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12. At the formal opening of the Tung Wa Hospital, Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL, is reported to have said :-
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"He had been most particular in not interfering with the Chinese arrangement "of details, but great power of supervision was reserved to the Govern- "ment. The Hospital was to be inspected by the Registrar General, the “Colonial Surgeon, and any one whom the Gevernment might appoint. "Also lest the affairs of the institution should be mismanaged or the funds misappropriated, auditors could be appointed, and auditors had been appointed by the Government. Moreover, if it should happen that the "Committee declined and neglected the duties which it had solemnly taken upon it, the Government could pass an Act vesting in the Crown the "whole of the lands granted. He only mentioned these things because it "was well to keep all possibilities in view, and not because it was at all "likely that those who had shewn so much energy in promoting the work " would fail to carry it on.”
III.—The Organisation of the Tung Wa Hospital.
13. The preamble to Ordinance No. 3 of 1870 incorporating the Hospital reads :-- "Whereas it has been proposed by the said Governor His Excellency Sir "RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL to found a Chinese Hospital for the care "and treatment of the indigent sick, etc.”
Section 3 reads:-
The Corporation is created for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a public free hospital for the treatment of indigent sick among the "Chinese population, to be supported by voluntary contributions and
governed by a Board of Direction, etc.”
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The election of the Board, and the Board's powers are clearly defined in the said Ordinance, and section 14 reads:-
-The Hospital and all buildings and premises of the Corporation shall be open "at all reasonable times to the inspection of the Registrar General, the "Colonial Surgeon, and of any other person whom the Governor may ap-
point in that behalf.”
Section 16 reads :-
"In case it shall at any time be shown to the satisfaction of the Governor in "Council that the Corporation have ceased or neglected or failed to carry out in a proper manner the object and purposes of this Ordinance or to fulfil the conditions thereof............it shall be lawful for the "Governor, with the advice of the Legislative Council of the Colony, by "an Ordinance to be passed for that purpose, to repeal this Ordinance, "and to declare that the Incorporation hereby granted shall cease and "determine and become absolutely void, &c......................
And section 17 reads
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"In case the Incorporation hereby granted shall cease under the provisions "of the last preceding section, all the property and assets of the Corporation shall become vested in the Crown, subject to the rateable "payment thereout of the just debts and liabilities of the Corporation,
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to the extent of such property and assets, and in such manner as shall "be provided by the repealing Ordinance or by any order to be made in "that behalf by the Governor in Council.”