[Ord. 19 anno 1868.1 Idence allowed No. XXXIX. Governor upon the recommendation of the Bishop; and any lease or contract made or attempted to be made contrary to the provisions of this Section shall be null and void. 11. From and after the decease of any Incumbent holding any Term of Besi- Living to which a House of Residence is annexed, and in which he to Widows of shall have been residing at the time of his decease, it shall be lawIncumbents. ful for the Widow of such Incumbent to occupy such House for any period not exceeding Two Months after his decease, enjoying therewith the Curtilage and Garden belonging to such House. Receipts for amounts bor 12. The receipt for any amount borrowed under the authority of this Ordinance, by or on behalf of any Rector, Minister, or Curate, rowed, how to signed by the President and any three members of the Vestry, or be signed. by the District Curate and Chapel Wardens, as the case may be, shall be a good and valid receipt and acknowledgement for such amount to the Colonial Receiver General, or other Person or Body Corporate advancing the same. rowed to be deposited in Bank. 13. Every amount borrowed under the authority of this OrdiAmounts bor- nance, shall be deposited in one of the local Banks of the Colony, at the credit of the Vestry or of the District Curate and Chapel Wardens, as the case may be, and may be drawn out from time to time when required by cheques, signed by the President and any three members of the Vestry, or by the District Curate and Chapel Wardens, as the case may be. ther improve 14. If any balance shall remain in the hands of any such Vestry Balance to be or Curate and Chapel Wardens, the same shall be laid out in some applied to fur further lasting improvements in building upon the Land, or shall be paid and applied in discharge of so much of the principal debt as such balance will extend to pay, at the discretion of the Vestry or District Curate and Chapel Wardens, with the approval of the Bishop or Presbytery, as the case may be. ments, or in discharge of debt. erected sub 15. Every House required to be erected, purchased, repaired, or Houses to be added to as aforesaid under the authority of this Ordinance, shall be so erected, purchased, repaired, or added to, under the superintendence ject to ap proval of Colo. [Ord.19anno 1888.Л No. XXXIX. nial Civil En. against Fire. tendence and subject to the approval of the Colonial Civil Engineer; iner, and to and as soon as any such House is completed or purchased the In- be insured cumbent for the time being shall be bound to insure the same against Fire in such office and in such sum as may be approved by the Governor and Court of Policy; and should such insurance not be properly kept up by the Incumbent, the Colonial Receiver General shall be and is hereby authorised and required to deduct and retain the amount payable in respect thereof from the salary of such Incumbent and to pay the same to the office in which such Insurance shall have been effected. "by Incum lowance pro 16. In every case in which a House is now or shall hereafter Houses to be be provided for any Rector or Curate of the Church of England, kept in repair or for any Minister of the Church of Scotland, to whom an annual bents, and alSalary is assigned by Ordinance No. 10 of the year 1859, or by vided for the Ordinance No. 13 of the year 1868, or any subsequent Ordinance, purpose. the Incumbent for the time being shall be bound and is hereby required at his own cost and expense to keep such House in good tenantable repair, for which purpose an annual sum of One Hundred and Twenty Dollars shall be allowed to such Incumbent in addition to his salary from and out of the Colonial Treasury; and for the better ensuring the same being done, the Colonial Civil Engineer shall, once in each year, visit and inspect each such House, and shall by writing under his hand certify to the Governor the state of repair in which he shall find the same; and if he shall certify that any such House is out of repair, it shall be lawful for the Governor forthwith to cause the same to be repaired under the direction of the Colonial Civil Engineer and to defray the expenses from and out of the Colonial Treasury; and for the repayment of such expense the salary of such Incumbent shall be subject to the deduction of such portion of each monthly payment thereof as the Governor shall direct, and such portion shall be retained by the Colonial Receiver-General until the amount of such expenses shall be paid. 17. The provisions of this Ordinance shall extend and apply to Ordinance to apply to certhe Incumbents of Christ Church and Saint Philip's Church, and tain Incumto the joint Minister of Saint Andrew's Parish, for the time being respectively, bents. [Ord. 19 anno 1868.] Commencement of Ordi. nance. No. XXXIX. respectively, and every thing in this Ordinance authorised or required to be done by the President and any three members of a Vestry, may in the case of either such Incumbent or of such joint Minister be done by such Incumbent and Church Wardens or by such joint Minister and any three members of the Vestry of the said Parish. 18. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the publication thereof, SCHEDULE. Form of Mortgage Bond in the day of by the Reverend A.B., [or Curate of in the This Bond and Deed of Mortgage made and executed at County in the Colony of British Guiana, this in the year of our Lord Rector [or Minister] of the Parish of Parish of in the said County and C.D., E.F. and G.H., three of the members of the Vestry of the said Parish [or two of the Chapel Wardens of the said Chapelry] Witnesseth, and whereas the Vestry of the said Parish (or the Curate and Chapel Wardens of the said Chapelry] pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance No. 19 of the year 1868, intituled an Ordinance to provide for the establishment and maintenance of Parsonage Houses in the Colony of British Guiana," and with the consent in writing previously obtained of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of the Diocese [or of the Presbytery of have obtained the authority of His Excellency the Governor and the Honourable the Court of Policy