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General Committee.
Ladies
Advisory Committee.
Delegation of powers to Ladies' Advisory Committee.
Power to make re- gulations,
etc.
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(b) To provide facilities for the entertainment and re- creation of His Majesty's Forces in the Colony of Hong Kong.
(c) To provide the said facilities under the aegis of the Young Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong.
5. The first General Committee shall be Sir William Shenton and Messrs. Philip Stanley Cassidy and Alexander Somerled Mackichan, representing the Young Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong, and Mr. Frederick Charles Hall, the Reverend Lewis Bryan and Mr. George Gwinnett Noble Tinson representing the Subscribers to the Cheero Club Fund, together with the Chairman for the time being of the Ladies' Advisory Committee.
The first Chairman of the General Committee shall be Mr. Frederick Charles Hall, and thereafter the Chairman for the time being shall be appointed by the General Committee.
On the resignation, death, or other determination of the membership of any member of the General Committee, other than the Chairman for the time being of the Ladies' Advisory Committee, the General Committee shall appoint a successor, and in making such appointment the General Committee shall, unless there is good reason to the contrary, maintain on the General Committee three nominees of the Board of Directors of the Young Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong and three representatives of the subscribers to the Cheero Club Fund.
6. The Ladies' Advisory Committee shall consist of not less than six or more than twelve members. The first mem- bers of the Ladies' Advisory Committee shall be Mrs. Edith Lewis, Mrs. Eileen Bellamy, Mrs. Esme Henderson, Mrs. Ethel Tinson, Mrs. Nancy Fitzgerald, Mrs. Gladys Baskett, Mrs. Margery Bowes-Smith, Mrs. Helen Drummond and Mrs. Hildred Shellshear.
The Chairman of the Ladies' Advisory Committee shall be appointed by the Ladies' Advisory Committee.
On the resignation, death, or other determination of the membership of any member of the Ladies' Advisory Com- mittee any vacancy so caused shall, if the General Committee think fit, be filled by the General Committee on the recom- mendation of the Ladies' Advisory Committee.
7. The General Committee shall from time to time delegate to the Ladies' Advisory Committee such powers as the General Committee shall consider expedient, in order, subject to the directions of the General Committee, to vest in the Ladies' Advisory Committee the control and manage- ment of the Cheero Club.
8. The General Committee shall have full power to make regulations and by-laws :-
(a) For the control and management of any premises owned or occupied by the Corporation, and in regard to all matters incidental to the conduct of such premises.
(b) For the internal management, subject to the advice of the Ladies' Advisory Committee, of the Cheero Club.
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9. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the Power to Corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases acquire, of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, sell property. messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon mort- gage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels, goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1), the Corporation shall not acquire any immovable property in the Colony unless it shall have previously obtained the special consent of the Governor-in-Council in each case.
(3) The Corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, ex- change, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, mes- suages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, vessels, goods or chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Corporation, upon such terms as to the Corporation may seem fit.
10. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal Sealing of
of the Corporation shall be sealed in the presence of and shall deeds, etc. be signed by two members of the General Committee for the time being and the Secretary for the time being and all instruments requiring the signature of the Corporation shall be signed by such committeemen and Secretary.
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11. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed Saving of to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or the Crown Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or and of
of any other person except such as are mentioned in this certain other Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 24th day of January, 1935.
R. A. C. NORTH,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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