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(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 Powers of objects heretofore carried on both by the Trustees of the Corporation. 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 and 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 carry 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, messages 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- Execution of porate seal of the Corporation shall be sealed in the documents. presence of three Members of the Committee and shall be signed by three Members.
6.—(1) All those pieces or parcels of ground registered Vesting of in the Land Office as Marine Lot No. 295 and Inland Lot property. No. 2899, together with all rights, easements 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- Ordinances nance, 1919, shall at the time of the coming into operation 1925 and 10 of this Ordinance, be transferred to and be and become of 1919. vested in the Corporation.
(3) On the coming iuto operation of this Ordinance the Corporation shall in addition to the mortgages and charges referred to in section 6 (1) become liable for all debts and liabilities of the Trustees of the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong.
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regulations. majority of the Committee, make from time to time such regulations as may in their discretion seem desirable for