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12. The temporal affairs of the Church shall be managed, Management directed and governed by the Committee of Management of temporal provided however that the members of such Committee affairs. shall not be deemed personally liable for any payments of money in excess of that provided or available for the pur- poses of the Church.

13. The Committee of Management may nake regulations Powers of relating to all or any of the following matters namely:- Committee of Manage-

(1.) The qualification, election and tenure of office ment.

of the members of the Committee of Manage- ment of the said Church.

(2.) The holding of meetings of the Committee of Management and the conduct of the business thereat.

(3.) The temporary appointment of a Minister or Assistant Minister during the absence from any cause of the incumbent of the post.

(4.) The election and tenure of office of an auditor and the filling up of casual vacancies among the Committee of Management.

(5.) The appointment, tenure of office, salary and duties of any organist, verger or other officer or servant as the Committee of Management may think necessary or expedient.

(6.) The keeping of registers of Communicants, Seatholders and Subscribers of the Church and of baptisms, marriages and burials. (7.) The holding of meetings of the Seatholders and Subscribers of the Church, 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 Ordinance) and the conduct of business specially thereat. (8.) The appropriation, allotment, arrangement and

use of the sittings in the Church.

(9.) The rents and subscriptious, if any, to be paid for the sittings in the Church and the mode of collection thereof, the fees to be taken for baptisms, marriages and burials or other ser- vices and the collection and disposition of money offerings, offertories and donations. (10.) The keeping of accounts of moneys received and expended by the Committee of Manage-

ment,

(11.) The erection and maintenance of monuments, tablets or other memorials in the Church or in the precincts thereof, and the fees to be taken therefor; and

(12.) All other matters relating to the affairs of the Church or of the Committee of Management otherwise than where specially provided for by

this Ordinance.

14. All regulations made by the Committee of Manage- Regulations ment shall be valid unless or until they have been disap- to be valid proved at an annual or special meeting of the Scatholders until dis- and Subscribers of the Church.

approved.

15. The said Corporation shall permit the persons Receipt of or person appointed for that purpose by the Committee of moneys, etc. Management to receive all moneys and subscriptions given or paid for the use of pews and sittings in the said Church or otherwise contributed or subscribed for the purposes aforesaid and also the net rents arising from any lease of the premises or any part thereof and any other money in the nature of income and after payment thereout of the expenses of repairing and insuring the premises and the interest of any debt secured on the premises or in- curred in the erection, completion, repair, alteration, en- largement or improvement of the said premises to pay such sum for the support of the Minister or Pastor and the Assistant Minister or Pastor (if any) of the said Church as the Committee of Management shall have determined and to apply the remainder in payment of the incidental and other expenses attending the maintenance of divine worship or to invest the same and for the other purposes of