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TO ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of the CHURCH BODY OF THE China

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN HONGKONG to apply at an early date to the Honourable the Legislative Council of Hongkong for a Bill for the incorporation of the said Church Body and for the other purposes in the said Bill mentioned.

A draft of the Bill is attached.

DENNYS & BOWLEY, Solicitors for the

CHURCH BODY CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN HONGKONG.

Hongkong, 9th October, 1912.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation. of the Church Body of the China Congrega- tional Church in Hongkong.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the China Congre- Short title. gational Church Ordinance, 1912.

tion.

2.—(1.) The following persons, Yong T. Park (Incorpora- ), Pastor of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong, Cheng Kon Sang (#4), Li Yin Sz (李賢士)and Lo Chun Shan (羅春山), Dencons of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong, and Tsang Pak Ling (會百靈), Sung Hok Pang (未學鵬), Ng Yu Tsam(伍子簪) and Mn Ying Piu (馬應彪), Directors of the China Congregational Church in Hong- kong, and the survivors and survivor of them and their respective successors in office, Members of the Church Body of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong, shall be a body corporate under the name of "The Church Body of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong" (here- inafter referred to as the Corporation).

(2.) The Corporation by the name aforesaid shall have Succession perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in and Seal. all Courts of Justice and before all Magistrates in this Colony, and shall and may have and use a Common Seal, and may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the Corporation may seem fit.

(3.) The Corporation shall have power to acquire, Power to accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, 'acquire buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind property. soever and wheresoever situated and also to invest upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(4.) The Corporation shall further have power by deed Power to under its seal to graut, sell, convey, assign, surrender, sell property. 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 goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Cor- poration upon such terms as to the Corporation may seein fit.