NOTICE
TO ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
OTICE is hereby given that the Trustees of the Union Church at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, intend at an early date to apply to the Honourable the Legis- lative Council of Hongkong for a Bill for the Incorporation of the said Trustees, for vesting in the said Trustees certain properties situate, lying and being at Victoria aforesaid and for the other purposes in the said Bill mentioned.
A draft of the said intended Bill is subjoined.
Hongkong, 22nd September, 1911.
DENNYS & BOWLEY,
Solicitors for the Trustees of the Union Church.
Short title.
Incorpora-
tion of Trus tees and their general powers.
Vesting of lands and buildings in
tion.
DRAFT BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Trustees of the Union Church at Victoria in this Colony,
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Commeil thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as " The Union Church Incorporation Ordinance, 1911 ",
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2. Messrs. John Whyte Cooper Bonnar, Duncan Clark, Alexander Stark Dalglish Cousland, William Griffith Hum- preys, Donald Macdonald, William Drew Braidwood and David Wood, the Trustees of the Union Church in Hong- kong, and their successors or successor and the survivors and the survivor of them aud the Executors and Adminis- trators of such survivor shall be a body corporate (berein- after called "the said Corporation") and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name "The Trustees of the Union Church in Hongkong
and by that navie shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sne and be sued in all Courts of Justice and before all Magistrates in this Colony, and shall and may have and use a common zeal, and the said seal may from time to time break, change, alter, and make anew as to the said Corporation may seein fit; and the said Corporation shall have full power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate in this Colony and its Dependencies, and also to invest moneys on mort- gage of any lands, buildings, messages or tenements in this Colony and its Dependencies, or on the mortgages, or debeatures, 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 said 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 Tuland the Corpora- Lot No. 1567 with the messuages or teuements 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
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