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custody of the Council of Colonial Bishoprics at 29 Duke Street
in Westminster.
4. In 1851 the land must have been surrendered to the Crown
since in that year a Crown Lease of the property for 999 years
was made by Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the Bishop of
Victoria which was in the form usual for Crown Leases in
Hongkong but contained in addition to the usual covenants
a covenant that the land should not be used for any other
purpose than the promotion of the charitable designs and
objects of St. Paul's College as they might from time to time
be legally established, without the previous license of
the Queen.
5.
Subsequently by Letters Patent dated the 1st day of
November 1872 the said Letters Patent of the 11th day of May
1849 were revoked and the See and Bishopric of Victoria ceased
to exist as theretofore constituted.
6.
By Ordinance No. 7 of 1875 after reciting the said Letters
Patent it was provided that the said property should vest in
the Archbishop of Canterbury and that the then Bishop of
Victoria be named Warden of St. Paul's College and that the
statutes should be altered in such manner as the Archbishop
of Canterbury and the said Warden should think fit provided
that provision was made for the appointment and removal of
future wardens and for vesting the property of the College.
This Ordinance was later repealed and the Archbishop of
Canterbury surrendered the old Lease in 1911 and a new Lease
in similar terms was granted to him.
7.
8. By Ordinance No. 4 of 1925 the Bishop of Victoria was
incorporated and the property in question vested in him for
the residue of the term subject to the payment of rent and
the performance of the covenants and conditions reserved by
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