THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH MARCH, 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 140.
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His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council :-
Ordinance No. 12 of 1889.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, for the Incorporation of the Director, in Hongkong, of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for
China.
Ordinance No. 13 of 1889.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled "The Prison amendment Ordinance, 1889.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th March, 1889.
No. 12 OF 1889.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council thereof, for the Incorporation of the Director, in Hongkong, of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for China.
LS
BE
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
[29th March, 1889.]
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 soever 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 seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, de- mise, re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages and tenements, 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 may seem fit Provided that due notice of appointment as such 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
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
The Director, in Hongkong, of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for China to be a Body Corpo rate.
Lands, &c., now vested in Trustees to be vested in the Cor- poration.
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