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Auditors to be

deem necessary to the performance of the trust reposed in them, And all such contracts and agreements shall and may be entered into and enforced, and all such suits and actions be brought by them, in the name of the Trustees of the Church at Victoria,

or "the Trustees of St John's Church at Victoria," as the case may require, without specifying the Christian or Surnames of the Trustees, and no action shall abate by reason of the death or removal or going out of Office of any Trustee. And all suits or actions, the cause of which shall arise or accrue to any person whatsoever, from or by reason of any contract or agreement, or any other matter or thing, made or entered into, done or performed by the said Trustees in the execu- tion of the said Trust, shall be brought by such person against the said Trustees, under the name and title aforesaid,

XV. And it is further enacted, That one person not being a the Trus- elected amually. Trustee shall be elected at a general meeting to be called

tees immediately after the completion of the building of the said Church, to be an Auditor of the accounts rendered by the Trustees of the said building; and one other person not being a Trustee shall be nominated by the Governor to be an Auditor for the same purpose. And one person shall thereafter be elected at a general niceting on the last Thursday in every month of April to be an Auditor of the yearly accounts of the said Trustees, and one other person not being a Trustee shall be thereupon nominated by the Governor to be an Auditor for the same purpose and during the same period. Trustees to keep XVI. And it is further enacted. That the Trustees shall keep an annual accounts, account, wherein they shall enter all money received and paid by and to submit them them, under and by virtue of the provisions of this Ordinance, which with Auditor's re- account the Auditors, or either of them, may inspect at all reasonable port at a general times; and the said account, together with any report of the Auditors meeting every year

or either of them thercon, shall be laid before the general annual meetings, to be held on the last Thursday in every month of April; and the said accounts shall be thereupon published in the Official Gazette.

Who to vote at general meetings.

Trustees to call XVII. And it is further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the a general meeting Trustees for the time being or the major part of them, and they are upon receiving a hereby required to call a general meeting of the subscribers or renters requisition signed by Twenty Sub- of sittings, as the case may be, within twelve days after receiving any scribers or renters requisition in writing to that effect signed by not less than twenty of of Sittings.

such subscribers or renters. And ten days notice of the time and place of holding such general meeting shall be affixed in some conspi- cuous part of the said Church when completed, or until its comple- tion in some conspicuous place or places within the town of Victoria. XVIII. And it is further enacted, That the right of voting at every general meeting until the said Church shall have been reported by the proper authority to be completed and fit for use, shall be vested in subscribers who have paid up their subscriptions previous to the date of the notice to convene such general meeting, and that, from and after such time as the said Church shall have been so reported to be completed and fit for use, the right of voting shall be vested in renters of sittings in the said Church who shall have duly paid up their rent. Provided always that no such subscriber or renter of sit- tings shall on any occasion be allowed to give more than one vote. No person to

XIX. And it is further enacted, That no person shall be suffered read prayers or to sing or say the Common or open Prayer, or to administer the Sacra- preach except Co- ments, or to preach any sermon in the said Church, except the Co- lonial Chaplain or lonial Chaplain duly appointed to the said Church, or some Clergy- person officiating for himn.

man duly authorized to officiate for him.

Proviso.

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XX. And it is further enacted, That every person who shall Penalty on dis- *urbing congrega- wilfully and maliciously, either within or from without the said Church, disturb the performance of public Worship therein, or in any way during such time molest any of the congregation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable on conviction before the Chief Ma- gistrate of Police or any Magistrate of Police, to a Fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding Three

Months.

J. F. DAVIS, Governor, de de.

the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

Eleventh Day of March, 1847.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro, Clerk of Councils.

SCHEDULE.

fecting a Tablot or Cenotaph in the Church not less than One Hundred

dars nor more than One Thousand Dollars.

Li Almada

Clerk

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Victoria, Hongkong,

22nd March, 1847.

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for your Lordship's information. Copy of

Letter from

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Hongkong, laying open the proceedings

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