Vesting of properties.
Execution of documents.
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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 Land Office at Victoria aforesaid and in the dependency of Kowloon and at Sowkewan and Aberdeen in the Colony of Hongkong as the Remaining Portion of Sub-section 3 (or remaining portion) of Section A of Inland Lot No. 58: the Remaining Portion of Section B of Inland Lot No. 58; the Remaining Portion of Sub-section 1 of Section A of Inland Lot No. 148; the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 148; Inland Lots Nos. 578 and 1370; and as Kowloon Inlaud Lots Nos. 168, 169 and 617; and as Sowkewan Lot No. 106 and as Aberdeen Inland Lot No. 77 together with all rights easements and appurten- ances (including all reclamation rights if any) belonging or appertaining thereto or therewith usually held occupied and enjoyed and together with any encroachments or rights respecting encroachments in respect thereof are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation subject to the payment of the rents and the performance of the covenants and condition's reserved by and contained in the Crown leases and extension of Crown leases thereof or in any licences relating thereto.
5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the person who is for the time being Mother Superioress in this Colony of the said Society or of her Attorney duly authorised and such deeds and instruments and all other documents instruments and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such Mother Superioress or her Attorney.
Appointment 6.-(L.) Sister Teresa Martinoia the present Mother of Mother
Superioress in this Colony of the suid Society having fur- Superioress. nished to the Governor satisfactory evidence of her appointment to that office shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be the Mother Superioress in this Colony of the said Society until the appointment in her stead of some other person as such Mother Superioress.
(2.) When any other person is appointed to the office of Mother Superioress in this Colony of the said Society such person shall within three weeks after her appoint- ment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of her appointment.
(3.) A notification in the Gazette under the band of the Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment.
Saving rights
7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed of the Crown. 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 Daughters of Charity of the Canossian Institute (best known as the Italian Convent) have acquired land in the Colony for the purposes of carrying on their charitable work. Difficulties 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 Ordi- nance. Similar incorporation has taken place in the past in the case of other Missions for similar reasons.
The present Bill effects such incorporation and contains the necessary provisions for evidencing the authority of the Mother Superioress for the time being.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
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