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revision for the calling of’ Special. General eetings of the said Congregation when occasion requires: Be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Three Head As- sessors, or any Two of them, from time to time, as they may see fit, or upon an application for that purpose, in writin , fl!’ the hand of at‘ least Five Members ed‘ W1 said“ atioti being presented to them, to call a Public est- ing of the said Congregation, by causing notice thereof to be iven from the Pulpit, or to be osted on the oor of the said Church at least hreo successive. Sundays previous to the day of uch intended Meeting, in'wliich Notice shall be stated the purposes for which the Meeting is called‘; and said Meeting, when so called and assembled,_ shall have the. same powers with res- pect to all matters connected with the inanage- ment and property of the said Church, or other- wise, as are hereby given to the General Annual Meeting of the said Congregation, to be held as aforesaid on the. First Monday in October.

XIV. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty ofthe said Six Assessors, so to be appointed as aforesaid, or of the majority of them, imme- diately after the holding 0 any such Meeting as aforesaid, to assess and ﬁx, in just and equal proportions, as near as may be, what rate or amount shall be paid by each of the Members of the Congregation of the said Church towards defraying the Salaries of the Minister, Clerk of the Congregation, and other Oﬁicers thereof, and the Rates and Levies made or ordered as aforesaid, for Repairs, Alterations and Improve- ments, and to collect and receive the Amounts, when so ﬁxed and assessed from the several Members of the Congregation. And if any Member of the Congregation, on demand made in writing, under the hand of any one or more of the said Assessors, neglect or refuse to pay the amount assessed against him as aforesaid, then and in such case, it shall be lawful for the said Assessors, or the majority of them, in their indi- vidual names, as such Assessors, or in the names of the majority of them, within Thirty days of the time of making such demand, in case the same shall then still remain unpaid, to sue for and recover the same in any Court of Law or Equity, or Court of competent jurisdiction, or before any Justice of the Peace in this Island. And it shall be the further duty of the said Assessors, upon receipt or recovery of the Amounts so assessed as aforesaid, to pay the same over unto the said Corporation or Board of Trustees, who shall apply the same to the several uses and Purposes for which they shall have been ordered to be raised.

XV. And whereas it is deemed necessary to give power to alter the present mode of assessing the members of the Congregation of the said Church, if occasion require, and they shall think ﬁt: Be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Members ofthe said Congregation, at any such Meeting as aforesaid, if they shall think proper, after having directed any Rates or Levies to be made for any of the Purposes aforesaid, to order that, instead of each indivi- dual Member of the said Congregation being assessed towards the payment thereof, that each Pewowner or Pewholder, only shall be assessed in respect of his Pew, and in such case it shall be the Duty of the aid Assessors to assess what amount or proportion shall be paid by each Pew- owner or Pewholder in the said Church, to- wards the Rates and Levies aforesaid ; and the said Assessors shall have the same Powers and Duties with respect to Collecting, Recovering and paying over the amount so assessed against the Pewowners and Pewholders as are herein- before conferred and enjoined- upon them, in- collecting, recovering and paying over the amounts assessed against individual Members.

XVI. And be it enacted, That it shall he the Duty of the said Head Assessors to overlook rthe Proceedings of the said Assessors—to see that they fairly and regularly assess and collect .all Sums ordered to be levied, and that they .dul pay over the same to the said Corporation, .or card of Trustees, for the purposes aforesaid.

XVII. And be it enacted, That when any .of the said Assessors or Head Assessors elected. as aforesaid shall die, resign or be removed, ithen and insuch case the Vacancies so occurring shall be supplied by such Person or Persons as Jhall be elected to ﬁll thesame respectively, by a Majority of the Votes of the Members of the Con- 5-gregation of the said Church present, either by ithemselves or by _some Person or Persons duly authorised in writing to act for them at any An- gnual or other Meetii of the_sai_d Congregation, :,to be _held_,as aforesaid. ' " '

XVIII. And be it enacted, That there shall :.be kept b the said Assessors, a Register or Book in vv ich shall be entered and recorded, “from time to time, the Proeeedingsfor electing _, the Assessors and Head Assessors, and all other

