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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH AUGUST, 1893.
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NOLDS, and GEORGE LOMER TOMLIN having placed in the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of their being the • present duly appointed Trustees of the Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund are, so long as they continue to be such Trustees, hereby created, and all others their Successors the Trustees for the time being of the said Fund, who shall have been certified as such on behalf of the Corporation by a Statutory Declaration made from time to time by the Secretary and filed with the Registrar of Companies, shall be a Body Corporate (hereinafter called "the said Corporation") and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name of " The Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund Corporation,” and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and way sue and be sued in all Courts of Justice, and before all Magistrates in this Colony; and shall and may have and use a Common Seal. The said Corporation shall have full power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any land, buildings, messuages, or tenements of what nature or kind soever, and wheresoever situate in the Colony of Hongkong or elsewhere, and also to invest moneys on deposit in any Bank or Banks either in Hongkong or elsewhere on such terms as may seem expedient to them, or on mortgage of any lands, buildings, nessuages, or tenements in the said Colony or elsewhere, or upon the mortgages or debentures of any Corporation or Company carrying on business, or constituted for any purpose, in the said Colony or else- where. And the said Corporation is hereby further em- powered, from time to time, by deed or deeds under its Seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, and yield up mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of, or deal with any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages or debentures, by this Ordinance vested, or that may hereafter be vested in or belong to the said Corporation, upou such terms as to the said Corporation may seem fit.
2. Whereas all those pieces or parcels of ground situate in the said Colony of Hongkong and known as Section B. of Rural Building Lot No, 9 and Inland Lot No. 255A are now registered at the Land Office in the names, as regards the said Section B. of Rural Building Lot No. 9, of the said DAVID GILLIES and AUGUSTUS SHELTON HOOPER, as Mortgagees thereof, and, as regards the said Iuland Lot No. 255A, of the said AUGUSTUS SHELTON HOOPER and DAVID GILLIES, as Mortgagees thereof, and whereas the said Mortgagees hold the said pieces or parcels of ground for and on behalf of the said Hongkong and South China Masonie Benevolence Fund. Be it enacted that the said pieces or parcels of ground be and the same are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation, subject nevertheless to the provisos for redemption to which the same are res; cetively subject, and subject also to the pay- ment of the rents and the performance of the covenants and conditions reserved by and contained in the Crown leases under which the said pieces or parcels of ground are re- spectively held.
3. All deeds and other instruments requiring execution by the said Corporation shall be sealed with the Seal of the said Corporation, and signed in manner provided by the byc-laws for the time being of the said Corporation.
4. The said Corporation may adopt the existing bye-laws of the Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Find so far as they are not inconsistent with this Ordi- nance and may (notwithstanding that such existing bye- laws provide that alterations therein can be proposed only at the annual meeting therein mentioned) from time to time alter the same, or may frame, and from time to time alter, other bye-laws for its internal management and control, and all such bye-laws, when agreed upon by the said Corporation, shall be binding on every member thereof.
A copy of the Bye-laws certified as correct by the Se- cretary shall be deposited and filed with the Registrar of Companies, and whenever such Bye-laws are altered a copy thereof as altered, certified as correct by the Secretary, shall also be forthwith deposited and filed with the said Re- gistrar.
5. 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, politic, or corporate, or other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance, and those claiming by from or under them.