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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH JUNE, 1892.
3. The holding of meetings of the Church Body and of the seatholders or subscribers to the said Church or of the persons forming the ordinary congrega- tion of the said Church 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 any) to be paid therefor and the mode of collection thereof, the keeping of registers of marriages, baptisms and burials and of scatholders and sub- scribers, 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 Church 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 herciabefore specially men- tioned for the bettor 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.
13. 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 religions 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 all requisite religious Services and ministrations of the Church of England at the Prison or Hospitals in the Colony,
14. All regulations made by the Church Body of which notice shall have been given to the Colonial Secretary and which shall have been published in the Gazette shall have effect and continue in force until the next general or special. meeting of the seatholders in or subscribers to the said Church or other the persons forming the ordinary congrega- tion of the said Church duly convened in accordance with the regulations of the Church Body for the time being in force and thereafter only such of the regulations shall con- tinue in force as may be approved by the majority at such general or special meeting.
15. All changes in the constitution of the Church Body shall be notified to the Colonial Secretary and published in the Gazette, which publication shall be deemed in all Courts prima facie evidence of such changes and the Church Body shall when required furnish satisfactory proof of the succes sion, appointment or election of any new member thereof.
Miscellaneous.
16. It shall be lawful for the Church Body to declare any seat or sittings in the said Church vacant if the person entitled thereto for the time being shall fail to pay the rent of any such seat or sittings within three months from the time when demand for payment thereof shall have beeu made upon him personally or in writing, or if such person after a like period and demand shall have failed to pay any moneys due from him to the Church Body, or if any person who is entitled to a seat or sitting shall have been convicted under the next following section.
Power to su@ for moneys due to the Church Body.
Military contribution and sittings.
Government grant for prison and hospital services.
Regulations
to be approve‹l
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Changes in Church Body.
Seats to become vasaUÍ in certain events,
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