FOREIGN JURISDICTION.

No. 8 of 1889.

479

hand and seal of the Judge, Magistrate, or officer acting or exercising jurisdiction in the country or place where the criminal lunatic was tried, and, in the case of expenses incurred in the maintenance of such lunatic during imprisonment or confinement, under the hand of the head officer of the prison or place of confinement.

- 1890.

No. 1 of 1890.

For the Incorporation of the Procureur Général in this Colony of the Society of the Missions Etrangères.

[28th March, 1890.]

1. The Missions Etrangères Incorporation Ordinance, 1890.

Short title.

Incorporation of Procureur Général in this Colony of the Society of the Missions Etrangères.

2. The Procureur Général in this Colony of the Society of the Missions Etrangères having placed in the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of appointment shall be a body corporate (hereinafter called the corporation) and shall have the name of "The Procureur Général in Hongkong of the Society of the Missions Etrangères," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts in this Colony, and shall and may have and use a common seal, and the said seal may 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 lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate in this Colony, and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements in this Colony, or on the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business or having an office in this Colony, and also to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever; and the said corporation is hereby further empowered by deed under its seal, to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, and yield up; mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, and securities, goods and chattels, vested in the said corporation.

*As amended by No. 1 of 1912.

†As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.

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