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Powers of Corpora- tion.

Transfer of property.

Number of Trustees.

Vacation of office by

Trustees.

New Trustees.

Their Appoint- ment and tenure of office.

be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal and may break change alter and make anew the said seal.

3. (1) The Corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situated and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, sheres or securities of any Government, municipality, corporation, company or person, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

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(2) The Corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messages, terements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares of Securities, or vessels or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Corporation, upon such terms as to the Corporation may seem fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever transferred to the Corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in the event of the death of any of the Trustees for the time being or in the event of any Trustee ceasing to hold office as such Trustee vest in the Trustees for the time being duly appointed.

5. The number of the Trustees shall be not less than three nor more than five.

8. The office of any Trustee shall be automatically vacated if such Trustee shall die or shall resign his office or if a resolution be passed at a meeting of members of the said Kowloon Tong Church requiring the resignation of such Trustee or if his term of office shall come to an end.

7. New Trustees shall be proposed for election by the committee at a general meeting of the members of the said Kowloon Tong Church and when elected shall (subject to the. provisions of the last preceding section) hold office for the term of five years from the date of such election. Trustees whose term of office has expired shall be eligible for re-election.

8. (t) Any change in membership of the Trustees shall Notification within three weeks of such change be notified by the publication of changes of a notice in the Gazette.

(2) No such change shall be deemed to have been made until a notification of such change has been published in the Gazette.

(3) The production of a copy of the Gazette containing any such notification shall be prima facie evidence of a change in membership of the Trustees.

(4) The Trustees shall when required by the Governor furnish to him satisfactory proof of the succession election or appointment of any new Trustee.

of

Trustees.

9. Ali deeds documents and other instruments requiring the Execution seal of the Corporation shall be sealed in the presence of three or

nd Deeds. more of the Trustees and shall also be signed by three of the Trustees so present and such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing thereof.

Manage-

10. A Committee of Management (hereinafter called "the Election of Committee") shall be elected from among and at a meeting of Committee the members of the said Kowloon Tong Church to be held within of three months of the coming into force of this Ordinance and those ment and elected shall appoint a Chairman, a Secretary and a Treasurer ment of appoint- from those elected. One third of the Committee shall retire Officers. annually bur shall be eligible for re-election.

removal of

11. The Committee may appoint a Clergyman or Pastor to Appoint- perform and carry on divine worship and the services usual in the ment and Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches and may also remove Clergyman him and appoint a successor and all matters connected with the or Pastor. religious services of the said Kowloon Tong Church shall be under the immediate direction of the clergyman or pastor subject to the control of the Committee.

12. The temporal affairs of the said Kowloon Tong Church Committee shall be managed directed and governed by the Committee. to control

temporal

affaira.

13. All books deeds papers and other documents belonging Custody of to the said Kowloon Tong Church shall be under the care and documents. custody of the Chairman of the Committee.