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In the Supreme Court of Hongkong.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
Action No. 46 of 1904.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GRANVILLE SHARP DECEASED,
Between ERNEST HAMILTON SHARP, SIT CATCHICK PAUL CHATER,
HERBERT SHARF, ROBERT BENTHAM AND ELLEN LYDIA BENTHAM HIS WIFE, JOHN NEGENT WELLS AND HARRIET ELIZABETH WELLS HIS WIFE,
and
...Plaintiffs.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG, THE RIGHT REVEREND GERARD Heath Lander, D.D., M.A., THE REVEREND HENRY COPLEY MOYLE, A., AND THE REVEREND J. KIRK MACONACHIE,
...Defendants.
WHEREAS the late Granville Sharp (hereinafter called "the Testator") who died on the 16th August 1899 by his Will dated the 7th day of June 1896 and Codicil dated the 13th October 1897 gave the residue of his Estate in trust for the erection and maintenance of a Hospital at Mount Kellet in this Colony To the Glory of God, and the good of men ; in loving memory of his sainted Wife Matilda Lincolne the same to be called "Matilda Hospital" AND WHEREAS the Testator as expressed in his said Will intended that special instructions as to the erection main- tenance and government of the Hospital should be added at the end of his said Will AND WHEREAS the only instructions given are those mentioned in the Codicil AND WHEREAS by a Decree of the Supreme Court of Hongkong dated the 2nd June, 1904 the Court (inter alia) ordered and adjudged that an enquiry be made by the Registrar as to the nature scope size and cost of the Hospital directed by the said Will and Codicil to be erected and maintained and as to the Endowment required for such maintenance with a view to the future expansion (if necessary) of such Hospital and that a scheme for the erection endowment and management of such Hospital be prepared by the Executors and Trustees of the said Will and Codicil. NOW THEREFORE in pursuance of the said Decree Sir Catchick Paul Chater and Mr. Ernest Hamilton Sharp, one of His Majesty's Counsel, the present Trustees of the Will and Codicil of the the Testator, have prepared the following scheme, which they place before this Honourable Court for the approval of the Court.