by law, under the control of the Trustees of the Diocese, and lay before each annual Convention a statement of the condition of all such funds, accompanied by necessary vouchers.

ARTICLE VIII.

OF VOTING IN CONVENTION.

The clergy and Lay Delegates in Convention shall deliberate in one body, and vote as such; but any two clergymen, or the delegations from any two parishes, may call for a separate vote of each order, in which case a majority in both orders shall be necessary to a decision.

ARTICLE IX.

OF SPECIAL MEETINGS.

The ecclesiastical authority shall have power to call a special meeting of the Convention at such time and place as the authority calling it shall determine: provided, that no such meeting shall be held until at least thirty days after notice shall have been sent, by mail, to each clergy and vestry in the Diocese; and at such special meeting no other business shall be transacted than that stated in the notice calling the same.

ARTICLE X.

OF THE ELECTION OF A BISHOP.

The election of a Bishop or Assistant Bishop of this Diocese, shall be in the following manner: The two orders shall separate, and the order of the clergy shall choose, by ballot, some fit and qualified presbyter for that office; and thereupon such choice shall be communicated to the lay delegates; and if, on ballot, the choice so made is approved by the lay order, the person so chosen and approved shall be declared duly elected. In the above-mentioned election, a majority in both orders shall determine a choice: provided, that two-thirds of all the clergy entitled to vote, and delegations from two-thirds of the parishes or churches entitled to representation, be present; otherwise, two-thirds of the votes of each order present shall be necessary to determine a choice.

ARTICLE XI.

OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE.

SEC. 1. The standing Committee shall be elected by ballot at the Annual Convention, and continue in office until their successors are duly elected.

It shall be composed of three presbyters of the Diocese, and three laymen, who shall be communicants of the church in regular standing. At their first meeting, which shall always be within ten days after their election, upon the call of the Secretary of the Convention, they shall appoint one of the presbyters of their own body to be their president, and another of their number to be secretary, who shall keep a journal of their proceedings, subject to the inspection of the Bishop and the Convention. He shall, also, preserve all letters and papers addressed to the Standing Committee, attest their public acts, and present to each Annual Convention an abstract of the minutes of their proceedings since the former Convention.

SEC. 2. The Standing Committee shall have power to fill vacancies in their body during the recess of Convention.

ARTICLE XII.

OF DEPUTIES TO THE GENERAL CONVENTION.

At each annual Convention, four presbyters and four laymen (who shall always be communicants in regular standing

in the Church,) shall be chosen, by ballot, to represent this Diocese as Deputies in the General Convention.

There shall also be appointed, in the same manner, an equal number of Supplemental Deputies, out of which number the ecclesiastical authority shall have power to fill vacancies which may occur among the said Deputies before, or at, the sitting of the General Convention.

It shall be the duty of every Deputy, or Supplemental Deputy, thus appointed, if he declines said appointment, to give seasonable notice thereof to the ecclesiastical authority of the Di

ocese.

ARTICLE XIII.

OF ALTERING THE CONSTITUTION.

The Constitution shall not be subject to alteration in any article except at an annual meeting of the Convention, and by a vote of two-thirds of the members present; nor unless such alteration shall have been proposed and approved at the annual meeting previous to its adoption, and published at large in the journals of the Convention.

CANONS

OF THE

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

IN

THE DIOCESE OF INDIANA.

CANON I.

OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS.

SECTION 1. Upon the opening of the Convention, the Bishop or other presiding officer shall appoint the following Standing Committees, consisting of three persons each, one of whom, at least, shall be a clergyman:

1. A Committee on Credentials of Lay Delegates, who shall report at the opening of the afternoon session.

2. A Committee on Accounts.

3. A Committee on Unfinished Business.

4. A Committee on the admission of New Parishes.

5. A Committee on Canons.

SEC. 2. The business shall then proceeds as follows:

1. The election of a Secretary, who shall have power to appoint an assistant.

2. The Annual Address of the Bishop, unless he shall prefer another time for its delivery.

3. Miscellaneous Business.

CANON II.

OF THE ADMISSION OF PARISHES INTO UNION.

Any association of ten or more adults consenting to adopt and be governed by the Constitution and Canons of the

Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, and the Corstitution and Canons of this Diocese, assuming some name by which their church or parish may be designated, and appointing a Vestry to manage its temporal concerns, may be received into union with this Convention.

CANON III.

OF THE ELECTION OF WARDENS AND VESTRYMEN.

SEC. 1. On Easter Monday in every year, the Pew-holders or parishioners of each church, as hereinafter declared, shall elect wardens and vestrymen of the same, the whole to consist of not more than nine members or less than three, who shall have power to fill vacancies in their own body, and shall continue in office until their successors are duly elected: of the time and place of which election, at least ten days' notice shall be given, by the Rector, on an occasion of Divine Service, or, in the absence of the Rector, or, in case of a vacancy in the Rectorship, by a written notice posted at the door of the usual place of worship, by order of the Vestry, and signed by their Secretary, which notice shall remain till the day of election.

SEC. 2. In all parish meetings, the following description of persons shall have the right to vote:

1. Male communicants in regular standing, and not less than twenty-one years of age, who have been communicants for three months previous to the meeting.

2. Male holders or lessees of pews, not less than twenty-one years of age, not being communicants under ecclesiastical censure, and who have held their pews for three months previous to the meeting, and have paid for them.

3. Each male person, not a member of another communion, and having the qualifications required in the preceding paragraph who has subscribed to the support of the church three months previous to the election, and has paid his subscription.

SEC. 3. But the Wardens, or Rector, may require the declaration of the persons above described, that they are attached to the doctrines, dicipline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

SEC. 4. The method of conducting such election shall be as follows, viz: The meeting when assembled shall be presided.