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3. The leasehold properties specified in the Schedule, with one exception, stand, in the respective registers, either in the name of the present substantive holder of the office of Secretary for Chinese Affairs, or in that of a former substantive or acting holder of the office of Registrar General, or under the title Secretary for Chinese Affairs" or the title "Registrar General ". It is clear in all cases

that the intention was that the holder of the office for the time being should be able to deal with the legal estate, though this intention seems to have beem imperfectly effected in many of the cases. Registrar General” was until 1913 the title of the office now known as the "Secretary for Chinese Affairs ”. The one exception referred to at the beginning of this paragraph is S.I.L. 142. This is the site of a temple at Shaukiwan. The crown lease, which is for 999 veurs, was issued in 1877 in the Hue of Lan Ah Yeme A long search for Lam Ah Neung resulted in the discovery that there never was any such person as Lam Ab Neung and that the name was only put forward by the villagers to represent the goddess of the temple. In the case of S.I.L, 528, K.JL, 1647, K.I.L. 1686, K.I.L. 2004, K.I.L, 205, N.K.1.L. 36 and N.K.L.L. 552 no Crown lease has yet been issued and the lots are held on the conditions of grant in the name of the "Secretary for Chinese Affairs". Crown leases are about to be issued in these euses.

4. The vesting is in every case made subject to the Trusts on which the respective properties shall have been held immediately before the commencement of the Ordi-

manee.

5. Section 4 is drafted with the intention of enabling The officer for the time being performing the duties of the office to deal with the legal estate, whether he be the sub- stantive holder of the office or only an acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs. It is also intended to obviate the rule that a lease granted to a corporation sole passes to the personal representatives of the occupant and not to his successors : see Halsbury, Vol. 8, para. $21, p. 371, and Arundell's Case (1615) 1 Roll. Abr. p. 515, cited in Fulwood's Cuse (1391) 4 Co. Rep. 64 b, Note A.

6. Section 5 provides a means of resolving any doubt as to who is, or was at any date, the occupant of the corporation. The method adopted is that of a certificate by the Colonial Secretary.

7. The other sections of the Ordinance are common form in incorporation Ordinances,

5th January, 1928.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

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