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ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1847. 215


Church.


4. And it is further enacted , that the said Trustees so elected and Trustees to be
elected
nominated as aforesaid shall continue to be and to act as trustees until annually.

the last Thursday in the month of April , one thousand eight hundred and
and forty-eight. And upon such day such trustees shall cease to have
any power or authority so to act. And two persons shall be elected at a

general meeting to be held on that day, and four other persons shall be
nominated by the Governor as soon as convenient thereafter to be trustees
of the said church for the year immediately ensuing . And a fresh election
and nomination of trustees shall in like manner take place upon every

last Thursday in the month of April in every year thereafter, and copies
of the minutes of every election or nomination of a trustee which shall
take place under the provisions of any clause in this Ordinance shall be
transmitted without delay to the Colonial Secretary . Provided always Proviso.

that no person shall be elected a trustee at any general meeting before
the completion of the said church who shall not have paid up a subscrip
tion thereto of at least twenty pounds sterling, or after its completion ,
who shall not be a renter of at least three sittings therein, nor any person

who shall not be a member of the United Church of England and Ireland .
[ Amended by Ordinance No. 3 of 1850. ]
5. And it is further enacted , that the Colonial Chaplain for the time Colonial
Chaplain to be
being duly appointed to the said church, or during his absence the cler ex officio
chairman of
gyman duly appointed to officiate for him, shall at all times be ex officio
chairman of the trustees, but shall not have the power of voting by

reason of being such chairman except in cases where the votes of the
trustees present shall be equal. [Amended by Ordinance No. 3 of 1850. ]
6. And it is further enacted , that whenever any trustee shall die, or Vacancy occa
sioned by
shall resign , or shall leave the Colony, then in case such trustee shall death,
have been originally elected at a general meeting, his vacancy shall be resignation,
or removal of
trustees, how
filled by some other person duly qualified in like manner as such trustee, to be filled.
to be elected at a general meeting to be called for that purpose as soon as

may be convenient by the continuing trustees or the major part of them.
And in case such trustee shall have been originally nominated by the

Governor, his vacancy shall be filled as soon as may be convenient by
some other person duly qualified, to be nominated in like manner.
Provided always that if such general meeting shall not be called within Proviso.
one month after the death , resignation , or departure of such trustee from
the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor to nominate some person
duly qualified as aforesaid to be a trustee .