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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 1, 1912.
Succession and Seal.
Power to acquire property.
Power to
Tsang Pak Ling (會百靈), Sung Hok Pang (宋學鵬), Ng Yu Tsam (T) and Ma Ying Piu (), Directors of the China Congregational Church in Hong- kong, and the survivors and survivor of them and their respective successors in office, Members of the Church Body of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong, shall be a body corporate under the name of “The Church Body of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong" (here- inafter referred to as the Corporation).
(2.) The Corporation by the name aforesaid shall have perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts of Justice and before all Magistrates in Colony, and shall and may have and use a Commons and may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the Corporation may seem fit.
(3.) The Corporation shall have 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 situated and also to invest upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(4) The Corporation shall further have power by deed sell property. 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 goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Cor- poration upon such terms as to the Corporation may seem fit.
Register of Members.
Filling vacancies in Church Body.
Conduct of
3. The Corporation shall keep at its principal church or meeting place a register of the Members of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong, and shall enter in such register the names of all such persons as are in the opinion of the Corporation proper persons to be admitted as Members of the said Church. Such book is hereinafter referred to as the Register of Members, and the persons whose names appear therein as Members of the Church,
4. Upon the death or resignation or removal from office of any of the persous named in sub-section 1 of section 2 hereof a successor to the person so dying, retiring or being removed shall be appointed by a majority of the Members of the Church present at a meeting to be convened for the purpose by the Corporation. The names of every person so elected shall be entered in the Register of Members with the date of election and particulars of the office to which such person is elected, and every such entry shall be signed by at least four members of the Church Body,
5. The services of the Church shall be regulated and services, &c. conducted by the Pastor of the Church for the time being-
in accordance with the principles of the Christian religion based upon the Old and New Testaments, and in accordance as far as possible with the practice of the Congregational Churches now in existence in Europe and America.
Power to make
6. Subject to the provisions of section 5 the Corpora- tion may from time to time make regulations for the ser- regulations. vices of the Church, and the management of its property and affairs generally. All such regulations shall be laid before a meeting of the Members convened for the purpose, and if approved by a majority of the Members present at such meeting shall be binding on the Corporation and upon all Members of the Church. A copy of any such regula- tions sealed with the Common Seal of the Corporation and countersigned by any four members of the Church Body shall be accepted as evidence of such regulations baving been regularly made and confirmed.
Removal of Members.
7. The regulations may provide for the removal from office or from membership of the Church of any member of the Church Body or the Church by the vote of at least two-thirds of the Members of the Church.