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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.
documents.
6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal Execution of 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.
the rights
Crown and
7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed Saving of to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or of the 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.
of certain other
persons.
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 the said Congregation for day scholars of the inhabitants of the Shamshuipo District, Kowloon, in this Colony and for the maintenance of a Hospital for the reception of sick, infirm, paupers, foundlings and others or for infected persons in the said District.
2. The Bill for this Ordinance follows the usual lines of such incorporation Ordinances, particularly Ordinances Nos. 18 of 1933, 6 of 1925 and 26 of 1915.