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15. At least ten days notice of the time and place of holding such General Meeting shall be given by notices conspicuously posted at each doorway of the Church used by the Congregation. The Colonial Chaplain, if present, shall preside at such meating; and no General Meeting of seat-holders, except the Annual Meeting, or for the pur- poses of Section 22 of this Ordinance, shall be held unless at least twenty soat-holders are present.
16. The right of voting at every General Meeting of scat-holders shall be vested in renters of sittings in the Church who shall have duly paid the rant of their sittings. Provided always that no such seat-holder shall on any occasion be allowed to give more than one vote.
17. The allotment of sittings in the Church in force at the time of coming into operation of this Ordinance shall bo continued until the same shall be altered under the provi- sions of this Ordinance. And such allotment and all future allotments shall be subject to the following reservations of sittings for which no rent shall be charged, namely:-
(1.) One third part of the whole number of the sittings in the Church for the use of the poorer classes of the community.
(2.) Such sittings for the Governor of the Colony, the Officer Commanding the troops, and Officers of the garrison as the Trustees shall deem sufficient and may be able to provide.
18. The Trustees shall make arrangements for placing the whole Church at the disposal of any Military Chaplain for garrison services at such hours as may not interfere with the usual and ordinary services of the Church.
19. The Trustees shall, at cach Annual Meeting, assess and fix a rent for each sitting in the Church, and may at any time make agreements or contracts with any person desirous to engage the same according to such assessment, and such rent shall be in force from the 1st day of April in the year in which it is fixed until the thirty first day of March next following. The rents of all sittings in the Church shall be paid in advance.
20. If it shall at any time appear to the Trustees that such Annual Assessment is insufficient to defray the necessary charges and costs of the Church, they may call a General Meeting in the manner provided by Section 15 of this Ordinances, and, with the assent of a majority at such Meeting, such majority not being less than twenty persons in number, may substitute such higher assessinent as to such majority may appear sufficient.
21. No seat-holder shall, under any pretence whatever, be deprived of the free use of his sitting at all times when the Church shall be open for public worship, except when the Church shall be used for a Military Service or under the following circumstances →→→
(1.) If he fail to pay the rent of such sitting in advance within three months after it shall have been demanded by the Trustees.
(2.) If he fail to pay the difference between the rato. ussessed on such sitting and a higher assessment made under Section 20 of this Ordinance within one month after such difference shall have been demanded by the Trustees.
(3.) If he designedly and habitually interrupt the celebration of divine worship or disturb any part of the Congregation within the Church by any anscemly noise, gesture or behaviour.
22. In any of the three cases provided for in the last Section, the Trustees may issuo a Monition to such defaulter or offender, and in case such person shall not forthwith pay the sums claimed, or desist from the practice complained of, the Trustees may call a General Meeting of the seat- holders, and such Meeting may authorise the Trustees to declare the sitting or sittings rented by the person com- plained of to be vacant.
23. The Trustees shall collect all seat-rents and other moneys due or coming to the Church, and may at their
The Trustees discretion sus for the recovery of the same.
shall, out of the said sums, pay the salaries of all officers of the Church, and shall apply the surplus, if any, to such
repairs and improvements of the Church and the Trust property as shall seem to them expedient.
Serice.
Right to vote.
Allotrcent of Sittings.
Billings Reserved
MiNtary
Servicza.
Sect-Rents.
Increase of Rente,
Forfeiture of
geat.
Moniton and forfeltare,
Funds.
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