CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ORDINANCE, 1912

CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ORDINANCE, 1912

No. 36 of 1912.

Congregational Church. in hongkong

[1st -November, 1912.]

1. The China Congregational Church Ordinance, 1912.


2.-(1) The Members of the Church Body of the China Congre-
gational Church in Hongkong, shall be a body corporate under the

name of - The Church Body of the china Congregational Church in
Hongkong - (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation).

(2) The Corporation by the name aforesaid shall have perpetual
succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts, and
shall and may have and use a Cominon Seal, -and may from tinic to
time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the

Corporation way seem, fit.

(3) The Corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,
purchase, take, hold and enjoy lands, buildings, messuacres or
tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situated
and also to invest upon morgage of any lauds, buildings, messuages
or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any corporation or company, and also to pur-
chase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and
kind soever.

(4) The corporation shall further bave power by deed under its
seal to graut, sell, couvey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition,
yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, trawsfer or otherwise dispose
of any lands, buildings, inessuages, tenements, mortgages, deben-
tures, Stocks, funds, shares or securities, or goods and chattels,
which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Corpora-

tion upon such terins as to the Corporation may seem fit.

3. The Corporation shall keep at its principal church or meeting
place a register of the Members of the China Congregational Church
in Hongkong, and shall eriter in such register the names of all such
persons as are in the opinion of the Corporation proper persons to
be admitted as members of the said Church. Such book is here-
inafter referred to as to the Register of Members, and the persons
whose names appear therein as members of the Church.


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4. Upon the death or resignation or removal from office of any
member of the Church Body aforesaid a successor to the person
so dying, retiring or being removed shall be appointed by a majority
of.the Members of the Church present at a meeting to be convened
for the purpose by the Corporation. The names of every person
so elected shall be entered in the Register of Members with the date
of election and particidars of the office to which stich person is
elected, and every such entry shall be signed by at least four mem-
hers of the Church Body.

5. The services of the Church shall be regulated and conducted by
the Pastor of the Church for the time beincr in accordance with the
principles of the Christian religion based upon. the Old and New
Testaments, and in accordance as far as possible with the practice
of the Congregational Churches now in existence in Europe and
America.

6. Subject to the provisions of section 5 the Corporation,
may make regulations; for the services of the Church, and
the management of its property, and alfairs generally. All
such regulations shall be laid before a majority the Members
convened for the purpose, and if approved by a majority of the
Members present at such meeting shall be binding on the Corpora-
tion and upon all Members of the Church. A copy of any such
regulations sealed with the Coinnion Seal of the Corporation and
countersigned by any four members of the Church Body shall be
accepted as evidence of such regulations having been regularly made
and confirmed.

7. The regulations may provide for the removal from office or
from membership of the Church of any member of the Church
Body or the Church by the vote of at least two-thirds of the
Members of the Church.

8. Every meetino. held under this ordinance may be convened by
postincy a, notice, of the and place for holding such meeting
and the nature of the business to be discussed upon the door of the
principal Church or other meeting place of the Corporation in
Hongkong on the two Sundays next preceding the date of the
Meeting.

9. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the
Seal of the Corporation shall be sealed -with the Common Seal of the
Corporation and signed by at least four of the Members of the
Body for the time being

10. nothing in this ordinance shall affect or be deenied to affect
the rights of His majesty the king

Short title. Incorporation. Succession and Seal. Power to acquire property. Power to sell property. Register of Members. Filling vacancies in Church Body. Conduct of services, etc. Power to make regulations. Removal of Members. Convening meetings. Use of Seal. Saving of rights of Crown.

Short title. Incorporation. Succession and Seal. Power to acquire property. Power to sell property. Register of Members. Filling vacancies in Church Body. Conduct of services, etc. Power to make regulations. Removal of Members. Convening meetings. Use of Seal. Saving of rights of Crown.

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