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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH JUNE, 1892.
Transfer of Church and property.
Other
properties.
Appointinens of Chaplain.
Religious
matters subject to Episcopal control.
Temporal nteita subject to control of the Church Body.
Power to make regulations.
wheresoever situate for the purposes of this Ordinance or of the Church Body and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any land, buildings, messuages, or tenements or upon the mortgages or debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any Corporation or Company and also to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever; and the Church Body is hereby further empowered from time to time by deeds under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, and yield up mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any such lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks and securities, goods and chattels or any that may hereafter be acquired by or be vested in the Church Body upon such terms as to the Church Body may seem fit.
Provided always that the power of sale bereinbefore granted shall not extend to the said Church and the pre- cincts thereof without the consent in writing of the Gov- ernor of this Colony for the time being.
5. The said Church and the precincts thereof (a plan of which signed by the Director of Public Works and sealed with the seal of the Colony was deposited at the Land Office of this Colony on the twenty-ninth day of April 1892), together with all rights easements and appurtenances there- unto belonging and together with all the estate right title and interest of the trustees thereof appointed under the Ordinances hereby repealed, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Church Body fot the sole and express purpose of a Church and to the intent that divine worship and the services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 Church of England subject nevertheless 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.
Provided always that if at any time the said 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, the said Church and the precincts thereof shall revert to and become the absolute property of the Crown, unless the same shall be sold with the consent in writing of the Governor for the time being.
6. Upon the coming into operation of this Ordinance all books, deeds, papers and other documents hitherto kept at the said Church or belonging and appertaining thereto and all moneys belonging to or due or owing to the said Church or to the trustees thereof elected or appointed under the Ordi- nances hereby repealed shall be handed over to and become the property of the Church Body for the purposes aforesaid 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 whatsoever of the trustees elected or appointed under the Ordinances hereby repealed shall be taken over and assumed by the Church Body.
7. It shall be lawful for the Church Body from time to time to appoint as occasion may require one or moré 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.
8. 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.
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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 from time to time to make, alter, amend and repeal and may 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.
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