Appointment
of Warden.
Appointment of Members of Council.
Powers of
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The Council shall have such powers and duties and shall hold such meetings as are specified in this Ordinance and the regulations in the Schedule hereto.
3.(1) The Warden shall be appointed and may be removed by the Church Missionary Society upon the recom- mendation of or after consultation with the Council. During the temporary absence of the Warden the Council may appoint an acting Warden who shall, while acting, be a Member of the Council.
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(2) For the purpose of the nomination mentioned Section 2 (c) and (d), a copy of a Minute of the local governing body of the South China Mission of the Church Missionary Society and of the Nomination signed by the Patron and Warden respectively that the person has been nominated a Member of the Council shall be sufficient for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(3) The Certificate of the Colonial Secretary that any person was at the date of the Certificate or had been on some previous specified date a Member of the Council shall for all purposes be conclusive evidence of that fact.
4. (1) The Corporation shall carry on the work for Corporation, which the College was originally founded--namely, of offer- ing to Chinese youths a modern, liberal education, (special attention being given to the English language and literature) upon Christian principles, Protestant and Evangelical as professed by the Church of England.
Execution of documents.
Vesting of Property.
(2) The Corporation shall have power to acquire, accept, and grant leases of, take, hold and enjoy any lands, build- ings, messuages or tenements of whatever kind or nature soever and wheresoever situate, and also to build, rebuild, alter, vary, renew, maintain and repair any buildings, messuages or tenements, 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 and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of whatsoever kind or nature.
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(3) The Corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, pledge, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands. build- ings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities 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.
5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the corporate seal of the Corporation shall be sealed in the presence of two Members of the Council and shall be signed by two Members.
6.-(1) All those pieces or parcels of ground registered respectively in the Land Office as Garden Lot No. 76 and Rural Building Lots Nos. 314, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322 and 330 together with all rights, easements and appurtenances thereto belonging or usually held occupied or enjoyed therewith, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Corporation for the unexpired residue of the terms of years
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