of British Guiana to borrow and take up at interest on mortgage the sum of Dollars to be applied to the erection [or purchase] of a suitable House [or to the repairing or making additions to an existing House so as to render the same suitable, &c.] and the necessary Offices, as a Parsonage House for the use of the said A.B., and his Successors as appears by the Extract Minute of the Proceedings of said Honourable Court hereto annexed; and whereas J.K. [the Colonial Receiver General of British Guiana, being thereto authorised by the said Governor and Court of Policy, as appears by the Extract Minute of the Proceedings of said Honourable Court also hereto annexed, or an inhabitant of the County of, &c.] has agreed to lend and advance the said sum of Dollars upon a mortgage of the said living pursuant to the true intent and meaning of the said Ordinance, now therefore the said A.B., C.D., E.F., and G.H., for and on behalf of [the aforesaid Rector and Vestry or Curate and Chapel Wardens] in consideration of the said sum of Dollars this day well and truly paid to them, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do by these presents bind and oblige the said A.B. and his successors Rectors of the said Parish [or Curates of the said Chapelry] well and truly to pay or cause to be paid unto the said J.K, [Colonial Receiver General and his successors in office, or his heirs, executors, administrators, order and assigns] half-yearly and every half-year from the date of this mortgage the sum of Dollars being one-fiftieth part of the said Principal Sum and Interest at No. XXXIX.-XL. at the rate of per cent. per annum until the whole thereof shall be repaid; and that he and they shall and will continue such respective payments as long as he and they shall continue Rectors of the said Parish, [or, &c., as the case may be unless all the said Principal Money and Interest for the same shall be sooner paid and discharged, with authority on the Colonial Receiver General to deduct and retain the said several instalments of Principal and Interest by equal monthly abatements, from the salary of the said A.B. and his successors; and as security for the due and punctual payment of the said Principal Money and Interest at the times and by the instalments aforesaid, the said A.B., C.D., E.F., and G.H. for and on behalf of [the aforesaid Rector and Vestry or Curate and Chapel Wardens] do by these presents bind and oblige with right of first mortgage, the salary of the said A.B. and his successors, Rectors of the said Parish, or, &c., as the case may be] in order that in default of payment by the said A.B. or his successors of the said Principal Money and Interest at the times and by the instalments hereinbefore stipulated, the Colonial Receiver General may apply the said salary to the payment of the said Principal Money and Interest until the said Principal Money and Interest shall be fully paid and discharged with Costs and Charges. In testimony whereof the said A.B., C.D., E.F., and G.H. have signed these presents the day and year first above written in presence of the subscribing witnesses. [Ord. 19 anno 1868.1 No. XL. AN ORDINANCE WITH REGARD TO TRADING COMPANIES 66 [Ord. 21 anno 1868. Enacted 28th July, 1868, published the 29th following, came into operation on publication. [FRANCIS HINCKS, Governor.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament Preamble. held in the Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth years of Her Majesty's Reign intituled, "An Act for the Incorporation, Regulation, and "Winding up of Trading Companies," and another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act to Amend the "Companies Act, 1862," which Acts of Parliament are hereinafter referred to as "the Companies Act, 1862," and "the Companies "Act, rated Com "Act, 1867:" And whereas it is expedient to enact and declare that all Companies already incorporated or which may be hereafter incorporated under either of the said Acts of Parliament shall have the same power to hold Lauds and immoveable Property in this Colony as if they had been incorporated in this Colony under "the Companies Ordinance, 1864"; and also that provision should be made for facilitating the proof in this Colony of the incorporation of such Companies and of Deeds and other Instruments executed by or on behalf of such Companies: And whereas "the Colonial Company, Limited," was incorporated in England under the first recited Act of Parliament, and examined copies of the Memorandum of Association and of the Articles of Association thereof certified under the hand of GEORGE DEANE, Esquire, Assistant Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and the Seal of the Joint Stock Companies Registry Office in England, and the Certificate of Incorporation thereof under the hand of the Honorable EDWARD CECIL CURZON, Registrar of Joint Stock Companies in England, have been duly recorded in the Registrar's Office of the Counties of Demerara and Essequebo in this Colony, and divers transports of Plantations and other immoveable Property in this Colony bave been heretofore passed and executed to and in favour of the said Company: And whereas doubts have been raised with respect to the said Transports, and it is expedient to remove such doubts, and to confirm the said Trausports, and to declare and enact by Ordinance the power of the said Company to hold Lands and other immoveable Property in this Colony: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of British Guiana with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for any Company already incorporated, or Any Incorpo- which may be hereafter incorporated under "the Companies Act, pany may hold 1862" or "the Companies Act, 1867," to hold Lauds and other Lands, &c. immoveable Property in this Colony in the same manner to all intents and purposes as if such Company had been incorporated in this Colony under "the Companies Ordinance, 1864." 2. It shall be lawful for any Company already registered, or What shall be which may be hereafter registered, under either of the aforesaid corporation of Acts of Parliament, to deliver to the Registrar of the Counties of Company. evidence of In. Demerara |