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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4тя MARCH, 1899.

Making of regulations.

Approval

being, as the case may be, if such sum is accepted by the Church Body, shall be bound, when so required, to provide for all requisite religious services and ministrations of the Church of Eugland at Victoria Gaol and the Government Civil Hospital.

Regulations.

13. The Church Body may make regulations relating to all or any of the following matters, namely,-

(1.) The qualification, election, and tenure of office of the lay members of the Church Body and tho mode of filling up casual vacancies among the said mem- hers; (2.) The holding of meetings of the Church Body and

the conduct of business thereat;

(3.) The election and tenure of office of an auditor, and the appointment and tenure of office of a treasurer and secretary, and the mode of filling up casual vacancies among such officers; (4.) The appointment, tenure of office, salaries, and duties of a chaplain and assistant chaplains, an organist, a verger, and such other officers and ser- vants as the Church Body may think necessary or expedient;

(5.) The keeping of registers of the seatholders and subscribers of the Church, and of baptisms, marriages, and burials;

(6.) 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, and the conduct of business generally thereat; (7.) The appropriation, allotinent, arrangement, and

use of the sittings in the Church; (8.) The rents and subscriptions, if any, to be paid for the sittings in the Church and the mode of collec- tion thereof; the fees to be taken for baptisms, marriages, and burials or other services; and the collection and disposition of money offerings, offer. tories, and donations;

(9.) The keeping of accounts of moneys received and

expended by the Church Body;

(10.) 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

(11.) All other matters relating to the affairs of the

Church or of the Church Body.

14.-(1.) No regulations made by the Church Body and publica- shall be valid until they have been approved at an annual or special meeting of the seatholders and subscribers of the Church.

tion of regu- lations.

Power to sue

for moneys due.

Power to de-

(2.) All such regulations when so approved shall be published in The Gazette.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

15. The Church Body shall in its discretion bave power to sue for all rents, subscriptions, fees, and moneys due or owing under the Regulations or otherwise.

16. It shall be lawful for the Church Body to declare clare sitting any sitting in the Church vacant-

vacant in certain cases,

Punishment

of person disturbing

divine wor- ship, etc.

Prohibition

(1.) If the person entitled thereto for the time being fails to pay the rent of such sitting within three mouths from the time when demand for payment thereof has been made upon him personally or in writing; or

(2.) If such person, after a like period and demand, fails to pay any moneys due from him to the Church Body; or

(3.) If such person is convicted under the next suc-

ceeding section.

17. Every person who wilfully and maliciously, either within or from without the Church, disturbs the perform- ance of divine worship or any service therein, or in any way during such time molests any of the congregation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, and, in default of payment, to imprisonment with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months.

18. No burial shall take place within tho Church or the of burial, etc. precincts thereof.