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(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1) the corporation shall not acquire any immoveable 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.

to cor-

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever trans- Property ferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall, in transferred the event of the death of the Procurator for the time being poration to in Hongkong of the Irish Province of the Order of Fran- pass to ciscans Minor, or in the event of his ceasing to hold office as such Procurator, pass to his successor in such office when appointed.

successors.

Procurator.

5.-(1) The Reverend Michael Francis Thomas Cham- Appoint- bers the present Procurator in Hongkong of the Irish Province ment of of the Order of Franciscans Minor, having furnished to the Governor satisfactory evidence of his appointment to that office, shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be the Procurator in Hongkong of the Irish Province of the Order of Franciscans Minor until the appointment in his stead of some other person as such Procurator.

(2) When any other person is appointed to the office of Procurator in Hongkong of the Irish Province of the Order of Franciscans Minor such person shall within three weeks after his appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of his appointment.

(3) A Notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment.

documents.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal Execution of of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the said Procurator or his attorney and shall be signed by him or his attorney, and such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds and other instruments and all deeds instruments and other documents and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such Procurator or his attorney.

rights of

and of certain other

persons.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed Saving the to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or the Crown Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by from or under them.