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ARTICLE VIII.- -AMENDMENTS.

Section 29. Amendments to this Constitution, except Sections 2, 3, 4 and 7, may be made at any general meeting held under Section 10, provided that the proposed amendment shall have been sent in writing to the Secretary for examina- tion by the Board of Directors, and publication at least one month before the next general meeting, and that it shall be passed at such general meeting by a two-thirds majority of all members present at the meeting; and provided also that no such amendment shall be effective until the Constitution as so amended, is approved by the Governor of Hong Kong.

Objects and Reasons!

1. The Chinese Young Men's Christian Association in Hong Kong was formed in 1901 under the management of the Directors of the Association with the object of promoting the formation of Christian character and the cultivation of Christian spirit of service among Chinese young men.

2. As the Association developed the directors obtained from the Government the grant of two several pieces of land respectively registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 1757 and Inland Lot No. 2048 upon which the present Chinese Young Men's Christian Association Building at Bridges Street now stands.

3. These two lots of land are held by the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations as Trustees for the Chinese Branch of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation of Hong Kong and this committee has signified its desire to hand over these properties to the local Directors when they are incorporated as a corporation.

4. In order to secure perpetual succession it is proposed that the Directors of the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association shall be incorporated as a Corporation sole under the management of the Directors and the Bill now proposed follows in its main lines other incorporating Ordinances which have been passed from time to time.