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[No. 4:16.4.30.-2.]

A BILL

Short title.

Incorpora- tion.

Appointment

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen.

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 Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen Incorporation Ordinance, 1930.

2.-(1) The Committee for the time being as here- inafter composed of the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen shall be a body corporate (hereinafter called "the Corporation") and shall have the corporate name,

<< The Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen ", and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal.

(2) The committee shall be composed of the follow- ing:

(a) The Bishop of the Church of England known as the Bishop of Vietoria, for the time being officiating in the Colony.

(b) The person for the time being performing the

duties of Harbour Master of Hong Kong.

(c) The person for the time being in charge of the business of Messieurs Jardine Matheson & Com- pany, Limited, in Hong Kong,

(d) Two persons who shall be nominated by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce with power to such Chamber to fill up any vacancy Occurring in any of such nominees from time to time.

(e) Two persons nominated by the Missions to Sen- men in London with power to such Missions to Seamen to fill up any vacancy occurring in any of such nominees from time to time.

(ƒ) A Representative of His Majesty's Navy ap- pointed by the aforesaid Members of the Com- mittee.

(9) Such other persons, one of whom must be the Honorary Treasurer of the Corporation, not exceeding at any one time four in number as shall from time to time be co-opted by the other Members of the Committee with power to the Committee to fill up any vacancy occurring from time to time in the co-opted Members.

The Committee shall have such powers and duties and shall hold such meetings as are specified in this Ordinance and in the Regulations in the Schedule hereto.

3.-(1) For the purposes of the nomination mentioned of Members in section 2 (d) and (e) a copy of a minute purporting to of Committee. be a copy of a minute of the Committee of the Houg Kong General Chamber of Commerce and a copy of a minute purporting to be a copy of a minute of the Com- mitteee of the Missions to Seamen in London respectively that a person has been nominated a Member of the Com- mittee shall be sufficient for the purposes of this Ordi-

nance.