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     be determined by the V 
     
     the male members of the church present, being 
     
     of the age of twenty-one years, who may be 
     
     contributing from six shillings and upwards, 
     
     annually, and not in arrears, and any male 
     
     member of the church being of the age of 
     
     twenty-one years, and who may be contributing 
     
     annually from fifteen shillings and upwards, 
     
     and not in arrears, shall be eligible to hold 
     
     office as trustee. 
     
    

    
     III. The seal of said church and all deeds, 
     
     books, minutes, vouchers, subscriptions, obli- 
     
     ,gations and securities for moneys, and all and 
     
     ses‘ery description of property really and truly 
     
     belonging to the church, shall, immediate- 
     
     ly after the passing of this Act, pass into the. 
     
     custody and possession of the above named 
     
     trustees, and shall be by them transferred to 
     
     their successors immediately following them in 
     
     office as trustees. 
     
    

    
     IV. It shall and may be lawful for the said 
     
     corporation to contract for and purchase, or in 
     
     any lawful mode, whether by demise, bequests 
     
     «or otherwise, to acquire or obtain, either in 
     
     fee simple, for life'or for any term of years, for 
     
     the benefit of the said church, messuages, 
     
     lands, tenements, buildings in this Island, and 
     
     to take and receive the necessary legal convey- 
     
     ances, securities and transfers thereof, and 
     
     which said messuages, lands, tenements, real 
     
     or personal estate shall be and remain vested in 
     
     the said corporation to be used and disposed of 
     
     however for the benefit of said church according 
     
     to the dis’cretion of said corporate body. 
     
    

    
     V. It shall and may be lawful for the said 
     
     corporate body, for the time being, and they 
     
     are hereby authorized and empowered to grant, 
     
     sell, lease, exchange, mortgage, convey or 
     
     dispose of to such person or persons as they 
     
     think proper, and for such prices, sums, rents 
     
     or terms as shall be agreed upon, the whole or 
     
     any part of the said lands or premises now held. 
     
     or hereafter to be conveyed to or held by the 
     
     said corporate body, and to such extent and 
     
     proportion as they shall think proper, and 
     
     every deed or conveyance thereof, executed by 
     
     the said trustees in their name of office, under 
     
     their common seal, shall be valid in law to 
     
     convey, for years or otherwise, all such estate, 
     
     title and interest as the corporation of the said 
     
     Baptist Church have or may hereafter have in 
     
     the same. 
     
    

    
     VI. It shall not be liwful fdr the said cor- 
     
     poration to hold real estate for the use of the 
     
     said church which shall exceed in value and 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     yield at any time more than a clear not yearly 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ote of the majority o‘fincome of two hundred pounds currency of this 
     
    
   
   
    
     Island. 
     
    

    
     VlI. This Act shall be deemed a public Act, 
     
     and shall be judicially taken notice of as such 
     
     by all Judges, Justices of the Peace and 
     
     Ministers of Justice, and other persons Whom~ 
     
     soever without being specially pleaded. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act to naturalize Charles Otto VVInkler. 
     
     [Passed April 19, 1869.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     IIEREAS Charles Otto Winkler, intends 
     
    

    
     taking up his permanent residence or 
     
     domicile within this Colony, and is therefore 
     
     desirous of being naturalized, and has given 
     
     satisfactory assurance that he is willing to as- 
     
     sume all the duties and responsibilities which 
     
     may attach to him in the character of a good 
     
     and faithful subject of our Lady the Queen: 
     
     Be it therefore enacted by the Administrator of 
     
     the Government, Council and Assembly, as fol- 
     
     lows :— 
     
    

    
     I. The said Charles Otto Winkler, as soon 
     
     after the passing of this Act, as he shall take 
     
     and subscribe the Oath of Allegiance to ‘Her 
     
     Majesty Queen Victoria, Her Heirs and Sue- 
     
     cesors, in manner prescribed in and by this Act, 
     
     shall, within the limits of this Island, be and 
     
     become, and be held and adjudged to be a natural- 
     
     ized subject of Her Majesty, entitled to all the 
     
     rights and privileges of such subjects, as fully 
     
     as the same rights and privileges can or may be 
     
     conferred by the Legislature of this Island, and 
     
     under and by virtue of the Act of the Imperial 
     
     Parliament, passed in the tenth and eleventh 
     
     years of Her Majesty’s reign, intituled “ An 
     
     Act for the naturalization of Aliens.” 
     
    

    
     II. The said Charles Otto Winkler shall take ' 
     
     and subscribe, in duplicate, the Oath of Alle- 
     
     giance, before a Judge of the Supreme Court, 
     
     in open Court, and the Judge shall attest the 
     
     same. 
     
    

    
     III. One cepy of the Oath shall be filed by 
     
     the officer of the Court, who shall receive there- 
     
     for, and for making the duplicate, the sum of 
     
     five shillings, and he shall forthwith transmit 
     
     the duplicate, certified under his hand and the 
     
     Seal of the Court, to be filed in the Colonial 
     
     Secretary’s Office. ’ 
     
    

    
     IV. The officer shall also give a certificate, 
     
     under his hand and the Seal of the Court, that 
     
     the Oath of Allegiance has been taken, which 
     
     certificate shall be evidence of its contents, and 
     
     therefor he shall be entitled to the sum of five 
     
     shillings. 
     
    

    
     V. Nothing in this Act contained, shall be 
     
     of any force or effect, until Iler Majesty’s 
     
     pleasure therein shall be known.