The Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex.
Part I.
For Regulating the Business Proceedings at Vestry Meetings.
1. Two clear days’ notice of every alternate Vestry Meeting (as hereinafter explained) shall be sent by the Vestry Clerk to each Vestryman, at his usual or last known place of abode; and such notice shall state the time and place of such meeting, and the business to be transacted, so far as the same is known, in its appointed order. Provided that whenever the period of adjournment renders two days’ notice impracticable, notice shall be sent as early as possible.
2. Meetings of the Vestry shall be held every Tuesday at three o’clock in the afternoon. But the Vestrymen shall be summoned only for every alternate Tuesday for general business. The business to be done at the other meetings to be confined to the issuing of orders for promoting the construction of works under the 76th Section of the Act, 18th and 19th Vic., cap. 120; unless at any previous meeting a resolution be adopted to make the meeting special for the discussion of a particular subject.
3. Every Vestryman, before taking part in any business at a Vestry Meeting, shall sign his name in the Vestrymen’s Attendance Book, to be placed at the entrance for that purpose.
4. If at the end of half an hour from the time stated in the Notice convening the Meeting there should not be nine Vestrymen present, the meeting shall stand adjourned until the following Tuesday, and the Clerk shall give notice accordingly.
5. The Chairman shall be elected at the precise hour stated in the notice, or as soon as Nine Vestrymen are present; and the first business at ordinary meetings of the Vestry shall be the reading, by the Clerk, of the minutes of the last Meeting, the Chairman shall move their confirmation, and if unopposed, such minutes shall be signed by the Chairman, by the Chairman of the Meeting at which the business recorded was done, and by one other Vestryman who was also present.
6. No motion or discussion shall be allowed upon the minutes, except as to their accuracy, and any objection on that ground must be made by motion, and no motion either for signing or non-signing the minutes shall be admissable.
7. The business shall be proceeded with, after the reading of the minutes, in the following order, viz.:—