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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, Sги APRIL, 1893.

Ordinance have the name of "The Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund," and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts of Justice, and before all Magistratos in this Colony; and shall and may have and use a Common Seal and the said Seal may from time to time break, change, alter, and make anew as to the said Corporation may seem fit. The said Corporation shall have full power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any laud, buildings, messages, or tenements of what nature or kind soever, and wheresoever situate in the Colony of Hongkong or elsewhere, and also to invest moneys on deposit in any Bank or Banks either in Hongkong or elsewhere on such terms as may seem expedient to them, or on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements in the said Colony or elsewhere, or upon the mortgages or debentures stock, funds, shares, or securities of any Corporation or Com- pany whether commercial, municipal, or otherwise carrying on business, or constituted for any purpose, in the said Colony or elsewhere; and also to purchase, acquire, and dis- pose of all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever. And the said Corporation is hereby further empowered, from time to time, by dced or deels under its Seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, and yield up mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of, or deal with any lands,buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages,debentures, stock, funds, or securities goods, or 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.

2. All lands buildings messuages and tenements (if any) situate, lying, and being within the Colony of Hongkong and all mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels in the said Colony at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, vested or purporting to be vested in the said GEORGE COBBAN ANDERSON, JOHN MCLEAVY BROWN, JAMES DOUGLAS CHRISTIE, Robert CookE, JAMES DICKIE, WILLIAM LEVY FORD, DAVID GILLIES, ALSTON O'DRISCOLL GOURDIN, FRANCIS ARTHUR HAZE- LAND, AUGUSTUS SHELTON HOOPER, GREGORY PAUL JORDAN, FRANCIS LINDSAY LLOYD, JOHN LOWRIE, MURDO MACÁCLAY MACKENZIE, RICHARD MARKWICK (Junior), EDWARD CONSTANT RAY, CECIL EDWARD REYNOLDS, and GEORGE LOMAN TOMLIN or any of them, as Trustees for the said Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund, and in particular all those pieces or parcels of ground situate in the said Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as section B of Rural Building Lot No. 9 and Inland Lot No. 235A. Subject nevertheless to the provisoes for redemption to which the same, or any of them, may respectively be subject ; and all moneys, securities for moneys, goods, chattels and effects whatsoever, the property of the said Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund, or purporting so to be, are hereby transferred to the said Corporation; but subject as regards the said lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements to the payment of rents, and the observanco and performance of all the covenants, conditions, and reservations contained in the Crown Leases, or under-leases, or mortgages, under which the said lands, buildings or tenements are now or may hereafter be respectively held.

3. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the said Corporation shall be sealed with the Seal of the said Corporation, and shall be signed by any two of the Trustees for the time being constituting the said Corporation; and unless the contrary he proved, the statement in any attestation that the two Trustees so siguing are two of the Trustees for the time being of the said Corporation shall be sufficient evidence of that fact.

4. Nothing herein contained shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen Her Heirs or Successors, or of any bodies, politic, or corporate, or other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance, and those claiming by from or under them.

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