THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST APRIL, 1899.
9. All matters connected with the religious services of Direction of the Church or the rites and ritual thereof shall be under religions the immediate direction and management of the chaplain services. for the time being, subject, nevertheless, to the control of the said Bishop for the time being.
affairs.
10. The temporal affairs of the Church shall be managed, Management directed, and governed by the Church Body: Provided, of temporal however, that the members of the Church Body shall not be deemed personally liable for any payments of money in excess of that provided or available for the purposes of the Church.
11. So long as an annual sum of not less than five hun- Right of the dred dollars shall be paid to the Church Body for the use troops to use of the Church by the troops for the time constituting the the Church
on payment garrison of this Colony the Church Body shall allow and of certain arrange for the use of the Church by the said troops for sum. one service at least on every Sunday in the year, but shall not be bound to provide any clergyman to perform the same.
Prison and
12. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appropriate Government such proportion of any sum which may be voted by the grant for Legislative Council for general ecclesiastical or religious services at purposes as he may deem proper to the Church Body, and Hospitals. thereupon the chaplain or the senior chaplain for the time being, as the case may be, if such sum is accepted by the Church Body, shall be bound, when so required, to provide for all requisite religious services and ministrations of the Church of England at Victoria Gaol and the Government Civil Hospital.
Regulations.
13. The Church Body may make regulations relating to Making of all or any of the following matters, namely,-
regulations.
(1.) The qualification, election, and tenure of office of the lay members of the Church Body and the mode of filling up casual vacancies among the said mem- bers;
(2.) The holding of meetings of the Church Body and
the conduct of business thereat; (3.) The election and tenure of office of an auditor, and the appointment and tenure of office of a treasurer and secretary, and the mode of filling up casual vacancies among such officers;
(4.) The appointment, tenure of office, salaries, and duties of a chaplain and assistant chaplains, an organist, a verger, and such other officers and ser- vants as the Church Body may think necessary or expedient;
(5.) The keeping of registers of the seatholders and subscribers of the Church, and of baptisms, marriages, and burials;
(6.) The holding of meetings of the scatholders and subscribers of the Church, the right of voting and the taking and recording of the votes at such meetings, and the conduct of business generally thereat; (7.) The appropriation, allotment, arrangement, and
use of the sittings in the Church; (8.) The rents and subscriptions, if any, to be paid for the sittings in the Church and the mode of collec- tion thereof; the fees to be taken for baptisms, marriages, and burials or other services; and the collection and disposition of money offerings, offer- tories, and donations;
(9.) The keeping of accounts of moneys received and
expended by the Church Body;
(10.) The erection and maintenance of mouuments, tablets, or other memorials in the Church or in the precincts thereof, and the fees to be taken therefor; and
(11.) All other matters relating to the affairs of the
Church or of the Church Body.
14.-(1.) No regulations made by the Church Body shall be valid nutil they have been approved at an annual or special meeting of the seatholders and subscribers of the Church.
(2.) All such regulations when so. approved shall bo published in The Gazette.
Miscellaneous Provisions.
Approval and publica- tion of regn. lations.
15. The Church Body shall in its discretion have power Power to sue to sue for all rents, subscriptions, fees, and moneys due or
for moneys due. owing under the Regulations or otherwise.
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