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No. 57 of 1911.
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UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION.
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, seil, convey, assign, surrender, and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and tene- ments, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, and securities, goods and chattels, vested in the said corporation on such terms as to the said corporation may seem fit.
· [a. 3, rep. No. 16 of 1912.]
of new trustees.
4. In the event of any of the trustees dying or remaining out of appointment the Colony continuously for more than 24 months, or desiring to be discharged from the trust, or refusing or becoming unfit to act therein or incapable of acting therein, a successor to such trustee shall be appointed at a meeting of the seatholders (being subscribers) of the said Church to be convened and held in accordance with the provisions of section 11, and shall be notified by the remaining trustees or trustee to the Colonial Secretary in writing, and such notice shall be published in the Gazette.
a Church.
5. The said corporation shall permit the said Union Church and Union Church the buildings connected therewith now standing upon Inland Lots to be used as Nos. 1919, 1803 and 1567, and any other premises which may be + substituted therefor, to be used, occupied and enjoyed as a Church for the public worship of God and for preaching the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as well in Chinese as in English and other Euro- pean languages according to the principles and usages of Protestant Evangelical Christians, and for the sole object of spreading the knowledge of Christ, as shall seem most agreeable to the word of God, and not for the purpose of introducing or supporting Presby- torianism, Independency, Episcopacy, or any other form of Church order and government, about which there may be difference of opinion, but under such form of Church government as the seat- holders (being subscribers) of the Union Church shall direct, and also, subject to such direction, for the instruction of children and adults, and for the promoting of religious and philanthropic purposes and for the providing of a residence for the minister or ministers.
6. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal Scal. of the said corporation shall be sealed in the presence of two or more
As amended by No. 10 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 10 of 1912.
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