Proceedings sntxranssctions of the said Asses- sors, and of the various Congrellllonﬁl M?°l"'8‘ of the said Chureh,'to be held as aforesaid, and also all Receipts, Payments and Expenditure. Rates, Levies, Assessments and'Orders made or ordered as herein before mentioned ; and said Book or R ' ter shall be open to the Inspec- tisn of any ember of the Congregation. _n0t 1" Arrear of Assessment, at ali reasonable times : And on every Election of Assessors.or Head Assessors, or of Persons to ﬁll Vacancies occur- ring amon them as aforesaid, the same shall be veriﬁed and declared by a Minute or Entry there- of, to he forthwith made in the said Book or Register under the Hands of the Member of the said Congregation presiding at the Meeting, and of Three other Members present thereat—wlnclt Minute or Entry, so signed, shall be evidence of such Appointment and Election.

XIX. And be it enacted, That all Male Members of the Congregation of the said Church, above the age of Twenty-one years, shall be en- titled to vote at any Meeting of the Congregation, and shall also be liable to be rated and assessed as aforesaid, under and by virtue of this Act; but no Female shall be allowed to Vote on any occasion whatsoever, unless she be the Owner of a Pew.

XX. And be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall affect or‘ annul a certain Deed or Instrument in Wl'ilIlIg under Seal, dated the Fifteenth Day of November, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, whereby certain persons who executed the same, being Owners of Pews in the said Church, among other things engaged to contribute towards keeping the said Church in repair, in manner and at the times as in the said Instrument (a Copy of which is set out in the Schedule to this Act) is mentioned, but the same shall still remain, continue and be in full force and effect for all the Purposes there- of—anything in this Act contained, to the con- trary thereof, notwithstanding.

XXI. And be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall affect or be construed to affect, in any manner or_way, Llie Rights of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, or of any Person or Persons, or of any Body Corporate or Politic, such only excepted as are herein men- tioned.

XXII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such, by all Judges, Justices of the Peace, Commissioners of Small Debts, and Ministers of Justice, and other Persons whomsoever, without being specially pleaded.

XXIII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall continue and be in force for the space of Three Years from the passing thereof, and no longer.

SCHEDULE.

Deed or Instruinent referred to in the Twentieth Section of this ﬂct.

Whereas a certain Instrument in writing was executed, hearing date at Princetown, the Thir- teenth Day of September, One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, purporting to be a Bond for the Sum set opposite to each Subscriber’s name, to be paid toa Committee or; Trustees therein named for the purpose of ﬁnishing a certain Building then erected in Princetown, for the \Vorship of Almighty God, upon the foundation of the Presbyterian Church Govern- merit, and authorising and empowering the said Committee or 'l‘rustces to enforce payment of the same, and to levy and collect such further sum or sums of Money as they should deem necessary for that purpose: And whereas the said Building has now become in a state of dis- rcpair, and being desirous to preserve the same, and the said Committee or Trustees having re- signed, it becomes necessary to appoint others: N ow know all Men by these Presents, that we, the present Proprietors of Pews in the said Building, have nominated, constituted and ap- pointed Thomas M‘Nutt, William Clark, and George Thompson of Darnley, and George Beairsto, and Dugald Stewart, of Princetown, aforesaid, a Committee or Trustees to supersede the Committee or Trustees aforesaid, with full power and authority to receive all such sum and sums of money as may be due and owing to the said Building from the said Committee or Trustees; aml upon receipt thereof, Receipts and other suflicient discharges for the same to give, and the money so received, to lay out and expend in re- pairing the said Building, and further to levy and exact upon and from each and every Pew equally, such further sum or sums of Money from time to time, as they or an Three of them may deem necessary to keep tie said Building in a state of good repair, which sum or some of Money we do hereby bind ourselves, severally a d res eotively, and our several and respective II'QIl'l' , ‘xecutors, Administrators and Assigns,

