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Short title.

Incorpora- tion.

Powers of Corporation.

Property transferred

to corpora-

tion to pass

to successors

Appointment

of Regional

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A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 15-25.5.34.-2.]

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.

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 he cited as the "Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic" Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Regional Superior for the time being in the Colony of Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of 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 corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, 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, messages or Tenements, Mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of or upon the 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 inmovable 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, 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 being in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominie, or in the event of her ceasing to hold office as such Regional Superior, pass to her successor in such office when appointed.

5.-(1) Sister Mary Paul McKenna the present Regional Superior. Superior in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic. having furnished to the Governor satisfactory evidence of her appointment to that office, shall for the

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