860
[No. 15-26.5.36.-1.]
Short title.
Incorpora- tion of the
Superioress in Hong Kong of the Congrega-
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Superioress in Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sisters of the Precious Blood Order Incorporation Ordinance, 1936.
2. The Superioress for the time being in the Colony of Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood shall be a body corporate (hereinafter called the corporation) and shall have the name of "The Superioress of the Sisters of the Precious Blood" and in that name shall have the Precious Perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal.
tion of the Sisters of
Blood.
Power of the
3.-(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the Corporation, corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature og kind so ever and wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any govern- ment, municipality, corporation, company or person, and also to purchase acquire and possess other goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
Vesting of property.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1), the corporation shall not acquire any immoveable property in the Colony unless it shall have previously obtained the special consent of the Governor in Council in each case.
(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