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Register of Members.

Filling vacancies in Church Body.

Conduct of services, &c.

Power to make

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3. The Corporation shall keep at its principal church or meeting place a register of the Members of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong, and shall enter in such register the names of all such persons as are in the opinion of the Corporation proper persons to be admitted as Members of the said Church. Such book is hereinafter referred to as the Register of Members, and the persons whose names appear therein as Members of the Church.

4. Upon the death or resignation or removal from office of any of the persons named in sub-section 1 of section 2" hereof a successor to the person so dying, retiring or being removed shall be appointed by a majority of the Members of the Church present at a meeting to be convened for the purpose by the Corporation. The names of every person so elected shall be entered in the Register of Members with the date of election and particulars of the office to which such person is elected, and every such entry shall be signed by at least four members of the Church Body.

5. The services of the Church shall be regulated and conducted by the Pastor of the Church for the time being in accordance with the principles of the Christian religion based upon the Old and New Testaments, and in accordance as far as possible with the practice of the Congregational Churches now in existence in Europe and America.

6. Subject to the provisions of section 5 the Corpora- tion may from time to time make regulations for the ser- Regulations. vices of the Church, and the management of its property and affairs generally. All such regulations shall be laid before a meeting of the Members convened for the purpose, and if approved by a majority of the Members present at such meeting shall be binding on the Corporation and upon all Members of the Church. A copy of any such Regula- tions sealed with the Common Seal of the Corporation and countersigned by any four members of the Church Body shall be accepted as evidence of such regulations having been regularly made and confirmed.

Removal

of Members.

Convening meetings.

Use of Seal.

Saving of rights.

7. The Regulations may provide for the removal from office or from membership of the Church of any member of the Church Body or the Church by the vote of at least two-thirds of the Members of the Churchi,

8. Every meeting held under this Ordinance may, be convened by posting a notice of the time and place for holding such meeting and the nature of the business to be discussed upon the door of the principal Church or other meeting place of the Corporation in Hongkong on the two Sundays next preceding the date of the meeting.

9. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the Seal of the Corporation shall be sealed with the Com- mon Seal of the Corporation and signed by at least four of the Members of the Church Body for the time being.

10. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, his heirs or successors or of any bodies politic or corporate or other persons, except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from and under them.

Objects and Reasons.

The Church Body of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong, having agreed to acquire the land and build- ing (Inland Lot 1424), now registered in the name of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which have since the completion of the buildings been occupied by the Congregational Church, desire to be in- corporated for that purpose, aud in order to enable them to regulate the membership and other matters relating to the Church.

DENNYS & BOWLEY,