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HONG KONG.
No. 20 OF 1934.
I assent.
W. PEEL,
L.S.
Governor.
27th July, 1934.
An Ordinance to provide for the Incorporation of the Regional Superior in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic commonly known as Maryknoll Sisters.
[27th July, 1934.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the "Foreign Mission Short title. Sisters of St. Dominic" Incorporation Ordinance.
2. The Regional Superior for the time being in the Incorpora- Colony of Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of tion. St. Dominic shall be a corporation sole (hereinafter called the corporation) and shall have the name of "The Regional Superior in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic" and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal.
3.-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) the Powers of corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, Corporation. purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind so ever and wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the Mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares 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.
(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, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
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shares or 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 trans- ferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in the event of the death of the Regional Superior for the time to successors being in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic, or in the event of her ceasing to hold office as such Regional Superior, pass to her successor in such office when appointed.
Appointment of Regional Superior.
Execution of documents.
Vesting of I.L. No. 2300
and N.K.I.L. No. 1419.
Saving of the rights of the
Crown and of certain other
persons.
5.-(1) Sister Mary Paul McKenna the present Regional Superior in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Doininic. having furnished to the Governor satisfactory evidence of her appointment to that office, shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be the Regional Superior in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic until the appointment in her stead of some other person as such Regional Superior.
(2) When any other person is appointed to the office of Regional Superior in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic such person shall within three weeks after her appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor furnish to the Governor satis- factory evidence of her appointment.
(3) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment.
6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the said Regional Superior or her attorney and shall be signed by her or her attorney, and such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds and other instru- ments and all deeds, instruments and other documents and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such Regional Superior or her attorney.
7. All those pieces or parcels of ground registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 2300 and New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1419 together with all rights, easements and appur- tenances thereto belonging or usually held, occupied or enjoyed therewith, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Corporation for the unexpired residues of the terms of years created by the Crown Leases thereof, subject to the payment of the rents and the performance and observance of the covenants and conditions therein contained and subject to all mortgages and charges in respect thereof.
8. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 26th day of July, 1934.
R. A. C. NORTH,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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