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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 1,
Vesting of lands and buildings in the Corpora- tion.
Appoint
anent of new
Trustees.
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The Trustees of the Union Church in Hongkong" and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts of Justice and before all Magistrates in this Colony, and shal! and may have and use a common seal, and the said seal may from time to time break, change, alter, and make anew as to the said Corporation may seem fit; and the said Corporation shall have full power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate in this Colony and its Dependeneios, and also to invest moneys on mort - gage of any lands, buildings, messutages or tenements in this Colony and its Dependencies, or on the mortgages, or debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any Cor- poration or Company carrying on business or having an office in this Colony or its Dependencies, and also to pur- chase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels what- soever; and the sail Corporation is hereby further empowered from time to time, by deed or deeds under its seal, to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages and tenements, mort- gages, debentures, stocks, funds, and securities, goods and chattels, by this Ordinance vested or that may hereafter be vested in the said Corporation on such terms as to the said Corporation may seem fit.
3. The pieces or parcels of ground situate, lying and being within this Colony and registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 1219, Inland Lot No. 1803 and Inland Lot No. 1567 with the messages or tenements and build- ings thereon and the Mortgage of Inland Lot No. 472 dated the 28th January, 1905, and given by Ng Ping Sam to William Griffith Humphreys and John Christopher Thom- son to secure the payment of Three thousand Dollars and interest and the Mortgage of Section B of Inland Lot No. 187 and Section B of Inland Lot No. 187 A dated the 28th day of December, 1996, and given by Ng Shi Yook Hing, Wei Wah Yook, Wei Wah Song and Wei Wah Leen to William Griffith Humphreys and George Murray Bain to secure the payment of Ten thousand Dollars and interest and all moneys, securities for money, goods, chattels and eflects whatsoever the property of the said Union Church or purporting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation but subject as regards the said pieces parcels of ground, messunges or tenements and buildings, to the payment of the rents and observance and performance of all the covenants, conditions and reserva- Tions contained in the Crown Leases under which the same are now or may hereafter be respectively held.
4. In the event of any one of the Trustees herein specifically named or of any one of their successors to be appointed as hereinafter mentioned dying or remaining ont of the Colony continuously for more than 24 months or desiring to be discharged from the Trust or refusing or becoming unfit to act therein or incapable of acting therein a successor to the Trustee so dying or remaining out of the Colony continuously for more than 24 mouths or desiring to be discharged from the Trust or refusing or becoming unfit to act therein or incapable of acting therein shall be appointed at a meeting of the Sentholders--being Subseri- bers--of the said Church to be convened and held in ae- cordance with the provisions of Section 11 of this Ordinance provided that the fact of the said Trustee dying or remain- ing out of the Colony continuously for more than 24 months or desiring to be discharged from the Trust or refusing or becoming unfit to act therein or incapable of acting therein and the fact of the appointment of such successor shall by notified by the remaining Trustees or Trusted to the Colonial Secretary in writing and such notice shall be published in the Gazette and such publication shall be in all Courts and for all other purposes, sufficient evidence of such Trustee having died or remained ont of the Colony continuously for more than 24 months or of such Trustee having desired to be discharged from the Trust or of his having refused or becoming unfit to act therein or of his being incapable of acting therein and of the due appointment of such successor.
1911.
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