THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 13, 1919.
HONGKONG.
No. 10 OF 1919.
I assent to this Ordinance.
LS
CLAUD SEVERN,
Officer Administering the Government.
13th June, 1919.
An Ordinance to provide for the Incorporation
of the Missions to Seamen in. Hongkong,
[13th June, 1919.]
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 Missions to Short title. Seamen in Hongkong Incorporation Ordinance, 1919.
2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise Interpreta- requires :-
"The Bishop" means the Bishop of the Church of England known as the Bishop of Victoria for the time being officiating in this Colony.
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"The Chaplain means the senior Chaplain of the Missions to Seamen in Hongkong for the time
being officiating in this Colony.
tion.
3. The Bishop, the Chaplain, and such other persons Incorpora- as shall from time to time be certified by the Bishop tion. under his hand to be members of the Committee of the Missions to Seamen in Hongkong shall be a Body Corpo- rate under the name of "The Missions to Seamen in Hongkong" (hereinafter referred to as "the Corpora- tion").
4. The Corporation by the name aforesaid shall have Succession perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued and seal. in all Courts of Justice aud before all Magistrates in this Colony, and shall and may have and use a common seal, and may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the Corporation may seem fit.
hold property,
5. The Corporation shall have power to acquire, accept Power to leases of, purchase, take, bold and enjoy any lauds, build- acquire and ings, messuages or tenements of what nature
or kind soever and wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess steam-launches, boats and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind
soever.
6. The Corporation shall further have power by deed Power to under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, dispose of
property. exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassigu. transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds shares or securities, steam-launches, boats 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.
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