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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1892.
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The St. John's Cathedral Church Ordinance, 1892.
2. Ordinances Nos. 2 of 1847 and 3 of 1850 are hereby repealed.
3. The Church Body shall consist of the Right Reverend JOHN SHAW BURDON, D.D., Bishop of Victoria in Hong- kong, and the Reverend CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS HAMILTON, Clerk in Holy Orders at present acting as Chaplain of the said Church, and their successors in office for the time being and of six lay members, viz. :—
EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD, Esquire,
The Honourable FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER, CHARLES FORD, Esquire,
The Honourable JAMES JOHNSTON KESWICK, EDWIN MACKINTOSH, Esquire,
The Honourable NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES, all resident in this Colony and hereafter of the persons for the time being duly elected and appointed in the place of the above or any of them as their Successors in accordance with regulations to be made as hereinafter provided.
4. The Church Body as constituted from time to time shall be and is hereby declared a Body Corporate and shall have the name of "The Trustees of St. John's Cathedral Church in Hongkong" hereinafter in this Ordinance re- ferred as the Church Body and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sne 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 anew as to the Church Body may seem fit and the Church Body shall have full power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any land, buildings, messuages, or teuements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate for the purposes of this Ordinance or of the Church Body and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any land, buildings, messuages, or tenements or upon the mortgages or debeutures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any Corporation or Company and also to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever; and the Church Body is hereby further empowered from time to time by deeds under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, and yield up mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any such lands, buildings, messages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks and securities, goods and chattels or any that may hereafter be acquired by or be vested in the Church Body upon such terms as to the Church Body may seem fit.
Provided always that the power of sale hereinbefore granted shall not extend to the said Church and the pre- cincts thereof without the consent in writing of the Gov- ernor of this Colony for the time being.
5. The said Church and the precincts thereof (a plan of which signed by the Surveyor Ĝeneral and scaled with the seal of the Colony was deposited at the Land Office of this Colony on the
day of
1892), together with all rights easements and appurtenances there- unto belonging and together with all the estate right title and interest of the trustees thereof appointed under the Ordinances hereby repealed, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Church Body for the sole and express purpose of a Church and to the intent that divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England shall be therein performed and carried on in accordance with the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England subject nevertheless to the road and right of way delineated and coloured the said plan which road shall be maintained as heretofore by the Government.
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Provided always that if at any time the said Church shall cease to be used as a Church or divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England shall cease to be performed and carried on therein the said Church and the precincts thereof shall revert to and become the absolute property of the Crown, unless the same shall be sold with the consent in writing of the Governor for the time being.
6. Upon the coming into operation of this Ordinance all books, deeds, papers and other documents hitherto kept at the said Church or belonging and appertaining thereto and all moneys belonging to or due or owing to the said Church or to the trustees thereof elected or appointed under the Ordi- nances hereby repealed shall be handed over to and become The property of the Church Body for the purposes aforesaid
Short title.
Repeal.
Constitution
of the Church Body's
Nabies.
Incorporation of Church Body.
Transfer of Church and property.
Other properties.
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