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General meetings may establish rules for the management of such churches, &c., subject to the sanction of the consul, who shall transmit the same for his Majesty’s approbation.
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15. It shall and may be lawful for any such general meeting as aforesaid to make and establish, and from time to time, as occasion may require, to revoke, alter, and render, such general rules, orders and regulations as may appear to them to be necessary for the due and proper use and management of such churches, chapels, hospitals, and burial grounds as aforesaid, or for the proper control over and expenditure of the money raised by any such subscription as aforesaid, or otherwise in relation to the matters aforesaid, as may be necessary for carrying into execution the objects of this Act so far as relates to those matters, or any them: Provided always, that no such rule, order, or regulation as aforesaid shall be of any force or effect unless or until the same shall be sanctioned and approved by the consul general or consul for the time being appointed by his Majesty to reside, and actually resident, at such foreign port or place; and provided also, that the same shall by such consul general or consul be transmitted by the first convenient opportunity for his Majesty’s approbation; and that it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, by any order to be by him issued through one of his principal secretaries of state, either to confirm or disallow any such rules, orders, and regulations, either in the whole or in part, and to make such amendments and alterations in or additions to the same, or any of them, as to his Majesty shall seem meet, or to suspend for any period of time the execution thereof or any of them, or otherwise to direct or prevent the execution thereof, or any of them, in such manner as to his Majesty shall seem meet; and all orders so to be issued by his Majesty, in relation to the matters aforesaid, through one of his principal secretaries of state, shall be recorded in the office of the said consul general or consul at the foreign port or place to which the same may refer, and shall be of full force, effect, and authority upon and over all his Majesty’s subjects there resident.
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