Preliminary
Board of
Constitution and Duration.
ORDINANCE No. 3 of 1870.
Chinese Hospital.
Voluntary Contributions, and governed by a Board of Direction; Provided nevertheless that it shall be lawful for the Board of Direction to admit any Chinese Patients into the said Hospital upon Payment of snch Charges and upon such Conditions as may be specified in and by any Regulations to be hereafter made in that Behalf under Section X.
IV. For the First Two Years after the Passing of this Ordinance, the Board of Direction shall consist of the several Persons, whose Direction. Its Names are set out and contained in the Schedule thereto; and in Case any such Person shall die or desire to be relieved of his Duties, or shall cease to reside within the Colony before the Expiration of the said Terra, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to appoint in his Stead some other fit Person to be a Member of the said Board, during the Residuo of the said Term.
Its Powers.
Permanent Board of Direction,
Its Cons2 ~-
V. All the Provisions of this Ordinance relating to the permanent Board of Direction to be hereafter elected by the Members of the Corporation and all the Powers and Authorities thereby vested in such Board, shall so far as the Case permits be deemed to apply to and shall be vested in the Preliminary Board of Direction appointed under this Ordinance.
VI. At the Expiration of the said Term of Two Years, a permanent Board of Direction shall be formed consisting of not less than Six, and not more than Twelve Members of the Corpora- tion and Term tion, to be elected as hereinafter mentioned, who shall from Time to Time appoint One of their Body to be President; and every Member of the said Board shall hold Office for the Term of One Year only, but shall be re-eligible at the Expiration thereof.
of Office of Members,
Its Election.
Its general
Powers.
VII. The Members of the said Board shall be elected from Time to Time as Occasion shall require by a Majority of Votes of Mem- bers of the Corporation, who shall be within the Colony at the Time of such Election, and every such Member of the Corporation shall, until otherwise provided by any Regulation to be hereafter made under Section X, be entitled to One Vote only.
VIII. The Board of Direction shall, subject to the Provisions of this Ordinance, have full Power and Authority generally to govern, direct and decide all Matters whatsoever connected with the Administration of the Affairs of the Corporation and the Accomplishment of the Object and Purposes thereof and may appoint a Board of Management consisting of so many Members Management. of the Corporation as they shall think fit, who shall, under such Regulations as may from Time to Time be made by the Board of Direction in that Behalf, undertake and exercise the immediate Supervision and Management of the Hospital.
Board of
Special Pow- ers to be exercised with Consent of Governor in Council.
IX. The Board of Direction shall have Power, with the Con- sent of the Governor in Council, to change or vary the Corporate Name and the Common Seal of the Corporation, and the Amount of the Donation to the Funds of the Hospital hereinbefore pres- cribed as a Qualification for becoming a Member thereof, and the Term of Office of Members of the Board of Direction, and also may, for reasonable Cause and with such Consent as aforesaid,
refuse
ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1870.
Chinese Hospital.
refuse to admit any Person as a Member of the Corporation or may expel any existing Member, and cause his Name to be erased from the Register.
to Disallow-
X. The Board of Direction shall have Power to frame Re- Power to gulations for their Procedure in the Transaction of Business and frame Regu the Maintenance of Good Order at their Meetings, the Mode oflations subject Voting for the Election of Members of the Board of Direction and ance by the Appointment of the President thereof, and for the Guidance Governor in of the Board of Management and generally for all Matters relating Council. to the Administration and Discipline of the Hospital; Provided always that a Copy of such Regulations shall, from Time to Time, be furnished to the Colonial Secretary and every such Regulation shall be subject to Disallowance at any Time by the Governor in Council.
XI. All Questions which may arise at any Meeting of the Board Questions to be of Direction shall be decided by a Majority of Votes, and in Case decided by of an Equality of Votes, the President in Addition to his original Majority. Vote shall have a Casting Vote.
XII. In Case any Doubt or Ambiguity shall arise and any Questions of Controversy shall take place among the Members of the Board of Doubt or Direction as to the Interpretation of this Ordinance the same shall Ambigulty, be referred to the Governor in Council whose Decision thereon shall be final.
XIII. The Preliminary Board of Direction appointed under this Preliminary Ordinance shall, with all convenient Despatch after the Passing Board of thereof, proceed to elect a President, and shall cause all Buildings and Direction to
erect Hospital Works required for the Purposes of the said Hospital to be erected on the Site and executed out of the Funds of the Corporation upon the Site granted by granted by Her said Majesty as aforesaid, and the Members of the Her Majesty. said Board shall continue to hold Office provisionally after the Ex- Provisional piration of the said Term of Two Years, until the Permanent Board. Office. of Direction shall have been elected under the Provisions herein- before contained.
Extension of
Account to
XIV. The Hospital and all Buildings and Premises of the Inspection Corporation shall be open at all reasonable Times to the Inspection by Public
Officers, of the Registrar General, the Colonial Surgeon and of
any other Person whom the Governor may appoint in that Behalf.
XV. The Board of Direction shall cause a Register to be kept Register of in which every Person desiring to become a Member of the Cor- Members, poration and being duly qualified shall, subject to the Provisions and Books of of Section IX, be entitled to have his Name inscribed, and also shall; cause proper Books of Account to be kept which shall be open at all Annual reasonable Times to the Inspection of Members of the Corporation Statement to and of any Person whom the Governor in Council may appoint in be furnished. that Behalf, and also shall within One Month after the Expiration of every Year of the Chinese Calendar transmit to the Colonial Secretary a true Statement of the Assets and Liabilities of the Corporation and an Account of their Receipts and Disbursements
during
be kept.
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