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Committee
of manage- ment.
Appointment
of ministers,
Direction of religious Bervices.
Meetings of seat-holders,
Union Church Incorporation.
7. A committee of management, hereinafter called the committee, including a secretary and treasurer, shall be elected annually at a meeting of the seat-holders (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.
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8. The seat-holders (being subscribers) may appoint one or more minister or ministers to perform and carry on divine worship and the services usual in a Protestant Evangelical Christian Church.
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9. 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 committee.
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10. All meetings shall be convened by the minister or senior minister or by the committee or by the said corpora- tion 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 Wednes- day 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 twenty-one years, and have been seat-holders and subscribers of the said Church during at least the six months preceding the meeting, and have held one or more sittings in the said Church and subscribed and paid for or in respect of the same to the maintenance of divine worship in the said Church.
Each such seat-holder shall be entitled to one vote, and the vote of two-thirds in number of the said seat-holders so attending and voting shall be deemed to be the vote of and
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Union Church Incorporation.
shall bind all the seat-holders (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.
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No votes shall be given by proxy, but votes may be votes. given by ballot 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 meeting.
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11. The temporal affairs of the said Church shall be Management of temporal managed, directed and governed by the committee: Pro- affairs. vided however that 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.
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12. It shall be lawful for the committee to make regula- Powers of tions relating to the following matters-
(a) the qualification, election and tenure of office of the
members of the committee;
(b) the holding of meetings of the committee and the
conduct of the business thereat;
(c) the temporary appointment of a minister or assistant minister during the absence from any cause of the incumbent of the post;
(d) the election and tenure of office of an auditor, and the filling up of casual vacancies among the com- mittee;
(e) 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; ()the keeping of registers of communicants, seal- holders and subscribers, and of baptisms, marriages and burials;
(g) the holding of meetings of the seat-holders and subscribers, the right of voting and the taking and recording of the votes at such meetings (where the same is not specially provided for by this
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