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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST MARCH, 1896.
Lands, etc. now vested
in the trustees
to be vestad
in the
Corporation.
How the seal is to be used.
Rights of the Crown reserved.
Suspending clause.
ages, or tenements in the said Colony and its Dependencies, or upon the mortgages or debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any Corporation or Company carrying on business or having an office in the said Colony or its Dependencies, and also to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever; and the said Corporation is hereby further empowered from time to time by deed or deeds under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, and yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels by this Ordinance vested or that may hereafter be vested in the said Corpor- ation upon such terms as to the said Corporation may seem fit.
Provided that due notice of appointment as such President in Hongkong and of the proof thereof having been placed in the hands of the Governor shall be given in the Government Gazette and such notice shall be sufficient evidence of the said appointment and of proof thereof having been made.
2. The pieces or parcels of ground situate lying and being within the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as sub-section 4 of section of Inland Lot No. 681; section A of sub-section 5 of section B of Inland Lot No. 681; the remaining portion of sub-section 5 of section B of Inland Lot No. 681; sub-section No. 3 of section C of Inland Lot No. 681; the remaining portion of section C of Inland Lot No. 681; section of Inland Lot No. 681; the remaining portion of Inland Lot No. 681; Inland Lot No. 829; Sowkewan Lot No. 138; Kowloon Inland Lot No. 623 Taikoktsui; and Kowloon Inland Lot No. 650 Tokwawan; with the messuages or tenements and buildings thereon, and all mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels in the said Colony (if any) at the time of the passing of this Ordinance vested or purporting to be vested in the names of the said Reverend CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB REUSCH, the Reverend RUDOLPH LECHLER and the Reverend GUSTAV ADOLPH GUSSMANN OF some or one of them respectively as Trustee or Trustees of the said Basel Evangelical Missionary Society, and all monies, securities for money, goods, chattels, and effects whatsoever the property of the said Missionary Society or purporting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation but subject as regards the said pieces or parcels of ground, messuages or tenements and buildings to the payment of the rents and observance and performance of all the covenants, conditions, and reservations contained in the Crown Leases under which the same are now or may hereafter be respectively held.
3. All deeds, documents, and other instruments requiring the seal of the said Corporation shall be sealed with the seal of the said Corporation in the presence of the said CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB REUSCHI or his attorney duly author- ised or in the presence of any of his successors holding the appointment of President in Hongkong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society or his attorney duly author- ised and shall also be signed by the said CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB REUSCH or his attorney or by his said successor or his said attorney.
4. Nothing herein contained shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs or Successors, or of any bodies politie or corporate, or other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
5. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Governor of Hongkong notifies by Proclam- ation that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same; and thereafter it shall come into operation on such day as the Governor of Hongkong shall notify by the same or any other proclamation.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 10th day of March, 1896.
F. J. BADELEY, Aeting Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 17th day of March, 1896.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.