242 ORDINANCE No. 3 of 1850.
Church.
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.
Provision 2. And be it further enacted and ordained , that if at any time here
when the an
nual election after, by reason of the non-attendance of voters , trustees shall not be elect
of trustees
may not be ed, in pursuance of the fourth section of the said Ordinance No. 2 of 1847,
made within
the prescrib on the last Thursday of each month of April in every year, then and in
ed time.
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.
Powers vested 3. And be it further enacted and ordained , that the several powers
in the Colo
nial Chaplain vested in the Colonial Chaplain by the fifth section of the said Ordinance
as chairman
of trustees No. 2 of 1847 , as chairman of the trustees for the said cathedral church,
transferred to
the Bishop . 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, in 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 con
vened, 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 deputa
tion , that it may be lawful for the trustees present at such meeting to
elect a chairman from those members in attendance.
Provision for 4. And be it further enacted and ordained , that if at any time it
renting the
unrequired shall appear to the trustees ofthe said church that the one-third part of
portion offree
sittings. 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 from year to year,
until it shall appear necessary to the trustees to again allot the said full
proportion of a third to its original purpose. And that when and as soon
as four eligible sittings shall become vacant, the same shall be assigned
and set apart for the use of the said bishop and his family.