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ORDINANCE No.

32 OF 1961.

BIBLE PROTEST ANT CONGREGATIONAL BRITISH GUIANA (INCORPORATION) CHURCH OF ORDINANCE, 1961.

7 "July, 1961.

BRITISH GUIANA.

Arrangement of Sections.

Section 1.

2.

3.

4.

Short title.

Interpretation.

Incorporation Death or absence of the Board of Trustees.

from British Guiana of member of Board.

No.

32] THE LAWS OF BRITISH GU!Af,/A [A.D. 1961 2 Section �queathe4 .. for use of tht Church.

not to·, derogate from powers of of property.

5.


Vesting 6. of property Vesting Tenure of property 7.

Change of membership 8.

Board.

Exercise vided for by Ordinance.

,17 Evidence of membership Service Saving the rights Schedule.

of process.

10.

11.

12.

9. of Her Majesty.

,:.\.\ -' of the Boaro.

by Board of powers in matt(irs not specially pro- • AN ORDINANCE Church of British to incorporate the Bible Protestant Congregat ional therewith.

Guiana and £or purposes connected -\.D.

1961.


Enacted by the Legislature of British Guiana:- Short title.

l.This Ordinance gational Church of British Congre-,..# may be cited as the Bible Protestant 1961.

Ordinance, Guiana (Incorporation) - Interpreta­ tion.
2.In this Ordinance "the Board of Trustees" Trustees British this Ordinance; "the Church" Guiana constitu of America; Council" or elected of British Guiana, sions incorpora States "the Director" of the Church; "Executive appointed for the by-laws "the Field Organiser" Field Organiser ''member" "the Secretary" tary of the Church.
3.Allan Carlyle Miller, of the Bible Protestant or "the Board" means the Board of Congregational Church in means the Bible Protestant with the provisions ted in accordance of• Congregational Church being a branch of the Bible Protestant Mis­ in the United New Jersey, ted in Collingswood, means any person holding the office of Director T means the Executive Council of the Church in accordance with the constitution and time being in force of the Church; holding means any person the office of of the Church; means a member of the Board of Tru�tees; means any person holding the office of Secre-� Incorpor­ ation of the Board of Trustees.
of 256 New Garden Street, Street, Bourda, East Campbellville, of Lot 52 Triumph, East Coast, of 28 Sheriff Oscar Miller, Joseph Henry, Gift Profit of 169 Triumph, Wharton of 101 Fourth Avenue, , being respectively Georgetown; Coast, Demerara; Demerara; Leonard Demerara Organiser virtue their successovs the name of the Board of Trustees and two other members holding Subryanville, Secretary, office in that behalf by and East Coast, the Field 1 Council, and shall have Congrega-,r of their being appointed thereto by the Executive in office, shall be a body corporate the Director, the of the Bible Protestant East Coast, Demerara and A.D. 1961]BIBLE PROTESTANT CONGREGATIONAL [No.
32 CHURCH OF BRITISH GUIANA (INCORPORATION) 3 Guiana, with perpetual succession and a British sell, transport, deal with and dispose tional Church in common seal, and the Board shall mortgage, hold, enjoy, otherwise able, of what nature or kind soever, ance of any trust upon which that sue and be sued in all courts 4.
During the absence have full power to purchase, in�est and movable and immov­ lease, take on lease, of all property subject, property however, to the perform­ and may has been acquired, take, Guiana.

in British of any member from British Guiana or neath or of any member to act as such, or the subsist- _ by the Guiana o of the Board occasioned f �i:r�.
f the surviving or remaining all or any of the powers con- or inability the refusal ence of any vacancy in the membership death of any member or otherwise, may in the name of the Board exercise on the Board by this Ordinance.

ferred members er o ��=c�ritish 5.The property set out in the schedule to this Ordinance which immediately all the property this Ordinance was vested in the Bible Protestant Church in British appointed as aforesaid.
6.All property Guiana is hereby vested in the Board of Trustees prior to the commencement movable Congregational and immovable by will or otherwise of what nature or kind vesting of 0 given to the Church i:,re cfi:!fhed.

soever heret1.fter shall be deemed to be the property bequeathed of the Board.

and VestlnJ of of ����tl.;.

'', 7.All property vested in or hereafter acquired by the Board �;�i!

;ty° shall be held by the Board for the use and benefit of the Church.

for use of f the Church.


8.No change in the membership of the Board of Trustees shall ��t!r- o f derogate e y or any es a e or mteres erem.

P rt t t · t th · from the title or powers of the Board in respect of any pro-ship not to derogate from powers of Board.
Y' I '1 9.l n all mat:ters not specially provided as are possessed and exercised incorporate so far as may be practicable the Board shall, like power and authority P t M. · · d · C JI' rotes ant 1ss1ons United States laws, regulations, are not repugnant in British tive Council.
processes to, or in conflict or mies, regulations and its proceedings and practice with any Ordinance or by-laws of America, Guiana, JO o mgswo , ew ersey, Exercise by for by this Ordinance, and exercise possess the �g�e�s �; by the Bible matt_e11 not o<l N J · h specia Y m t e provided shall be governed by the g'idi�!nce.

of that body in so far as they made by -the Execu- or law in force 10.
A statement that any person named therein the Board of Trustees, purporting be prima facie evidence of the said fact.

11.All process which is required shall be deemed to be sufficiently served- to be signed by the Director is a member of Evidence of shall �I;1b0e;-the Board.

to be served on the Board service at proce&,j), (a)if a copy thereof Guiana, in British of residence (b)if a copy thereof is left with.
1he Director at any place or with an adult inmate at the place Guiana of the Director; or in British is published in the Gazette.

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32] THE LAWS OF BRITISH GUIANA [A.D. 1961 " t�e 12.

Nothing in this Ordinance �i��fsg Her MaJesty.

right of Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs and successors, or ,shall be deemed to affect any body politic as are mentioned or under them.
through or corporate or of any other person or persons in this Ordinanoe and those claiming of any except by, from, such Lot numbered of Triumph, Section 5.

SCHEDULE half of the township 53 (fifty-three) in the Beterverwagting Village Dis­ on the east sea coast of the county oJl Dernerara, Triumph by of Plantation March, the section trict, Guiana, L.M.
Nightinga 1911, and deposited 11th July, 1912, with the buildings as shown on a plan of a portion le, Sworn Land in the office of the Registrar dated the 20th and erections in the western Surveyor, and Triumph thereon.

British • at Georgetc'wn on situate Passed by the Legislative Council this twelfth day of July, nineteen hundred and sixty-one.

(Leg.

Bill No.

22/1961J.

}t;;�/J((� Acting Clef of &� 1 Legisyuure,( I I f .

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