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5. If in any cause or proceeding before any court or Costs. tribunal or in any other manner any party for whom any Crown Solicitor or Assistant Crown Solicitor appears or acts as solicitor obtains an order for costs against any other party such costs shall be taxed against and payable- by the party against whom the order is made and when recovered shall be paid into the general revenue of the Colony.

status.

C. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to con- Saving of fer a professional status as solicitor upon any person who professional has not been duly enrolled as a soliciter under section 21 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871, or to detract from the professional status of any barrister or advocate who is or has been appointed a Crown Solicitor or Assist- ant Crown Solicitor under the provisions of this Ordinance,

7. The Crown Solicitors Ordinance, 1911, is hereby re- Repeal. pealed.

Objects and Reasons.

The objects and reasons of the Bill are as follows:-

To regularize the appointment, status and powers of the officers who under the new scheme under which the legal work of the Government is being and is to be conducted are to be styled Crown Solicitors and Assistaut Crown Solicitors. The old arrangements under which the legal practice connected with the Government was carried on (other than through the Attorney General) by a private firm of solicitors has been altered and it has now been arranged that such work will be carried on substantially cutirely by officers of the Government, An Ordinance of temporary character (the Crown Solicitors Ordinance, 1911) was passed last year which it is proposed should be replaced by the present Bill.

JOHN A. BUCKNILI, Attorney General,

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 (*) and Lo Chun Shan ([]), Deacous of the China Congregational Church in Hongkong, and Tsang Pak Ling(), Sung Hok Pang (), Ng Yu Tsam (h) and Ma Ying Piu (), 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, messunges or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company, and also to

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