and where no Church exists already, the Government will contribute towards Church accommodation upon the following terms:--
NUMBER OF SITTINGS REQUIRED.
MAXIMUM GOVERNMENT
GRANT,
25 50
100
150 200
Rs. 2,000
3,500
5,000
6.000 7,000
NUMBER OF BITTINGS REQUIRED.
250
300
350
400
For any excess over 400
MAXIMUM GOVERNMENT
GRANT,
Rs. 8,000
9,000
10,500 12,000
Rs. 30 per seat in execss..
Supply of Church furniture.
20.-The supply of Church furniture will be regulated by the following rules. All expenditure connected with the articles to be supplied by the Public Works Department will be provided for under the rules laid down in Chapter
Section
of Code. 1 —Each Government Protestant Church, Civil or Military (Cathedrals excepted), will be supplied by the Public Works Department with the following articles, the cost of which will be allowed in addition to the grant for the building:
Note.--For Protestants accommodation will be provided for the Church of England service only.
In ascertaning the number of seats to be provided, women, children and peusioned soldiers and their fam lies may also be taken into account, two children being counted as one adult. In cases of stations where abnor. mal rates prevail, special application may be made to the Government of India for an increase to the grant given by the State.
But no grant for more than 200 sittings will be made except at seats of Local Governments and adminis trations, at Hill Sanitaria, or at Railway Depóts. In the two latter cases, the number of European-born British subjects in Government or Railway service must exceed (without their families) 120, to warrant the grant for a Church of greater accommodation than 200 sittings. When the number of sittings required is intermediate between the number given in the table, the grant for the seats in excess of the nearest number below the number required will be at the rate of the next lowest number in the table. And in no case will the Government grant be allowed until these contributions, together with the grant, amount to the estimated cost of the Church.
Church accommodation to be provided only for British-burn Duropean subjects.
11. The number of sittings required for any particular Civil Station, other than a Railway Depôt or Station, will be finally determined by the Government, solely with regard to the number of the British-born European subjects in the service of Government. No grant for Churches in Civil Stations will be made until private subscriptions have been obtained, and then the Government grant will not exceed double the amount of private subscriptions actually realized; the maximum figure in column 2 of the Table above being in any case the extreme limit of the grant towards the scale of accommodation which stands opposite in colunu 1.
Combination of Civil with Military Church.
12. It is desirable, whenever such a course will not be attended by inconvenience, to combine the Civil with the Military Church of a Station, the grant allowed for the Church accommodation of the British troops given in para, 9 being supplemented by a grant according to the scale shown in para. 10, and to the probable number of seats that will be required for the Civil British-born European residents in the service of Government or of a Railway Company.
General.
Authorized scale not to be exceeded.
13. The scales of sizes, and of expense, for all Churches above laid down, are in no case to be exceeded without a reference to the Government of India, even though the proposed exponditure from Public Funds may be within the powers of sanction vested in the Local Government or Administration.
House for Chowkeedar to be provided: As alan in certain cases for other servants.
14-A house for the Chowkeedar or resident bearer may be provided. In cases, however, where the Church is distant from the bazaar, and where special grounds are shown, accommodation may be provided for other duly authorized servants, but such further accommodation will be limited to shelter for day use only. These houses should, when practicable, be adjoining to, and not within the Church compounds, but when within them they should be erected in keeping with the other Church buildings.
Churches for non-oficial residents require sanction of Government.
15.-Church accommodation for non-official residents, either British-born Europeans or others, or for official residents other than British-born, should not be sanctioned by the Local Governinents or Administrations without reference to the Government of India,
Private contributions.
16-When private contributions are made towards building a Church in aid of a Government grant, the procedure to be adopted is as follows :---
Basis of design and estrinate.
17.-The amount of private contributions being knowu, a definite design and estimate will be prepared by the Executive Engineer, and submitted for sanction in the usual way, the limit by which the Executive Engineer will be guided in his designs being the aggregate of the Government graut according to the scales given in paras. 8, 9 and 11, and the amount of private contributions actually realized.
Private contributions to be doposited.
18. Before the work is commenced, the amount of the private contributions must be paid into a Govern- ment Treasury, and carried to credit of Deposits in the accounts of the Public Works Department, as laid down in Chapter XX, Section V, para. 16. The expenditure incurred from the Government grant, and the contributions, will be adjusted in the manner directed in Chapter XX, Section ii, para. 51, and on the principle laid down in para. 53 of the same Section.
Note. In the case of a grant from the Church building fund for the Diocese of Calcutta, a certificate instead of a cash payment in advance may be accepted showing the amount of the contribution to be allowed. The conditions on which this certificate may be accepted are that in every case definite arrangements must be made with the Local Government or Administration concerned respecting the precise dutes on which the contributions will be paid, and that, until the payment is made, the Government shall have a primary lien on the funds of the Society. In case of any failure in paying up the stipulated payment on due date, the privilege herein allowed is to curse.
Mode of treating these contributions.
