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of such Missions to any purchaser and to give a good and valid title
thereto.
3.
Certain words are inserted at the end of the Ordinance which
run as follows: -
*Including the power to execute, vary or determine
any trust affecting the whole or any part of such
property."
The result of that will be that the Custodian will have power, if
thought fit, to either execute the trusts at present affecting the
property or to vary or determine the same. I mentioned this clause
to the Land Officer and examined some of the deeds affecting these
Missions in the Land Office. The Land Officer considers these
words are apt for the purpose aimed at.
4.
Whilst the Government ants to have power in appropriate cases
to vary or determine the Trust, it should be mentioned that for
some months past, since the deportation of enemy Missionaries, the
Church Missionary Society and the French Missions in this Colony
have been carrying on the charitable and beneficent activities which
were formerly carried on by the Berlin Ladies Mission to China, The
Basel Missionary Society and the Rhenish Mission (which are the Missions affected by the present Ordinance) for the benefit of
Chinese in this Colony.
5.
In my opinion this is an Ordinahoe to which His Excellency the
Officer Administering the Government may properly assent in the
name of His Majesty and on His behalf.
76.5. Porcod
Attorney General,