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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH JUNE, 1892.
sned 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, assigu, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, build- ings messuagos, 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.
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 Diocesati School and Orphanage or pur- porting so to be are hereby transferred to and vestedin the Said Corporation, but subject as regards the said lands, buildings, messages and tenements to the payment of the rents and the observance and performance of all the cove- nants conditions, aud 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 the presence of the Chairman for the time being of the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage or his Attorney duly authorised and shall also be signed by the said Chairman or his Attorney duly authorized 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.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 23rd day of May, 1892.
A. M. THOMSON, Meting Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor the 28th day of May, 1892.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial secretary.