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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 1, 1911.
Votes.
Management of temporal
affairs.
Powers of Committee of Manage- ment.
Regulations
to be valid until dis- approved.
Each such Seatholder shall be entitled to one vote and the vote of two-thirds in number of the said Scatholders so attending and voting shall be deemed to be the vote of, and shall bind all the Scatholders--being Subscribers---of the said Church.
The Chairman of such meeting shall be the person ap- pointed by a majority of the persons present at such meet- ing and entitled to vote.
No votes shall be given by proxy but votes may be given by ballot or otherwise at any such meeting as such meeting shall direct.
In case of equality of votes the Chairman shall have the casting vote but shall not otherwise vote on any question before the meeting.
12. The temporal affairs of the said Church shall be managed, directed and governed by the Committee of Management provided however that the members of such Committee shall not be deemed personally liable for any payments of money in excess of that provided or available for the purposes of the said Church.
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13. The Committee of Management may ʼn ake regulations relating to all or any of the following matters namely :--
(1.) The qualification, election and teure of office of the members of the Committee of Manage- ment of the said Church,
(2.) The holding of meetings of the Committee of Management and the conduct of the business thereat.
(3.) The temporary appointment of a Minister or Assistant Minister during the absence from any cause of the incumbent of the post.
(4.) The election and tenure of office of an auditor and the filling up of ensual vacancies among the Committee of Management.
(5.) The appointment, tenure of office, salary and duties of any organisi, verger or other officer or servant as the Committee of Management may think necessary or expedient.
(6.) The keeping of registers of Communicants, Sentholders and Subscribers of the said Church and of baptisms, marriages and burials. (7.) The holding of meetings of the Seatholders. and Subscribers of the said Church, the right of voting and the taking and recording of the votes at such meetings (where the same is not specially provided for by this Ordinance) and the conduct of business specially thereat. (8.) The appropriation, allotment, arrangement and
use of the sittings in the said Church. (9.) The rents and subscriptions, if any, to be paid for the sittings in the said Church and the mode of collection thereof, the fees to be taken for baptisms, marriages and burials or other ser- vices and the collection and disposition of money offerings, offertories and donations. (10.) The keeping of accounts of moneys received and expended by the Committee of Manage-
ment.
(11.) The erection and maintenance of monuments, tablets or other memorials in the said Church or in the precincts thereof, and the fees to be taken therefor; and
(12.) All other matters relating to the affairs of the said Church or of the Committee of Management otherwise than where specially provided for by
this Ordinance,
14. All regulations made by the Committee of Manage- ment shall be valid unless or until they have been disap- proved at an annual or special meeting of the Seatholders and Subscribers of the said Church,
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