THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4т¤ MARCH, 1899.
upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tene- ments, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire, and possess goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever.
(4.) The Church Body shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities, or goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belong to the Church Body, upon such terms as to the Church Body may seem fit: Provided always that the power of sale hereby granted shall not extend to the Church or the precincts thereof without the consent in writing of the Governor.
in the Church
6. The Church and the precincts thereof (a plan of Vesting of which signed by the Director of Public Works and sealed the Church with the Seal of the Colony was deposited at the Land and precincts Office of this Colony on the 29th day of April, 1892), Body, and ob together with all rights, easements, and appurtenances ject thereof. thereunto belonging, and together with all the estate, right, title, and interest of the Church Body constituted under the Ordinance hereby repealed, shall continue to be vested in the Church Body for the sole and express purpose of a Church and to the intent that divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England shall be therein performed and carried on in accordance with the rites and ceremonies of the said Church, subject, never- theless, to the road and right of way delineated and coloured red on the said plan, which road shall be maintained as heretofore by the Government of the Colony: Provided always that if at any time the Church shall cease to be used as a Church or divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England shall cease to be performed and carried on therein in accordance with the said rites and ceremonies, the Church and the precincts thereof shall revert to and become the absolute property of the Crown, unless the same shall be sold or otherwise disposed of with the consent in writing of the Governor.
7.—(1.) All books, deeds, papers, and other documents Vesting of hitherto kept at the Church or belonging and appertaining other proper- thereto, and all moneys belonging to or due or owing to ty in the
Church Body. the Church or to the Church Body constituted under the Or- dinance hereby repealed shall be the property of the Church Body for the purposes aforesaid.
(2.) All monuments, tablets, and memorials in or about the Church shall be under the care and custody of the Church Body.
Administration.
and officers.
8.-(1.) The Church Body may appoint, as occasion Appointment may require, a chaplain and one or more assistant chaplains of chaplains to perform and carry on divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England according to the rites and ceremonies of the said Church.
(2.) The Church Body may also appoint such other offi- cers and servants as may be necessary or expedient, upon such terms and conditions as it may think fit.
9. All matters connected with the religious services of Direction of the Church or the rites and ritual thereof shall be under religious the immediate direction and management of the chaplain services. for the time being, subject, nevertheless, to the control of the said Bishop for the time being.
10. The temporal affairs of the Church shall be managed, Management directed, and governed by the Church Body: Provided, of temporal however, that the members of the Church Body shall not affairs. be deemed personally liable for any payments of money in excess of that provided or available for the purposes of the Church.
11. So long as an annual sum of not less than five hun- Right of the dred dollars shall be paid to the Church Body for the use troops to use of the Church by the troops for the time constituting the the Church
on payment garrison of this Colony the Church Body shall allow and of certain arrange for the use of the Church by the said troops for sum. one service at least on every Sunday in the year, but shall not be bound to provide any clergyman to perform the same.
12. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appropriate Government such proportion of any sum which may be voted by the grant for Legislative Council for general ecelesiastical or religions services at purposes as he may deem proper to the Church Body, and Hospitals. thereupon the chaplain or the senior chaplain for the time
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