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57 of 1911.

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57 of 1911,

Union Church Incorporation.

CHAPTER 318.

UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION.

For the incorporation of the trustees of the Union Church

at Victoria.

37 of 1950.

Short title.

Incorporation of trustees,

Appointment of new trustees.

[1st December, 1911.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Union Church Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The trustees of the Union Church in Hong Kong shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the said corpora- tion, and shall have the name "The Trustees of the Union Church in Hong Kong", and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in this Colony, and shall and may have and use a common seal, and the said seal may break, change, alter and make anew as to the said corporation may seem fit; and the said corporation shall have full 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 situate in this Colony, and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements in this Colony, or on the mortgages, or debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business or having an office in this Colony, and also to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever; and the said corporation is hereby further empowered, by deed under its seal, to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels, vested in the said corporation on such terms as to the said corporation may seem fit.

3. In the event of any of the trustees dying or remaining out of the Colony continuously for more than twenty-four months, or desiring to be discharged from the trust, or refusing or becoming unfit to act therein or incapable of acting therein, a successor to such trustee shall be appointed at a meeting of the seat-holders (being

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subscribers) of the said Church to be convened and held in accordance with the provisions of section 11, and the appointment shall be notified by the remaining trustees or trustee to the Colonial Secretary in writing, and such notice shall be published in the Gazette.

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4. The said corporation shall permit the said Union Union Church and the buildings connected therewith now standing be used as upon Inland Lots Nos. 1219, 1803 and 1567, and any other premises which may be substituted therefor, to be used, occupied and enjoyed as a church for the public worship of God and for preaching the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as well in Chinese as in English and other European languages according to the principles and usages of Protestant Evangelical Christians, and for the sole object of spreading the knowledge of Christ, as shall seem most agreeable to the word of God, and not for the purpose of introducing or supporting presbyterianism, independency, episcopacy or any other form of church order and govern- ment about which there may be difference of opinion, but under such form of church government as the seat-holders (being subscribers) of the Union Church shall direct, and also, subject to such direction, for the instruction of children and adults, and for religious and philanthropic purposes and for the providing of a residence for the minister or ministers.

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All deeds, documents and other instruments Seal, requiring the seal of the said corporation shall be sealed in the presence of two or more of the trustees, and shall also be signed by the secretary and by two or more of the trustees so present, and such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing thereof.

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6. All books, deeds, papers and other documents Vesting of hitherto kept at the Union Church or belonging or apper- property and taining thereto, and all moneys belonging or due or owing in corporation. to the Church, and all other property of the said Church, shall be the property of the said corporation, and all monu- ments, tablets and memorials shall be under the care and custody of the said corporation.

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