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No. 57 of 1911.
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No. 57 of 1911.
UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION.
Vesting of moveable
property and monuments in corpora- tion.
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Committee
of Manage. ment,
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Appointment
of the trustees, and shall also be signed by the secretary and by two or more of the trustees so present, and such signing shal! be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing thereof.
7. All books, deeds, papers, and other documents hitherto kept at the Union Church or belonging or appertaining thereto, and all moneys belonging or due or owing to the Church, and all other the property of the said Church, shall be the property of the said cor- poration, and all monuments, tablets and memorials shall be under the care and custody of the said corporation.
8. A committee of management (hereinafter called the com- mittee) including a secretary and treasurer, shall be elected annually at a meeting of the seatholders (being subscribers) of the said Union Church, to be held as herein provided, and those elected shall appoint one of their number to be chairman, and shall have power to add to their number.
9. The seatholders being subscribers may appoint one or more of ministers. minister or ministers to perform and carry on divine worship and
the services usual in a Protestant Evangelical Christian Church.
Direction of religious services.
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Meetings of this seat- holders being subscriber.
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10. All matters connected with the religious services of the said Church shall be under the immediate direction of the minister or senior minister subject, nevertheless, to the control of the com- mmittee.
11. All meetings shall be convened by the minister or senior minister or by the committee or by the said corporation or by one- fifth in number of the seat holders (being subscribers) of the said Church entitled to vote at such meeting, by notice announcing the place, day and hour of the meeting and the business or matter to be transacted or considered, and such notice shall be given at each service held on the premises on the two Lord's days immediately preceding such meeting at the usual time for giving notices during divine service.
The meeting shall be held not earlier than the Wednesday next following the second of such two Lord's days.
The only persons who shall be entitled to attend and vote at such meeting shall be those who, whether male or female, have attained the age of 21 years, and have been seatholders and subscribers of the
* As amended by No. 18 of 1912.
As amended by No. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912.
UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION,
said Church during at least the 6 months preceding the meeting, and have held one or more sittings in the said Church and sub- scribed and paid for or in respect of the same to the maintenance of divine worship in the said Church.
Each such seatholder shall be entitled to one vote, and the vote of two-thirds in number of the said seatholders so attending and voting shall be deemed to be the vote of, and shall bind all the seat- bolders (being subscribers) of the said Church.
The chairman of such meeting shall be the person appointed by a majority of the persons present at such meeting and entitled to
vote.
No votes shall be given by proxy, but votes may be given by ballot Votes. 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 meet- ing.
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12. The temporal affairs of the said Church shall be managed, Management directed, and governed by the committee, provided, however, that of temporal the members of the 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.
13. The committee may make regulations relating to the follow- Powers of ing matters :-
(1) the qualification, election, and tenure of office of the members of the committee;
(2) the holding of meetings of the committee 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 casual vacancies among the committee;
(5) the appointment, tenure of office, salary, and duties of any organist, verger, or other officer or servant as the committee may think necessary or expedient;
*As sumended by No. 17 of 1912 and No. 48 of 1912 Supp. Sched. As suended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of
1912.
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