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The Committee shall have such powers and duties and shall hold such meetings as are specified in this Ordinance and in the Regulations in the Schedule hereto.
3.—(1) For the purposes of the nomination mentioned in section 2 (d) and (e) a copy of a minute purporting to of Committee. be a copy of a minute of the Committee of the Hong Koug General Chamber of Commerce and a copy of a minute purporting to be a copy of a minute of the Com- mitteee of the Missions to Seamen in London respectively that a person has been nominated a Member of the Con- mittee shall be sufficient for the purposes of this Ordi-
Powers of Corporation.
Execution of documents.
Vesting of property.
Ordinances Nos. 5 of
1925 and 10
of 1919.
nauce.
(2) The certificate of the Colonial Secretary that any person was at the date of the certificate or had been at some previous specified date a Member of the Committee shall for all purposes be conclusive evidence of that fact.
4.--(1) The Corporation shall carry on the work and objects heretofore carried on both by the Trustees of the Sailors Home and by the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong, which, as regards the Trustees of the Sailors Home, is the care of officers and men of the Mercantile Marine irrespective of their religion aul also the provision of a suitable institute or home for the seafaring classes and officers and men aforesaid, and as regards the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong is the provision of an institute for and the spiritual welfare of the seafaring classes and in pursuance of such work and objects the use of every means consistent with the principles and received practice of the Church of England, and the Corporation shall continue to - earry on such work and objects.
(2) The Corporation shall have power to acquire, accept, and grant leases of, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buil- dings, messuages or tenements of whatever kind or nature soever and wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands buildings, messuages or tene- ments, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government municipality.cor- poration, or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of whatsoever kind or nature.
(3) The Corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, pledge, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, build- ings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Corporation, upon such terms as to the Corporation may seem fit.
5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the cor- porate seal of the Corporation shall be sealed in the presence of three Members of the Committee and shall be signed by thrée Members.
6.-(1) All those pieces or parcels of ground registered in the Land Office as Marine Lot No. 295 and Inland Lot No. 2899, together with all rights, casements and appur- tenances thereto belonging or usually held occupied or enjoyed therewith, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Corporation for the unexpired residues of the terms of years created by the Crown Leases thereof, subject to the payment of the rents and the performance and obser- vance of the covenants and conditions therein contained and subject to all mortgages and charges in respect thereof.
(2) All property and effects at the time of the coming into operation of this Ordinance belonging to and vested in the Trustees of the Sailors Home and the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong respectively as respectively. incor- porated by the Sailors Home Ordinance, 1925, and by the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong Incorporation Ordi- nance, 1919, shall at the time of the coming into operation of this Ordinance, be transferred to and be and become vested in the Corporation.