.,.0ﬁcers of the said Church, and for supgﬂying _,s_ucli,V_ac_ancies asaforesaid, as well as a the

to pay in Merchantable Wheat, Oats and Sheep,

at the current price, within Thiit ' ys after bein notiﬁed of the same; and ii'f"case a failure shcu d be ma‘de in the payment of the said sum or sums of Money, or any art thereof, we do hereby agree that it shall an may be lawful for the said Committee or Trustees, or any Three of them, to set up and sell the Pew or part of the Pew so in arrear, at Public Auction, and the purchaser thereof to put in immediate pos- session, with a good and sufficient Title to the same, which Title shall be considered good and valid against the former proprietor or proprietors, and out of the proceeds of such sale to pay the sum so due, together with the Expenses so due and attending the same, and the overplus, if any, to pay to the former proprietor or proprietors :: And further, to let or sell, to the best advantage,j any vacant Pews, from time to time, and at all‘ times, for the beneﬁt of the said Building. And‘

of the death of either of them, the said Thomas" Macnutt. William Clark, George Tliomson; George Beairsto, or Dugald Stewart, or that the whole or any one of the said Committee or Trustees shall refuse or decline to act, or that the majority of the Pewholders should be dis- Sallsﬁetl with the conduct or management of the said Committee, or of any one of them, then and in every such case it shall and may be law- ful 10 and for ll"? m3j0|' Pill‘! (‘if the Pewholders who shall be present at a Meeting to be held pursuant to a notice to be given for that purpose, to nominate and choose such other person or persons as they shall think ﬁt, to be a Com- mittee or Trustees in the place or stead of such Committee or Trustees, or of such party so re- moved by dcath or otherwise, as aforesaid: And every such person or persons, so to be chosen as aforesaid, shall have the like power, authority and controul, as either of them, the said Coni- mittee hereinbefore named, have, can, or may have, by virtue of these Presents, and shall and may act, in every respect, to all intents and pur- poses, as the said person or persons, in whose place or stead he or they shall be so nominated or appointed might have done, if he or they were or was living, or had not refused or declined to act, or had not been removed as aforesaid. In Witness whereof, we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals this Fifteenth day of Novem- ber, in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Twenty-four.

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Robert Woodside, James Mountain. (Signed) \Villiam Donalds James Brandon Edward M‘Kay John Thomson his John Sinclair x mark. Benj. Thomson William Donald Executors for Jas. Woodside, deceased

Andrew Woodside Dugald Stewart, sen. Alex. Mathews William Riely Joseph Murcliland James Allen

James Sinclair

Hugh Mathews Daniel \’Vatt

llll John x Power, sen.

(Signed)

Thomas M‘Nutt Donald Ramsay George Owen Matthew Stewart John Coughlan Francis Clark Archd. \Voodside

William lii‘Couglilan mzirlt. Dugald Ramsay his John Mathews x mark. Dugald Stewart,jr. iii’ John Taylor mm Donald M‘Gougan John M‘Kay, jun. Neal Ramsay

Malcolm M‘Kcndrick Lauclilin M‘Kend;-ick

-n=-rk- Edward Ramsay 'r . his M h ’ J ’

Dame] X Taylor att ew Stewart mark. James Stewart, jun.

Dugald Stewart

James M‘N°m II’: Malcolm Ramsay

mark. his George Ramsay x

mark.

Edward Mountain Iii. marlin

VVilIiam Stewart Thomas Pickering Thomas Coughlan Hugh Craig Jno. Craig Thomas Hunter Alexr. Anderson James Townsend, per Geo. Beairsto 2 P. Stewart, r Thos. M‘Nutt l alcolm M‘Gougan’ John Crozier

John Ramsay Robert Stewart‘ Charles M‘Nutt

John M‘Gougan, jun. his ' George Ellison 1:

mark.

William Beairsto George Beairsto Benj. Beairsto John Thomson \-Villiam Clark Chas. Stewart Geo. Thomson Daniel Montgomery James Woodside

Witness to the Signatures of Hugh Craig, Jolin Craig, and Thomas Hunter, (Signed) P. S. Macnutt.

Witness to the Signature of Alexander Ander- son,

Saml. Wilson '5? mark

(Signed) John Keir. Witness to the following Signatures, viz.:

P. Stewart, by his A ent, Thos. M‘Nutt,

J ‘"199 T°Wﬂl€l|d. by is A ent, Geo. Beairsto,

and Malcolm M‘Gougan, or himself, (Signed) P. S. Macnutt.

lastly, it is hereby further agreed and declared, by‘ and between the said parties hereto, that in case‘