36
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 24.-The following Bill was read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 28th January, 1915:-
A BILL
Short title.
Incorpora- tion of {Trustees.
Vesting of property.
Appointment
of new Trustees.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Trustees of Inland Lot No. 31 and the buildings thereon known as Zetland Hall.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Zetland Hall Trustees Incorporation Ordinance, 1915.
2.-1.) The persons who have been certified by the Worshipful Master of the Zetland Lodge of Freemasons > No. 525 E.C. of Hongkong by a Statutory Declaration -made by him and filed with the Registrar of Companies on the seventh day of January, 1915, (namely, George Cobban Anderson, Robert Mitchell, George Arthur Cald- well, George John Budds Sayer and Donald Macdonality to be the Trustees of Victoria Inland Lot No. 31 situate in the Colony of Hongkong on behalf of the said Zetland Lodge of Freemasons (in this Ordinance hereinafter referred to as "the Lodge") and their successors in office who shall from time to time be certified as such by a Statutory Declaration made by the Worshipful Master of the Lodge for the time being filed with the Registrar of Companies shall together with the Worshipful Master of the Lodge for the time being be a body corporate' (in this Ordinance hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation ") and shall have the name
"The Zetland Hall Trustees" and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts in this Colony, and shall and may have and use a common seal.
(2.) The Corporation shall, subject to the licence of the Governor having been previously obtained in each case, have full 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 situate in the Colony of Hongkong.
(3.) The Corporation shall also have full power by deed 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 for the time being vested in it on such terms as may seem expedient to it.
3. The piece or parcel of ground registered in the Land Office of Victoria aforesaid as Victoria Inland Lot No. 31. together with the encroachments covered by the licence of the Governor dated the 3rd day of November, 1902, and together with all rights, easements and appurtenances belonging or appertaining thereto or therewith usually held, occupied and enjoyed is 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 of the same and the said licence.
4. If at any time after the passing of this Ordinance any one of the Trustees (other than the Worshipful Master of Zetland Lodge for the time being) shall die or shall have been absent from the Colony for more than twenty-four consecutive months (whether such absence commenced before or after the passing of this Ordinance) or shall cease to be a subscribing member of the before mentioned Lodge or shall desire to be discharged from the trust some other member of the Lodge may be appointed to succeed him by a majority of two-thirds of the members of the Lodge for the time being who are
*