gage of any lands, buildings, messages or teuements in this Colony and its Dependencies, or on the mortgages, or debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any Cor- poration or Company carrying on business or having an office in this Colony, or its Dependencies, and also to pur- chase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels what- soever; and the said Corporation is hereby further empowered from time to time, by deed or deeds 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, mort- gages, debentures, stocks, funds, and securities, goods and chattels, by this Ordinan e vested or that may hereafter be vested in the said Corporation on such terms as to the said Corporation may seem fit.
3. The pieces or parcels of ground situate, lying and Vesting of being within this Colony and registered in the Land Office lands and as Inland Lot No. 1219, Inland Lot No. 1803 and Inland buildings in
the Corpora- Lot No. 1567 with the messages or tenements and build- tion. ings thereon and the Mortgage of Inland Lol No. 472 dated the 28th January, 1905, and given by Ng Ping Sam to William Griffith Humphreys and John Christopher Thom- son to secure the payment of Three thousand Dollars and interest and the Mortgage of Section B of Inland Lot No. 187 and Section B of Inland Lot No. 187 A dated the 28th day of December, 1906, and given by Ng Shi Yook Hing, Wei Wah Yook, Wei Wah Song and Wei Wah Leen to William Griffith Humphreys and George Murray Bain to secure the payment of Ten thousand Dollars and interest and all moneys, securities for money, goods, chattels and effects whatsoever the property of the said Union Church or purporting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation but subject as regards the said picces or parcels of ground, messages or tenements and buildings, to the payment of the rents and observance and performance of all the covenants, conditious and reserva- tions contained in the Crown Lenses under which the same are now or may hereafter be respectively held.
Trustees.
4. In the event of any one of the Trustees herein Appoint- specifically named or of any one of their successors to be ment of new appointed as hereinafter mentioned dying or remaining out of the Colony continuously for more than 24 months or desiring to be discharged from the Trust or refusing or becoming mufit to aet therein or incapable of acting therein a successor to the Trustee so dying or remaining out of the. Colony continuously for more than 24 months or desiring to be discharged from the Trust or refusing or becoming unfit to act therein or incapable of acting therein shall be appointed at a meeting of the Sentholders-being Subseri- bers of the said Church to be convened and held in ac- cordance with the provisious of Section 11 of this Ordinance provided that the fact of the said Trustee dying or remain- ing out of the Colony continuously for more than 24 mouths or desiring to be discharged from the Trust or refusing or becoming unfit to act therein or incapable of acting therein and the fact of the appointment of such successor shall be notified by the remaining Trustees or Trustee or by the Executor or Administrator of such remaining Trustee to the Colonial Secretary in writing and such notice shall be published in the Gazette and such publication shall be in all Courts and for all other purposes, snicient evidence of such Trustee having died or remained out of the Colony continuously for more than 24 months or of such Trustee having desired to be discharged from the Trust or of his having refused or becoming unfit to act therein or of his being incapable of acting therein and of the due appointment
of such successor.
5. The said Corporation shall permit the said Union Union Church and the buildings connected therewith now stand- Church to be ing upon Inland Lots Nos. 1219, 1803 and 1567 to be used, used as a
Church. occupied aml enjoyed as a Church for the publie 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 for the time being 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
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