Most of the locations that have taken place under the
rule have been reversed, on appeal, for one cause or
other; and the persons which the Annual Conferences
have sought thus to rid themselves of, have beeri re-
turned upon them by the General Conference. Of the
four appeals which came up in 1840, only one appears
to have been entertained ; and the act of the Annual
Conference in that instance was reversed, because "the
decision appears, from the journals of said Conference,
to be defective for the want of documentary evidence."
(Journal, p. 85.) An appeal to the General Conference
of 1854 was disposed of upon this ground : " That in-
asmuch as the records do not show the cause for which
the appellant was located, or the evidence introduced in
the case, but simply the fact of his location, therefore,
the Conference being unprepared to decide on the mer-
its of the case, do remand it back for a new hearing."
(Journal, p. 250.) In 1858 the act of an Annual Con-
ference was reversed because "the location was upon
testimony that looks to the fact of unacceptableness,
without reference to the cause producing this state of
things ; and the locating resolution places the fact of
unacceptableness upon diflerent ground from that given
in the law of the Discipline bearing on the case."
(Journal, p. 419.)

It may be well doubted whether the location of a
traveling preacher, under this provision, is, or was ever
designed to be, an appealable case. No charge of im-
morality is brought against the person thus disposed of.
He is returned to the honorable ranks from whence he



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