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26 COLONIAL ORDINANCES.


Number than Twenty, that such Assessment will not be sufficient to
provide for all such necessary Costs and Charges, it shall and may
be lawful for the said Majority to substitute such higher Assessment,
as by them shall be deemed sufficient, to meet such Costs and
Charges, and such higher Rate shall thereupon become due and
payable, and shall continue to be charged and collected for the same
period that the Rate for which it is so substituted would otherwise
have been in force.

Subscribers of Ten
Pounds to have Pri- IX. And it is further enacted, That every Subscriber towards
ority of Choice of Sit- the Building of the said Church to the Amount of not less than Ten
tings.
Pounds Sterling shall have a Right in the first instance to become a
Renter of a Pew or Sitting in Preference to any other Person who
shall not have so subscribed ; and such Subscribers shall amongst
themselves have Priority in the Choice of Pews or Sittings not ex-
ceeding Six Sittings, according to the Amount of their Subscriptions-
the Subscriber to the larger Amount to have the Prior Choice, and the
Choice of Subscribers to an equal Amount to the determined by Lot.

Party having engag-
ed a Sitting, not to be X. And be it further enacted, That any Person having engaged
disturbed. any Pew or Sittings, and continuing to pay Rent for the same
according to the Rate fixed, and also conducting himself or herself
in the said Church so as not wilfully or maliciously to disturb the
Performance of Public Worship, or to molest any part of the Con-
gregation attending the same, shall not be, under any Pretence
whatever, removed or ejected without his or her own Consent, from
the Occupation of such Pew or Sittings at all Times when the said
Church shall be open for the Performance of Public Worship, the
Ministration of any Sacrament, or other Rite or Ceremony, according
Proviso. to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland : Provided
nevertheless, that if any Person having engaged any Pew or Sittings
in the said Church under Agreement to pay for the same according
to the Rate or Rent assessed thereupon, shall suffer such Rent to
fall into Arrear, and to continue unpaid for Three Months after the
same shall have been demanded by the Trustees or by any Person
empowered by them, or the Major Part of them ; or if any Person
having engaged as aforesaid any Pew or Sitting, shall refuse to pay
for the same such increased Rate or Rent as the Trustees, according
to the Provisions hereinbefore described , shall have assessed and
affixed ; or if any Person engaging and occupying any such Pew or
Sittings, and continuing to pay the Rent assessed upon the same,
shall, by any unsuitable Noise, Gesture, or Deportment wilfully and
Person disturbing irreverently interrupt the Celebration of Public Worship, or shall
the Congregation to be
or designedly and habitually disturb any part of the Congregation
Sittings. within the said Church, in all such cases it shall and may be
lawful for the Trustees to issue a Monition to every such Defaulter
or Offender, and in case such Defaulter or Offender shall not forth-
with pay all such Arrears, or shall not amend and desist from the
Practice so complained of, it shall be lawful for the said Trustees to
convene a General Meeting, to whom it shall be competent to autho-
rize the said Trustees to declare such Pew or Sittings occupied by
the Party complained of to be Vacant.

Trustees authorized XI. And it is further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful
to permit the Erection
of Monuments with the for the Major Part of the Trustees, with the previous Consent of the
previous Consent ofthe Governor,
Governor.