Clergy Rates for 1902 by H. E. Osborne

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 17, 1901

Clergy Rates for 1902.

By H. E. Osborne

With the close of the present year, the railroad lines of the Clergy Bureau of the Central Passenger Association will discontinue the issuance of trip permits. Our workers will please note the fact, and refrain from seeking such permits after January 1. The Joint Annual Clergy Certificate will still be issued to those entitled to the privilege of traveling at clerical rates.

Former restrictions defining the territory in which annual certificates may be granted, have been modified, and for the information of all, the following is presented from the advice of the commissioner:—

“Heretofore the annual certificate has been restricted to persons residing within the States of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, western New York, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and certain points in the Province of Ontario, but beginning with Jan. 1, 1902, the issuance of annual certificates will be made general, with the exception that applications will not be favorably recognized from the State of New York, east of Niagara Falls, Tonawanda, Buffalo, Salamanca; States of New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland; State of Pennsylvania east of Warren, Oil City, Franklin, Allegheny, and Pittsburg; State of West Virginia, east of Wheeling, Bellair, Parkersburg, and Charleston; State of Virginia, north of Charlottesville, Gordonsville, and Alexandria; and the District of Columbia.”

General officers of our denominational organizations, whose duties require them to travel in the territory of the Central Passenger Association, will not be debarred because of residence in the excluded territory, if they otherwise come within the rules of the Clergy Bureau.

The rules adopted for 1902 by the Clergy Bureau of the Western Passenger Association remain essentially the same as in 1901.

H. E. OSBORNE, Transportation Agent.