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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST APRIL, 1899.

Notification

of changes in the con- stitution of the Church Body.

Incorpora-

4-(1.) All changes in the constitution of the Church Body shall be notified by the Church Body to the Colonial Secretary and published in The Gazette, and such publica- tion shall be deemed in all Courts and for all other purposes to be primâ facic evidence of such changes.

(2.) The Church Body shall, when required by the Governor, furnish to him satisfactory proof of the succes- sion, election, or appointment of any new member thereof.

5.-(1.) The Church Body as constituted from time to tion and ge- time shall be as heretofore and is hereby declared to be a neral powers of the Church body corporate under the name of "The Trustees of Saint Body.

John's Cathedral Church in Hongkong."

Vesting of the Church

and precincts Body, and ob- jeet thereof.

in the Church

Vesting of other proper

ty in the

Church Body.

Appointment

(2.) The Church Body by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in 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 Church Body may seem fit.

(3.) The Church Body shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements, of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate, for the purposes of this Ordinance or of the Church Body, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, mossuages, or tene- ments, 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 or kind soever,

(4.) The Church Body shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, 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 belong to the Church Body, upon such terms as to the Church Body may seem fit: Provided always that the power of sale hereby granted shall not extend to the Church or the precincts thereof without the consent in writing of the Governor.

6. The Church and the precincts thereof (a plan of which signed by the Director of Public Works and sealed with the Seal of the Colony was deposited at the Land Office of this Colony on the 29th day of April, 1892), together with all rights, easements, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and together with all the estate, right, title, and interest of the Church Body constituted under the Ordinance hereby repealed, shall continue to be vested in the Church Body for the sole and express purpose of a Church and to the intent that divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England shall be therein performed and carried on in accordance with the rites and ceremonies of the said Church, subject, never- theless, to the road and right of way delineated and coloured red on the said plan, which road shall be maintained as heretofore by the Government of the Colony: Provided always that if at any time the Church shall cease to be used as a Church for divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England shall cease to be performed and carried on therein in accordance with the said rites and ceremonies, the Church and the precincts thereof shall revert to and become the absolute property of the Crown, unless the same shall be sold or otherwise disposed of with the consent in writing of the Governor.

7.—(1.) All books, deeds, papers, and other documents hitherto kept at the Church or belonging and appertaining thereto, and all moneys belonging to or due or owing to the Church or to the Church Body constituted under the Or- dinance hereby repealed shall be the property of the Church Body for the purposes aforesaid.

(2.) All monuments, tablets, aud memorials in or about the Church shall be under the care and custody of the Church Body.

Administration.

8.-(1.) The Church Body may appoint, as occasion of chaplains may require, a chaplain and one or more assistant chaplains and officers. to perform and carry on divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England according to the rites and ceremouies of the said Church.

(2.) The Church Body may also appoint such other offi- cers and servants as may be necessary or expedient, upen such terms and conditions as it may think fit.