19.-In dealing with cases of this nature, unless it be otherwise specifically ordered, the private contribu- tion is to be looked upon as an addition to the Government grant, instead of the money allowed from Public Funds being considered as a grant in aid of private contributions, and the responsibility of Public Works Officers with respect to the preparation of estimates, and the construction of such buildings with reference to excess of expenditure over the estimate, will be as strictly enforced as in a case where only public funds are expended.
Maximum cost.
Maximum
cost,
Rs.
Rs.
-Appliances to seat the congregation, and to allow them to kneel in descent comfort:-
Officers per seat
5
Thermantidotes when necessary, each --Lighting apparatus, per 100 seats
Candlesticks for Pulpits, per set
200
100
40
stool
2
for Lectern...
80
77
Soldiers per seat ...
4
"J
for Reading desk
30
stool
1
j.-Lectern
50
b.--Communion table, each
45
rails per running foot.
4
6.-Pulpit, sach
200
d.-Reading desk and stool
60
60
45
12
10
rates.
12
2
e-Font and cover...
-Vestry almirahı
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table
Two Vestry chairs, per pair
g.-One Altar chair....
A.--Puukahs, complète, per rumming foot........
--One Bell of reasonable size to summon the congregation to Church, at a cost not ex- ceeding Rs. 300 for a first class Church (viz, those containing more than 400 sit- tings,) and Rs. 200 for a second class Church (viz, those containing less than 100 sittings). 1--Chicks or bamboo blinds for At market
doors and windows where ab- solutely necessary.
The Reading desk" should be simply a desk (however appropriately shaped), and not an enclosure, expensive from its size, and occupying needless space.
11.-The Civil Department will provide the following articles:-
Suitable set of Communion Plate
Rɛ. 150
Rs.
Safe for custody of Communion Plate, which is
also to be used for records Altar cover of red embroidered cloth
150 150
Bibles and Prayer-book for the Clergyman Fair linen cloth and napkins for Communion
Service....
50
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III-Each Roman Catholic Church built by Government, Civil or Military, for the use of the European Soldiers, will be supplied by the Public Works Department with the following artioles, the cost of which will be allowed in addition to the grant for the building:—
a.-One Bookstand
-One Almira for Altar vestments, d&e, al least 4 feet long by 2 feet 5 inches broad... .-Three Altar chairs for Officiant and Assist-
ants
Officers, per seat
stool Soldiers, per seat..
Maximum
cost.
Rs.
5
2
4
1
Maximum cust,
Ra.
$
45
stool
36
g.-Altar Table,
27
h-Communion Rail,
60
Pulpit, each
200
-Punkahs where required, complete, per run.
ning foot
2
--Apparatus for lighting, per 100 scats......................... -One Bell as in E.
100
d.One Table and three chairs for the Vestry...
-One Font and Cover ..
ƒ.-Seats and kneeling accommodation for the
congregation:
A second Altar Table may be supplied to Churches intended to accommodate more than 500 persons. IV. The following articles will be supplied to Roman Catholic Churches by the Military Department on the Executive Engineer's certificates of the necessity of original supply or renewal, as the case may be:-
9.-Altar Canons (one set of three)
8. --One Chalice
**
1.One Tabernacle, inside covered with silk.. 2.-One Pyx with Silver Cup, inside gilt
Rs. 150
Rs.
୫
100
100 10.-Altar Vestments of silk (five sets of the five
colours)..
300
4.-One Moustrance
180
5.-Six Altar Candlesticks and Crucifix.
180
11-Two Copes, one white and one black, of silk...120 12.-Humeral for Benediction
30.
6-Two Cruets and one Plate.... 7.-One Altar Lamp
10
13.-Altar linen, comprising Albs, Altar covers,
80
Communion cloth, &e........
SO
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8.-One Missal
The Executive Engineer will be guided in granting the certificates above alluded to by the following prin-
ciples :-
Class I-Churchas built by Government. The certificate should state that the Church was built by Govern- ment for the use of European Troops or British-born European subjects in the service of Government or of the local Railway Company, and is still maintained for the same purpose.
Class II.—Churchce which have received building grants from Government.--The certificate should state that the Church received a building grant of Rs. , equal to the
part of the total cost of the building, and that the grant was made on account of European Troops or British-born European subjects in the service of Government or of the local Railway Company, and that the building is still used by them.
For this class of Churches a proportion of the standard cost of the articles will be sanctioned equal to the proportion of the grant-in-aid to the total cost of the building itself,
Class III-Churches vented by Government--The certificate should state that the Chapel is wholly rented by Government for the use of European Troops or British-born European subjects in the service of Government or of the local Railway Company.
In this class the articles necessary for service will be given by the Military Department, but returned into Store if the building ceases to be rented for the performance of Divine Service to a Military congregation.
In none of the classes described above should any article of furniture be allowed with retrospective effect, and the required certificates should afford information as to when the article was originally supplied, and by whom, and the reason for recommending its renewal. When, however, the Government pay for the use of certain varying number of seats in a Church, the hire of the seats should include everything necessary for the perform. ance of the Service.
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