ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1847.
Church.
substitute such higher assessment, as by them shall be deemed sufficient, to meet such costs and charges, and such higher rate shall thereupon become due and payable and shall continue to be charged and collected for the same period that the rate for which it is so substituted would otherwise have been in force.
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Subscribers of ten pounds
priority of choice of sittings.
9. And it is further enacted, that every subscriber towards the building of the said church to the amount of not less than ten pounds sterling shall have a right in the first instance to become a renter of a pew or sitting in preference to any other person who shall not have so subscribed; and such subscribers shall amongst themselves have priority in the choice of pews or sittings not exceeding six sittings, according to the amount of their subscriptions—the subscriber to the larger amount to have the prior choice, and the choice of subscribers to an equal amount to be determined by lot.
10. And be it further enacted, that any person having engaged any pew or sitting, and continuing to pay rent for the same according to the rate fixed, and also conducting himself or herself in the said church so as not wilfully or maliciously to disturb the performance of public worship, or to molest any part of the congregation attending the same, shall not be, under any pretence whatever, removed or ejected without his or her own consent, from the occupation of such pew or sittings at all times when the said church shall be open for the performance of public worship, the ministration of any sacrament, or other rite or ceremony, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland. Provided nevertheless, that if any person having engaged any pew or sittings in the said church under agreement to pay for the same according to the rate or rent assessed thereupon, shall suffer such rent to fall into arrear, and to continue unpaid for three months after the same shall have been demanded by the trustees or by any person empowered by them, or the major part of them; or if any person having engaged as aforesaid any pew or sitting shall refuse to pay for the same such increased rate of rent as the trustees, according to the provisions herein before described, shall have assessed and affixed; or if any person engaging and occupying any such pew or sittings, and continuing to pay the rent assessed upon the same, shall, by any unsuitable noise, gesture, or deportment, wilfully and irreverently interrupt the celebration of public worship, or shall designedly and habitually disturb any part of the congregation within the said church,
Party having sitting not to
engaged a
be disturbed.
Proviso.
Person disturbing
the congregation
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