Appoint- ment of treasurer and secretary.
Minutes.
Booke, accounts and audit.
Annual General Meeting of Board
Custody of moneya received.
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The Board of Governors may appoint a treasurer of the Hospital who shall be an honorary officer and may appoint from outside their own members a secretary or secretaries of the Hospital who shall perform such duties and receive such remuneration as the Board from time to time may determine.
12. The Board of Governors shall cause minutes to be made in books provided for the purpose-
Board;
(a) of all appointments of officers made by the
(b) of all the resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Board and of the committees appointed by them.
13. The Board of Governors shall cause proper books or accounts to be kept of all receipts and payments and the accounts of the Corporation shall be balanced and the financial state of the Corporation shall be ascertained under the superintendence of the Board once in every year as at the 31st December in every year and the balance sheet showing the financial state of the Corporation as on that date in each year shall be prepared. The profit and loss account and balance sheet shall be audited by an auditor or by auditors appointed by the Board and a copy of such account and balance sheet fully audited shall within seven days after the date of the certificate of the auditors thercon be sent by the Board to the Governor of Hong Kong.
14. A meeting of the Board of Governors shall be held not later than April 30th in each year and shall be called the Annual General Meeting and at such meeting a report of all the affairs of the Hospital with a Statement of Property belonging to the Hospital and a full account of all the receipts and expenditure of the Hospital for the year and a balance sheet drawn up as at the 31st day of December preceding shall be presented and at such meeting the auditors for the ensuing year shall be appointed, After the conclusion of each Annual General Meeting a special meeting shall be held at which the members appointed to replace the members retiring from the Board shall take office and the Board shall elect from among their own members a Chairman and Deputy Chairman and such other officers as they may consider necessary for the ensuing year.
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All moneys received for the purpose of being applied towards acquiring additional land or erecting buildings for the Hospital or for paying off any debt incurred for any such purpose shail on being received be paid to the Custodian Trustee for and on behalf of the Board,
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of surplus maneya.
All moneys at any time standing to the credit of the Investment general account which shall not be required for current expenses shall be paid to the Board of Governors and any investment from time to time held by the Custodian Trustee may be sold and the proceeds thereof invested in other investments as and when the Board shall direct.
17. Cheques shall be drawn under the order of the Board of Cheques. Governors and shall be signed by such persons in such manner
as the Board may from time to time determine.
18. The Board of Governors shall be at liberty to appoint for Appoint the Hospital a Resident Medical Officer or Superintendent who ment of
medical shall be a British subject and registered as a medical practitioner and mursing in the Colony and he shall exercise such functions as the Board staff. directs and receive such remuneration as the Board may from time to time determine. The Board may appoint other medical or technical officers for service in the Hospital either fur whole or part time and either in an honorary capacity or for such remuneration and on such terms as the Board may from time to time determine. The Board shall also be at liberty to appoint for the Hospital a Matron who shall be a British subject and have such qualifications as are necessary for a registered nursing sister in the Colony and she shall have such functions and receive such remuneration as the Board may from time to time determine. The Board shall also appoint an adequate number of nursing sisters who shall preferably but not necessarily he British subjects and also of nurses who shall be duly qualified to perform such duties as may be prescribed by the Governors or by the Resident Medical Officer or Superintendent of the Hospital or the Matron from time to time.
19. Any patient in the Hospital may be attended by his own Private medical medical attendant on the condition that he be so attended at his attendants. own expense and without any liability on the part of the Corpora- tion or of the Board of Governors or any member of the staff of the Hospital in respect of any act of commission or omission of the medical attendant attending such patient.
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Except as herein otherwise provided the Board of Rules for admission Governors shall have the sole right of making rules for and to deciding as to the suitability of any applicant for admission to Hospital. the Hospital and as to the continuance in the Hospital of any patient who may have been admitted and to decide and regulate the fees and charges to be paid by them. In urgent cases the admission of patients shall be in the discretion of the Resident