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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST FEBRUARY, 1896.
NOTICE
TO ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
OTICE is hereby given that the Reverend CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB REUSCH, the President of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society in the Colony of Hongkong, and holding the said appointment, intends at an early date to apply to the Honourable the Legislative Council of Hongkong for a Bill for the Incorporation of the President in Hongkong, of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society, and for the vesting in such Corporation of certain properties at present vested in the Reverends RUDOLPH LECHLER, GUSTAV ADOLPH GUSSMANN and GOTTLIEB CHRISTIAN REUSCH together, or in the Reverend CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB REUSCH solely, or in other persons as Agents or Trustees of the said Society.
A Draft of the said intended Bill is subjoined.
MATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS,
Solicitor for the President in Hongkong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society.
1st February, 1896.
BE
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the President in Hongkong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society.
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. The Reverend Christian Gottlieb Rensch, President in Hongkong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society, and holding the appointment of the President in Hongkong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society and his successors holding the said appointment and having placed in the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of his appointment for the time being shall be a Body Corporate (hereinafter called the said Corporation) and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name of "The President in Hongkong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society" and 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 the said seal may from time to timo break, change, alter, and make anew as to the said Corporation may seem fit, and the said Corporation shall have full power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any land, buildings, messages, or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate in the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any land, buildings, nessu- ages, or tenements in the said Colony and its Dependencies, or upon the mortgages or debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any Corporation or Company carrying on business or having an office in the said Colony or its Dependencies, and also to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever; and the said Corporation is hereby further empowered from time to time by deed or deeds under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, and yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels by this Ordinance vested or that may hereafter be vested in the said Corpor- ation upon such terms as to the said Corporation may seem fit.
Provided that due notice of appointment as such President in Hongkong and of the proof thereof having been placed in the hands of the Governor shall be given in the Government Gazette and such notice shall be sufficient evidence of the said appointment and of proof thereof having been wade.
2. The pieces or parcels of ground situate lying and being within the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as sub-section A of section B of Inland Lot No. 681; section 4 of sub-section 5 of section B of Inland Lot No. 681; the remaining portion of sub-section 5 of section B of Inland Lot No. 681; sub-section No. 3 of section C of Inland Lot No. 681; the remaining portion of section C of Inland Lot No. 681: section of Inland Lot No. 681; the remaining portion of Inland Lot No.
The President in Hongkong of the Basel Evangolien! Missionary Society to be A Body Corporate.
Lands, etc. TOM LASTIN in the rustics in de vested In the Corporation.
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