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HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO QUARTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 3 of 1850.
BY His Excellency SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE No. 2 of 1847, ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR A CHURCH IN VICTORIA IN THE ISLAND OF HONGKONG," AND ALSO TO ENABLE THE TRUSTEES OF THE SAID CHURCH TO RAISE A SUM OF MONEY NOT EXCEEDING TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
[10th September, 1850.]
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WHEREAS various Circumstances have arisen since the passing of the said Ordinance No. 2 of 1847, rendering it desirable that some of the Provisions therein contained should be amended; and whereas a certain Debt of in or about Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars is now due to certain Workmen and others for the building of the said Church after Payment of the Sum of Six Thousand Nine Hundred Pounds Sterling mentioned in the said Ordinance No. 2 of 1847 :
I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That the said Church shall in future be known and designated in all Proceedings as the Cathedral Church at Victoria, or as Saint John's Cathedral Church at Victoria, and that from and after the passing of this Ordinance, the real Estate or Fee in the said Church and in all the Lands and Hereditaments thereunto belonging shall become and be vested in the existing Trustees of the said Church and their Successors for ever in trust for the purposes of the said Church.
II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if at any time hereafter, by reason of the Non-attendance of Voters, Trustees shall not be elected, in pursuance of the Fourth Section of the said Ordinance No. 2 of 1847, on the last Thursday of each Month of April in every year, then and in such case it shall and may be lawful, at any time within the following Month of May, to and for the Two elected Trustees of the preceding year or the Survivor of them, or in the event of their Death or Absence from the Colony, to and for the Lord Bishop of Victoria, or in his Absence to and for the Colonial Chaplain or Acting Colonial Chaplain, to nominate and appoint any Two duly qualified Persons to act as such Trustees for the then current year of office.
III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the several Powers vested in the Colonial Chaplain by the Fifth Section of the said Ordinance No. 2 of 1847, as Chairman of the Trustees for the said Cathedral Church, be and are hereby vested in and transferred to the Bishop of Victoria and his Successors, or in his or their absence from the Colony, to the Colonial Chaplain or Acting Colonial Chaplain for the time being. Provided always, That in the event of any Meeting of the said Trustees being convened, and that the said Bishop although within the Colony may not be in attendance, then and in such case he may either depute the Colonial Chaplain to attend as such Chairman in his stead, or failing such deputation, that it may be lawful for the Trustees present at such Meeting to elect a Chairman from those Members in attendance.
IV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if at any time it shall appear to the Trustees of the said Church that the One-third Part of the Sittings directed by the Seventh Section of the said Ordinance No. 2 of 1847 to be appropriated as Free Sittings for the use of the poorer classes of the Population, be an unnecessarily large proportion for that purpose, then and in such case it shall be lawful for the Trustees to rent out and set the excess of the said third for one year, and so on