24 COLONIAL ORINANCES .
Pounds Sterling, to be applied under the Direction of Trustees, to be
appointed as hereinafter provided, to the Building of a Church in
Proviso.
Victoria ; provided that no such issue shall be made until One-third
of the whole estimated Cost thereof shall have been raised by Sub-
scription and lodged in the General Treasury.
Two Trustees to be II. And it is further enacted, That before any Sum or Sums of
elected by Subscribers,
and Four nominated Money shall be issued as aforesaid, the Parties subscribing shall by
by the Governor. Plurality of Votes elect from among themselves Two Persons to act
as Trustees, and such Election shall take Place at a Meeting of the
Subscribers, of the Time and Place of holding which Meeting Ten
Days' Notice shall have been previously published in the Public
Papers of this Colony ; and upon Intimation being given to the
Governor of the Election of such Two Persons as aforesaid, the
said Governor shall thereupon nominate, in the Proportion of the
Government Share of the Expense of the Building, Four other Persons
to act as Trustees ; and the Real Estate in the said Church, and in
all Lands and Hereditaments thereunto belonging, shall be thereupon
conveyed to the said Trustees so elected and nominated, and their
Successors to be elected and nominated as hereinafter provided, for
ever, in Trust for the Purposes of the said Church.
Papers, Books, & c., III. And it is further enacted, That upon the Election and
to be delivered to Trus- Nomination of Trustees as aforesaid, all Deeds, Books, Plans, Papers,
tees.
and Vouchers relating to the said Church, and all and any Sums of
Money, Donations, or Subscriptions, given or subscribed for the pur-
pose aforesaid, shall be delivered over to the said Trustees .
Trustees to be elect- IV. And it is further enacted, That the said Trustees so elected
ed Annually.
and nominated as aforesaid shall continue to be and to act as Trus-
tees until the last Thursday in the Month of April, One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Forty-Eight ; and upon such Day such Trustees
shall cease to have any Power or Authority so to act ; and Two
Persons shall be elected at a General Meeting to be held on that
Day, and Four other Persons shall be nominated by the Governor
as soon as convenient thereafter to be Trustees of the said Church
for the Year immediately ensuing : And a fresh Election and Nomi-
nation of Trustees shall in like manner take place upon every last
Thursday in the Month of April in every Year thereafter ; and Copies
of the Minutes of every Election or Nomination of a Trustee which
shall take place under the Provisions of any Clause in this Ordinance
Proviso.
shall be transmitted without Delay to the Colonial Secretary ; Pro-
vided always that no Person shall be elected a Trustee at any
General Meeting before the Completion of the said Church who
shall not have paid up a Subscription thereto of at least Twenty
Pounds Sterling, or after its Completion, who shall not be a Renter
of at least Three Sittings therein, nor any Person who shall not be
a Member of the United Church of England and Ireland .
Colonial Chaplain to
be ex-officio Chairman V. And it is further enacted, That the Colonial Chaplain for
of Trustees. the time being duly appointed to the said Church, or during his
Absence the Clergyman duly appointed to officiate for him, shall at
all Times be ex-officio Chairman of the Trustees, but shall not have
the Power of Voting by reason of being such Chairman except in
cases where the Votes of the Trustees present shall be equal.
VI.