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TO ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
TICE is hereby given that the Mother Superior in the Colony of Hongkong of the Society of the Soeurs de Saint Paul de Chartres, by which the institution known as the Asile de la Sainte Enfance and as the French Convent is carried on, intends at an early date to apply to the Legislative Council of Hongkong for a Bill for the incorporation of the Mother Superior of the said Society, for the vesting of Marine Lots Nos. 23 and 24 and Inland Lot No. 1698 and all rights in connection therewith in the said Mother Superior of the Society when incorporated and for the other purposes in the said Bill mentioned.
A copy of the proposed Bill is hereunder published.
Dated the 18th March, 1915.
DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON & HARSTON, Solicitors for the Mother Superior of the Society of the
Sœurs de Saint Paul de Chartres.
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BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Mother Superior in this Colony of the Society of the "Soeurs de Saint Paul de Chartres by which the institution known as the Asile de la Sainte Enfance and as the French Convent is carried on.
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 Sceurs de Saint Short title. Paul de Chartres Incorporation Ordinance, 1915.
2. The Mother Superior in this Colony of the Society Incorporation of the Sœurs de Saint Paul de Chartres shall be a body of the Mother corporate (hereinafter called the corporation) and shall have the name of "The Mother Superior of the Sœurs de Saint Paul de Chartres (Hongkong)" and by that name shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in this Colony and shall may have and use a common seal.
Superior in Hongkong of the Society of the Sœurs de Saint
Paul de Chartres.
Powers of the Corpora-
3. The corporation shall have full power:-
(a.) Subject to the licence of the Governor having tion. been previously obtained in each case 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 this Colony.
(b.) To purchase and acquire all manner of goods
and chattels whatsoever.
(c.) To invest moneys on mortgage of any lands buildings messuages or tenements in this Colony or in or upon such other securities or invest- ments as it may think expedient.
(d.) By deed under its seal or otherwise to grant sell convey assign surrender and yield up mortgage demise reassign transfer or otherwise deal with or dispose of any lands buildings messuages or tenements mortgages debentures securities shares goods and chattels for the time being vested in it on such terms as may seem expedient to it.
4. The pieces or parcels of ground registered in the Vesting of Land Office at Victoria aforesaid as Marine Lot No. 23 property. Marine Lot No. 24 and Inland Lot No. 1698 together with all rights easements and appurtenances (including all