ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1847 . 217
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.
9. And it is further enacted , that every subscriber towards the Subscribers
of ten pounds
building of the said church to the amount of not less than ten pounds to have
priority of
sterling shall have a right in the first instance to become a renter of a choice of
sittings.
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 Party having
engaged a
pew or sitting , and continuing to pay rent for the same according to the sitting not to
be disturbed.
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 never Proviso.
theless , that ifany 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 hereinbefore 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 Person
disturbing
habitually disturb any part of the congregation within the said church, -- the congrega