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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 17, 1911.
(i.) The moveable property of such Society, if not Property
vested in trustees, shall be deemed to be vested how deemed for the time being in the governing body of to be vested. such Society, and in all proceedings eivil and criminal may be described as the property of the governing body of such Society by their proper title.
(i.) Every such Society may sue or be sued in the Society how
name of such one of its members as shall be to sue and declared to and registered by the Registrar of be sued. Societies as the publie officer of the Society for this purpose, and, if no such person shall be registered, it shall be competent for any person having a claim or demand against the Society to sue the Society in the name of any person registered as a manager of the Society.
(iii) No suit or proceeding in any Civil Court shall Suits not
abate or discontinue by reason of the person by to abate by or against whom such suit or proceeding shall death, etc. have been brought or continued dying, or ceas- ing to fill the character in the name whereof he shall have sued or been sued, but the same suit
or proceeding shall be continued in the name of or against the successor of such person.
(iv.) No judgment in any suit shall be put in force Judgments
against the person or property of the person sued, how to be but against the property of the Society. The put in forec. application for execution shall set forth the judgment, the fact of the party against whom it shall have been recovered having sued or having been sued, as the case may be, on behalf of the Society only, and shall require to have the judgment enforced against the property of the Society.
(v.) Any member who may be in arrear of a sub- Civil pro-
scription, which, according to the rules of the ceedings
against Society, he is bound to pay, or who shall in ember. possess himself of or detain any property of the Society in a manner or for a time contrary to such rules, or shall injure or destroy any pro- perty of the Society, may be sued for such arrear or for the damage accruing from such detention, injury or destruction of property in the manner hereiubefore provided. But, if the defendant shall be successful in any suit or other proceedings brought against him at the instance of the Society, and shall be adjudged to recover his costs, he may elect to proceed to recover the same from the officer in whose name the suit shall be brought, or from the Society, and in the latter case shall have process against the property of the said Society in the manner above described.
(vi.) Any number not less than three-fifths of the Dissolution menibers for the time being resident in the of Societies
how may be Colony of any Society may determine that it
had. shall be dissolved forthwith, or at the time then agreed upon, and all necessary steps shall be taken for the disposal and settlement of the property of the Society, its claims and liabilities according to the rules of the said Society appli- cable thereto (if any), and, if not, then as the governing body shall find expedient, provided that, in the event of any dispute arising among the said governing body or the members of the Society, the adjustment of its affairs shall be referred to the Supreme Court, and the Court shall make sich order in the matter as it shall deem requisite. Provided that no Society shall Proviso. be dissolved unless three-fifths of the members so resident as aforesaid shall have expressed a wish for such dissolution by their votes deli- vered in person or by proxy at a general meet- ing convened for the purpose.