Enclosure 3.
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23 JUN 15
Report on an Ordinance.
entitled and Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Mother Superior in this Colony of the Society of the Soeurs de Saint Paul de Chartres" by which the institution known as the Asile de la Sainte Enfance and as the French Convent is oarrici
The object of this Ordinance is to provide for the incorporation of Mother Superior in this Colony of the Society of the "Sure de Saint Fa de Chartres", for the prupose of enabling that Society more conveniently hold and dealwith leasehold property in the Colony. It follows more or
for less closely the precedents of previous Ordinances passed/the purpose of incorporating other religious or charitable bodies.
Section 1 is formal.
Section 2 is in a common form.
Section 3 sets out the powers of the corporation more or less in accordance with previous precedents.
Section 4 is similar to the vesting olauses in the Saint John's Cathedral Church Ordinance, 1899, and in section 3 of the Zetland Hall Trustees Incorporation Ordinance, 1915.
Section 5 deals with execution of documents.
Section 6 recognises the present Mother Superior and provides for the notification of the appointment of future Mothers Superior.
Section 7 is the usual saving clause.
In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.
Attorney General,
I certify that adequate and timely notification was made of the intention of the parties concerned to apply to the Legislative Council of Hongkong for an Ordinance styled "An Ordi- -nance to provide for the incorporation of the Mother Superior in this Colony of the Society of the "Soeurs de Saint Paul de Chartres by which the institution known as the Asile de la Sainte Enfance and as the French Convent is carried on", before the same was brought into the Legislative Council. Such notification was
made in the manner following:-
Notification of the intention of the parties to apply for the said Ordinance was advertised in two issues of the Government Gazette on the 19th. and 26th. March, 1915, and in two issues of an English Newspaper circulating in the Colony, namely, "The South China Morning Post" on the 16th. and 17th. March, 1915. A draft of the proposed said Ordinance was further published in one issue of the Government Gazette on the 19th. March, 1915.
A proof of the notification was made before me in
Executive Council.
Arna
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Governor,&c..
10.5.15.
Hongkong, 18th. May, 1915.