Saving rights of the Crown,
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(2.) When any other person is appointed to the office of Mother Superior in this Colony of the said Society such person shall within three weeks after her appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Gover- nor furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of her appointment.
(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.
7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King his heirs and 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 and under them.
Objects and Reasons.
The Sœurs de Saint Paul de Chartres (best known as the French Convent) have acquired land in the Colony for the purposes of carrying on their charitable work, Dif- ficulties have arisen, and may hereafter arise, in holding and dealing with such land as it has, at present, to be vested in the name of some individual in trust for the Convent. In order to get over such difficulties it is desired that the Convent should be incorporated by Ordinance. Similar incorporation has taken place in the past in the case of other Missious for similar reasons.
The present Bill effects such incorporation and contains the necessary provisions for evidencing the authority of the Mother Superior for the time being to act for the corporation in relation to such land.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
Short title.
Leave necessary for legal proceedings.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinance, 1914, and to give power to stay actions against alien enemies.
BE it euacted 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 Alien Enemies (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read and construed as one with the Alien Enemies (Wind- ing up) Ordinance, 1914, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance), and with the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1914.
2.-(1.) No action or other legal proceeding shall without the permission of the Governor be brought by or against any liquidator appointed under the Principal Ördi- nance in respect of the trade or personal affairs which such liquidator was appointed to wind up, or against any alien enemy whose trade or personal affairs a liquidator has been appointed to wind up.
(2.) Any such permission may be limited to the taking of such proceedings only as may be necessary in order to prevent the operation of any enactment whereby the com- mencement of the action or legal proceeding might be limited.
(3.) No further proceeding of any kind whatsoever shall without the permission of the Governor be taken in any action or other legal proceeding which was begun before the commencement of this Ordinance by or against any