Vesting of property.
Execution of documents.
Saving of
the rights
of the
Crown and of certain other
persons.
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(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.
4. The piece or parcel of ground known and registered in the Land Office as New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1114 with the messuages, erections and buildings thereon together with all rights easements and appurtenances belonging or appertain- ing thereto or therewith usually held occupied and enjoyed are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation subject to the payment of the rents and the performance of the covenants and conditions reserved by and contained in the Crown Lease thereof or in any license relating thereto.
5. (1) Sister Joanna Tam the present Superioress in this Colony of the said Congregation having furnished satis- factory evidence of her appointment to that office, shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be the Superioress in this Colony of the said Congregation until the appointment in her stead of some other person as such Superioress.
(2) When any other person is appointed to the office of the Superioress in the Colony of the said Congregation such person shall, within three weeks after her appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor, furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of her appoint-
ment.
(3) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment.
6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the person who is for the time being Superioress in this Colony of the said Congregation or of her Attorney duly authorised and such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds and other instruments and all deeds, instruments and other documents and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such Superioress or her Attorney.
7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Objects and Reasons.
1. The Superioress in this Colony of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood is the lessee for the residue of its term of the Crown Lease of New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1114 which is used for the education of Aspirants of the Congregation and the maintenance of a preparatory School for the same and of the Novices of the Congregation, as well as for the maintenance of a Girl's School to be conducted by