IN THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, is a body consisting of one lay member from each charge within the bounds of all Annual Conference, appointed by the Quarterly Conferenice, and meeting on the third day of the session of the Annual Conference preceding the General Conference, to elect two lay representatives to the latter body. The latter lay delegates must be at least twenty-five years of age, and church- members for five consecutive years previous to election. (See LAY REPRESENTATION).