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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1892.

Appointment of Chaplain.

Religious matters subject to Episcopal control.

Temporal

affairs subject to control of the Church Body.

Power to make regulations.

Power to sue

for moneys due to the Church Body.

Military contribution and sittings.

Government grant.

and all monuments, tablets and memorials in or about the said Church shall be placed under the custody of the Church Body and all the liabilities whatscever of the trustees elected or appointed under the Ordinances hereby repealed shall be taken over and assumed by the Church Body.

. It shall be lawful for the Church Body from time to time to appoint as occasion may require one or more Chaplaius to perform and carry on divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England according to the rites and ceremonies thereof and to appoint such other officers as may be necessary or expedient upon such terms and conditions as they may think fit.

3. All matters connected with the religious services of the said Church or the rites and ritual thereof shall be under the immediate direction and management of the Chaplain for the time being, subject nevertheless to the control of the said Bishop for the time being.

9. The temporal affairs of the said Church shall be managed, directed, and governed by the Church Body, Provided, however, that the members of the Church Body shall not be deemed personally liable for any payments of money in excess of that provided for the Church purposes. 10. The Church Body shall have power to make, alter, amend and repeal and shall forthwith make regulations for-

1. The election and appointment of a chaplain or chaplains, an auditor, secretary, organist, verger, and such other officers as they may think neces- sary or expedient.

2. The election of lay members of the Church Body in case of the death, absence from the Colony incapacity to act or resignation of any of the exist- ing members thereof.

3. The holding of meetings of the Church Body and of the seatholders or subscribers to the said Cathedral or of the persons forming the ordinary congrega- tion of the said Cathedral and the taking and re- cording of the votes at such meetings and generally for the regulation of such meetings and the busi- ness to be transacted thereat.

4. The appropriation, allotment and arrangement of the sittings and the rents and subscriptions (if auy) to be paid therefor and the mode of collection thereof, the keeping of registers of marriages, baptisms, and burials, and of seatholders, and sub- seribers, and the collection and disposition of money offerings, offertories and donations and for the keeping of accounts.

5. Defining the duties of the chaplain or chaplains in relation to the said Cathedral and any services to be performed therein or at the Prison, Hospital or elsewhere in the Colony and the fees to be taken for marriages, baptisms, burials or other services.

6. The erection of monuments, tablets, or memorials in the said Church or the precincts thereof and the fees to be taken therefor.

7. All other matters not hereinbefore specially men- tioned for the better carrying out of this Ordi- nance or in connection with the affairs of the said Church or Church Body.

11. The Church Body shall in their discretion have the power to sue for all rents, subscriptions, fees and moneys due or owing under any regulations to be made as aforesaid.

12. So long as an annual sum of not less than $500 shall be paid to the Church Body for the use of the said Church by the Troops for the time constituting the garrison of this Colony the Church Body shall allow and arrange for the use of the said Church by the said 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.

12. It shall be lawful for the Governor for the time be- ing to appropriate such proportion of any sum that may be voted by the Legislative Council for general ecclesiastical or religious purposes as he may deem proper to the Church Body and thereupon the Chaplain for the time being if such sum be accepted by the Church Body shall be bound when so required to provide for or perform all burial services for members of the Church of England in Hongkong, and all religious administrations of the Church of England at the Prison or Hospitals or elsewhere in the Colony.