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4. The Genera! Meeting to be held in the mouth of February in each year shaff be called the Annual General Meeting and at such meeting a Report of all the affairs of the Corporation and an Account of the receipts expen- diture and property of the Corporation together with a balance sheet for the last year shall be presented by the Honorary Treasurer and the Chartered Accountants (here- inafter referred to) and there shall be elected a Chairman, au Honorary Treasurer, Chartered Accountauts and Auditors for the ensuing year. The Committee shall elect their first Chairman who shall lunction until the first Annual General Meeting. At such Annual General Meeting such other business shall be transacted as may be necessary.
5. Special Meetings of the Committee may be convened at any time on the requisition of not less than four Members thereof by a notice specifying the object of the meeting and at any Special Meeting convened on such requisition no business shall be transacted other than that specified in the requisition.
6. General or Special Meetings of the Committee shall be convened (subject to Regulation 5) by direction of the Chairman of the Committee and seven days' notice in writing thereof shall be given to the Members of the Committee then within the Colony.
7. At every General or Special Meeting of the Com- mittee the Chair shall be taken by a Chairman to be nominated by the Members of the Committee present of whom four shall be a quoritm.
8. The Business Manager (as hereinafter defined) shall keep a Minute Book of such Meetings and proper entries shall be made therein of all business transacted at every Meeting.
9. The voting at and resolution of General or Special Meetings of the Committee shall be decided by show of
hands.
MANAGEMENT.
10. The first Chaplain shall be The Rev, G. T. Walde- grave, M.A.
11. The Chaplain shall be in sole charge of the religious activities of the Institute and shall care for and attend to all social arrangements and functions and to the visitation of ships and hospitals and he shall also be in charge of the Launch Dayspring" and of her crew and of any other launch from time to time owned or chartered by the Corporation for its purposes.
12. There shall be a Business Manager who shall sub- ject to the control of the Committee be entrusted with the upkeep and repair of the buildings furniture and fittings of the Institute, the management of all catering and mess- ing arrangements and the secretarial and office work. shall also be entitled to go on board all mercantile shipping and shall make any necessary hospital arrangements in connection with such seafarers.
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13. Any Chaplain subsequent to the first Chaplain shall be appointed by the Missions to Seamen in London but such appointment, the period of such appointment aud the terms of such appointment shall be subject to the approval of the Committee. While in Hong Kong the Chaplain shall be subject to the control of the Coromittee and his Stipend shall be paid out of the funds of the Corporation. The Business Manager shall be appointed by the Committee for such period on such salary and on such terms as the Committee may in their discretion think desirable and shall be paid out of the funds of the Corpo- ration. Captain F. Bayliss the late Superintendent of the Sailors Home shall be paid out of the funds of the Corporation pension for life of Three hundred and fifty Pounds per annum being the pension heretofore agreed to be paid to him.
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14. Neither the Chaplain nor the Business Manager shall be entitled to serve as a Member of the Committee
or to vote at any Meetings thereof but they shall both of them attend every such Meeting unless the Committee otherwise desires.
15. No alcoholic liquors shall be sold or consumed on
the premises of the Institute.
16. The Institute shall be open to all men of His Majesty's Navy and to Officers and Men of the Mer- cantile Marine irrespective of their religion. Either the Chaplain or the Business Manager shall have power to refuse to admit and also power to expel from the premises of the Institute any person or persons whatever for any reason which such Chaplain or Business Manager may decide to be sufficient. Any person or persons aggrieved by any such decision of the Chaplain or of the Business Manager may refer the matter to the Committee for their decision which shall be final.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
17. The Chapel on the premises of the Intitute shall he used for divine service and worship according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England.
18. Such services shall be voluntary and the attendance thereat of any person or persons using the Institute shall not he compulsory.
OFFICERS.
19. A firm of Chartered Accountants shall be appointed by the Committee at the Annual General Meeting to manage the financial affairs of the Institute. Such firm shall be responsible for the collection of all moneys due to the Corporation and for the payment thereont of all necessary payments. Pending and subject to any such appointment as aforesaid the firm of Messieurs Lowe, Bingham and Matthews shall be the Chartered Account- ants of the Institute. There shall also be an Honorary Treasurer of the Corporation appointed by the Committce from time to time who shall carry our such duties as shall he delegated to him by the Committee and shall hold office until a successor to him is appointed,
AUDITORS.
20. There shall be one or more Auditors of the Corporation who shall be elected annually at the Annual General Meeting. Pending and subject to
any such appointment Messieurs Lowe, Bingham and Matthews shall be the Auditors of the Corporation.
21. The Auditor or Auditors shall not later than three weeks before the Annual General Meeting in each year audit and report upon all accounts and books of the Corporation and shall at any other time if and when required by the Committee audit and report upon any of such books and accounts.
22. All the accounts and books of the Corporation shall be open to inspection by the Auditor or Auditors at all reasonable times.
BANKERS.
23. The Bankers of the Corporation shall be the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation or such other bankers as the Committee shall from time to time determine.
24. All subscriptions and pecuniary donations and the income of investments and all other monies from time to times forming part of the general funds of the Corporation shall on the same being received be paid to the general accounts of the Corporation at their bankers,
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