CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
No. 36 of 1912.
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(2) The corporation by the name aforesaid shall have perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued and seal in all courts, and shall and may have and use a common seal, and may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the corporation may seem fit.
(3) The corporation shall have 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 situated and also to invest upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(4) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, or goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.
3. The corporation shall keep at its principal church or meeting place a register of the members of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong, and shall enter in such register the names of all such persons as are in the opinion of the corporation proper persons to be admitted as members of the said church. Such book is hereinafter referred to as the register of members, and the persons whose names appear therein as members of the church.
Church Body.
4. Upon the death or resignation or removal from office of any member of the Church Body aforesaid, a successor to the person so dying, retiring or being removed shall be appointed by a majority of the members of the church present at a meeting to be convened for the purpose by the corporation. The names of every person so elected shall be entered in the register of members with the date of election and particulars of the office to which such person is elected, and every such entry shall be signed by at least four members of the Church Body.