Notification
of change in trustees.
Incorpora- tion and general
powers of the trustees.
Power to acquire property.
Power to dispose of property.
Use of seal.
Vesting of
property in Trustees. Saint John's Cathedral
Church and Precincts.
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(d) No act or decision of the Trustees shall be valid unless approved by more than half of the whole num- ber of Trustees.
(e) If any act be done or discretion be exercised by the majority of the Trustees, or if any instrument be executed in pursuance thereof, no such act discre- tion or instrument shall be questioned on the ground that the other Trustees, or any of them. did not concur or join therein, or objected thereto.
4.-(1) All changes in the constitution of the Trustees shall be notified to the Colonial Secretary and published by him in the Gazette.
(2) No such change shall be deemed to have been made unless it shall have been so published in the Gazette.
(3) The production of a copy of the Gazette con- taining any such notification shall be prima facie evidence as to the constitution of the Trustees.
(4) The Trustees shall when required by the Gover nor furnish to him satisfactory proof of the succession, election or appointment of any new member thereof.
5.-(1) The Trustees shall be a body corporate under the name of "The Trustees of the Church of England in the Diocese of Victoria Hong Kong" and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts and shall and may have and use a common seal and may break, change, alter and make anew the said seal.
(2) The Trustees shall have power to acquire, ac- cept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature and kind soever and wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mort- gages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any Government, municipality, corporation or com- pany, and also to purchase, acquire, and possess goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever, for the purpose of endowing, supporting, maintaining, carry- ing on or otherwise promoting the work of the Church of England in Hong Kong or elsewhere in the Diocese whether such work shall be of a religious, educational or social nature or otherwise.
(3) The Trustees, subject to the provisions of sec- tion 6, shall further have power by deed or writing under their common seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, reconvey, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of or deal with any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, goods and chattels or other property which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Trustees, upon such terms as to the Trustees may seem fit: Provided that nothing in this section contained shall be con- strued so as to authorise any breach of trust on the part of the Trustees.
(4) All deeds and other documents requiring the seal of the Trustees shall be sealed with such seal in the presence of the Bishop or his Commissary and shall be signed by such Bishop or Commissary and by two Trustees.
6.-(1) Saint John's Cathedral Church and the pre- cincts thereof (a plan of which, signed by the Director of Public Works and sealed with the seal of the Colony, was deposited at the Land Office on the 29th day of April 1892) together with all buildings, rights. easements and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and together with all the estate right, title and interest of the Church Body as heretofore constituted shall vest in