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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 20, 1864

Question.

In the constitution of the General Conference we read : "Each State Conference shall be entitled to one delegate in the General Conference, and one additional delegate for every twenty delegates in the State Conference." My question is, How many delegates must a State Conference have in order that it may send two delegates to the General Conference?

AnswER.—Twenty. A State Conference is entitled to one delegate in the General Conference, without any reference to the number of delegates of which such State Conference is composed; and after that one delegate for every twenty delegates composing the State Conference. Thus if a State Conference consists of twenty delegates from the churches, that Conference can send two delegates to the General Conference; if consisting of forty delegates, three in Gen. Conference; if of sixty, four, and so on.