Wesleyan Methodists (Appointments during the War) Act, 1917
[2nd August 1917.] WHEREAS by deed of declaration or deed poll of the Reverend John Wesley, dated the twenty-eighth day of February, seventeen hundred and eighty-four, provision was made as to the yearly conference of the people called Methodists, and as to the powers of the said conference: And whereas by the eleventh regulation contained in the said deed it was provided as follows, viz.:— "Eleventh, the Conference shall not nor may nominate or appoint any person to the use and enjoyment of ...