ORDINANCES Nos . 14 AND 15 OF 1886 . 1987
Dominican Mission Incorporation. Peace Preservation.
chattels , and effects whatsoever, the property of the said missions or
purporting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the said
corporation, but subject as regards the said lands , buildings, messuages
and tenements to the payment of rents and the observance and perform
ance of all the covenants, conditions and reservations contained in the
Crown leases or under leases or mortgages under which the said lands ,
buildings or tenements are now or may hereafter be respectively held .
3. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the said How the seal
is to be used.
corporation shall be sealed with the seal of the said corporation in the
presence of the Very Reverend FERNANDO SAINZ or his attorney duly
authorised or in the presence of any his successor holding the appointment
of Procurator, in Hongkong, for the Dominican Missions in the Far East,
or his attorney duly authorised and shall also be signed by the said Very
Reverend FERNANDO SAINZ or his said attorney or by his said successor
or his said attorney.
4. Nothing herein contained shall affect or be deemed to affect the Rights of the
Crown re
rights of Her Majesty the Queen , her heirs or successors , or of any bodies served.
politic , or corporate, or other persons , except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance, and those claiming by, from, or under them .
No. 15 of 1886 .
An Ordinance entitled The Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886 .
[ 2nd June, 1886. ]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
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Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
PART I.
Appointment of special constables.
1. Whenever it appears to the Governor that any tumult or riot Power to ap
point special
has taken place , or may be reasonably apprehended , and that the ordi constables.
nary officers appointed for preserving the peace are not sufficient for the
preservation of the peace, it shall be lawful for the Governor to authorize
any Magistrate to summon , by writing in the form in schedule ( A ) ,
before him, any number of persons resident, or being then within the