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Church Councils of Saint John's Cathedral and of Saint Andrew's Church.

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(4) The regulations contained in the Second Schedule shall apply in the case of the Church Council of any future church until such regulations shall have been amended and the amendments shall have been adopted at a meeting of the qualified and duly euroiled olectors of the Church in question.

Church Councils.

10. There shall be a Saint John's Cathedral Church Council and a Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon, Church Council, and such other Church Councils as may be constituted by regulations made under this Ordinance. The primary duties of everv such Council, whether constituted by or under this Ordi- nance, shall be to cooperate with the incumbent in the initiation, conduct and development of work in the church concerned in accordance with the Regulations for Church Councils for the time being in force and to exercise the powers conferred upon them in ac- cordance with Section 7 of this Ordinance: Pro- vided always that all matters connected with the religious services of the churches shall be under the immediate direction and management of the respec- tive incumbents or clergymen in charge subject never- theless to the control of the Bishop: And provided also that no change in the customary arrangement and conduct of the religious services in any church shall be made arbitrarily and without the consent of the Church Council, and that the incumbent or clergy- man in charge shall inform the Council before making any change. Any question which may then or from time to time arise between the incumbent or clergy- man in charge and Church Council with regard to any such change shall be referred to the Bishop who after such consultation as he shall think best both with the incumbent or clergyman in charge and the Council, shall make orders thereon against which there shall be no appeal.

Future churches

Right of visitation.

Bishop's

right to use Cathedral.

Right of troops to use of Cathedral

Church on payment of

Miscellaneous.

11. The provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to every church of the Church of England hereafter established in the Colony.

12. The right of visitation of churches shall le with the Bishop, and, under the general or special authority of the Bishop, with the Archdeacon of Hong Kong who may report to the Trustees any irregulari- ties in regard to the fulfilment of the duties of any particular Church Council in matters delegated to it by the Trustees.

13. The Bishop shall have the right of using the Cathedral, upon due notice being given, for ordina- tions, confirmations and other special services, of determining the order and form of such services, and of preaching and celebrating the Holy Communion therein.

14. So long as an annual sum of not less than five hundred dollars shall be paid to the Trustees for the use of Saint John's Cathedral Church by the troops constituting the Garrison, the Trustees shall allow and arrange for the use of such Church by the said Certain sum. troops for one service at least on every Sunday in the year, but shall not be bound to provide any clergyman to perform the same.

Government grant for

services at prisons and Government hospitals.

15. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appro- priate such proportion of any sum which may be voted by the Legislative Council for general ecclesias- tical or religious purposes as he may deem proper to the Trustees, and thereupon the Dean or other clergy- man nominated by the Trustees, if such sum is ac-