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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 15, 1939.

HONG

KONG.

No. 36 of 1939.

I assent.

L. S.

G. A. S. NORTHCOTE,

Governor.

Short title.

Incorpora- tion.

Succession and Seal.

Power to acquire property.

Power to dispose of property.

First Trustees.

15th September, 1939.

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Kowloon

Union Church.

[15th September, 1939.]

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 be cited as the Kowloon Union Church Incorporation Ordinance, 1929.

2. The Trustees for the time being of the Kowloon Union Church shall be a body corporate under the name of the Trustees of the Kowloon Union Church (hereinafter referred to as "the Corporation ").

3. The Corporation by the name aforesaid shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts 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.

4. The Corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of whatever nature or kind soever and wheresoever situated also any endowments of the Kowloon Union Church and the investments and securities representing the same, and also to invest monies upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements or upon mortgages, debentures stocks, funds, shares or securities of any Govern- ment, Municipality, Corporation, Company or person and also to purchase acquire and possess goods and chattels of whatever nature and kind soever.

5. The Corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, lease, 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, 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.

6. John Edgar Anderson, Leonard Starbuck, Robert Taylor, James Downey Thomson and the Reverend Frank Short having furnished to the Governor satisfactory evidence of their appointment as Trustees shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be the Trustees of the Kowloon Union Resignation Church until their respective death, resignation or the

termination of their respective appointments.

of Trustees.