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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JANUARY, 1892.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance for the incorporation of the Chair- man of the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage.
Be advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the
as follows:-
1. The Right Reverend JOHN SHAW BURDON, of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Doctor of Divinity, Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage, and such of his successors as shall hold the said appoint- ment and shall have placed in the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of such appointment, for the time being shall be a body Corporate (hereinafter called the said cor- poration) and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name of "The Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage" and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may 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 and the said seal may from time to time break, change, alter and make a new as to the said Corporation may seem fit, and the said corporation shall have full power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate in the Colony of Hongkong and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands, build- ings, messuages or tenements in the said Colony or upon the mortgages or debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securi- ties of any corporation or company carrying on business or having an office in the said Colony, 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, build- ings messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels by this Ordinance vested in the said Corporation upon such terms as to the said Corporation may seem fit provided that due notice of the appointment as such Chairman 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 lands, buildings, messuages and tenements si- tuate, lying and being within the Colony of Hongkong, registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 831, and all mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels in the said Colony at the time of the passing of this Ordinance vested or purporting to be vested in the names of THOMAS STRINGER, WILBERFORCE WILSON and WILLIAM CHESTERMAN HUNTER respectively, as Trustees of The Diocesan Female School now called the Diocesan School and Orphanage, and all monies, securities for money, goods, chattels, and effects whatsoever the pro- perty of the said Diocesan School and Orphanage or pur- porting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation, but subject as regards the said lands buildings, messuages and tenements to the payment of the rents and the observance and performance of all the cove- nants conditions, and reservations contained in the Crown leases or under leases or mortgages under which the said lands, buildings or tenements 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 Right Reverend JOHN SHAW BURDON, or his Attorney duly authorised or in the presence of any his successors holding the appointment of Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage or his Attorney duly authorised and shall also be signed by the said JOHN SHAW BURDON or his said Attorney or by his said Successor or his said Attorney and such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds, documents, and other instruments.
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 politic, or corporate, or other persons, except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from, or under them.
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