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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH MARCH, 1889.
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A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Director, in Hongkong, of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for China.
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E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---
1. The Reverend FERDINAND ERNEST WILHELM Hart- MANN, Director in Hongkong, of the Berlin Foundling House and holding the appointment of the Director in Hongkong, of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for China and his successors holding the said appointment, and having placed in the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of his appointment for the time being shall be a Body Corporate (hereinafter called the said Corporation) and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name of "The Director, in Hong- kong, of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for China" and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts of Justice and before all Magis- trates 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 said Corporation may seem fit, and 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 soover and wheresoever situate in the Colony of Hongkong and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements in the said Colony 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, and also to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels what- soever, and the said Corporation is hereby further empower- ed from time to time by deed or deeds under its scal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, de- mise, re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages and teuements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels by this Ordinance vested, or that may hereafter be vested in the said Corporation upon such terms as to the said Corporation inay seem fit Provided that due notice of such appointment as Director, 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 lands, buildings, messuages and tenements situate, lying and being within the Colony of Hongkong registered in the Land Office as Inland Lots Nos. 607 and 624 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 BERTOLD FRIEDRICH JOHANN SCHWARZKOPF, the late Reverend ERNEST KLITZKE, GUSTAV ÖVERBECK and FEDRICH AUGUST JULIUS MENKE respectively as Trustees of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for China or the Berlin Mission Foundling Asylum, and all monies, secu- rities for money, goods, chattels, and effects whatsoever, the property of the said Mission or purporting 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 obser- vance and performance of all the covenants, 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 respecively held. 3. All Deeds, documents and other instruments re- quiring the Seal of the said Corporation shall be scaled with the Seal of the said Corporation in the presence of the Reverend FERDINAND ERNEST WILHELM HARTMANN or his Attorney duly authorised or in the presence of any his Successor holding the appointment of Director, in Hong- kong, of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for China, or his At- orney duly authorised and shall also be signed by the said Reverend FERDINAND ERNEST WILHELM HARTMANN 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 scaling 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.
The Director, in Hongkong of the Berlin, Ladies' Mission for China to be Body Corpo-
rate.
Lande, &c., now Tested in Trustees to be vested in the Cor- poration.
How the Seal is to be used.
Rights of the Crown re- served.
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