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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH MAY, 1893.
succession and a common scal and with power to purchase, acquire, receive, take, bold and enjoy to themselves and their successors any lands, tenements, hereditaments, build- ings or other property of any kind whatever for the purposes of the said Society and shall and may sue or take proceed- ing and be sued in their corporate name in all Courts.
3. The corporation is erected for the purpose of establish- ing and maintaining a society for assisting the Government in the suppression of kidnapping and the protection of women and children; for aiding by correspondence and other means in the detection and bringing to justice of per- sous guilty of kidnapping and other kindred offences; for helping to restore rescued persons to their relatives or friends and for providing a home for rescued women and children until proper provision is made for their marriage, adoption, settlement in life or otherwise for their welfare.
4. The affairs of the Society shall be managed and its various functions discharged by a Permanent Board of Direction and an Elected Committee.
5. The Permanent Board of Direction shall consist of not less than five and not more than ten persons including the Registrar General who shall be ex officio the President and also the Member of the Legislative Council for the time being representing the Chinese who shall be ex officio the Vice-President. The first Permanent Board of Direction shall consist of the persons whose names are contained in the schedule to this Ordinance. Vacancies in this Board shall be filled up from time to time by the Governor who may call upon the continuing members of the Board for their recommendation, All appointments to the Board shall be held only during the Governor's pleasure.
6. The Board of Direction shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, have full power and authority to govern, direct and decide all matters whatsoever connected with the administration of the affairs of the Society and the accom- plishment of the objects and purposos ¿ereof, and may at discretion depute, by Regulations or offerwise, a portion or the whole of its power and authority to the Elected Com-
mittee.
7. The Board of Direction shall have power, with the consent of the Governor, to change or vary the corporate name and the cominon seal of the Scelety, and the amount of the donation to the funds of the Society hereinbefore prescribed as a qualification for hereafter becoming a mem- ber thereof, and may, with such consent as aforesaid, refuse to admit any person as a member of the Society or may expel any existing member, and canse his name to be erased from the register.
8. The Board of Direction shall have power to make, and when made, cancel, change or vary rules and regula- tions for their procedure in the transaction of business and the maintenance of good order at their meetings, and for the guidance of the Elected Committee, and generally for all matters relating to the administration and management of Pro- the Society, and the discharge of its various duties. vided always that a copy of such rules and regulations shall, from time to time, be furnished to the Colonial Secretary, and every such rule or regulation shall be subject to disallowance, alteration or amendment at any time by the Governor.
9. All questious which may arise at any meeting of the Board of Direction shall be decided by a majority of votes, and in case of an equality of votes the President shall have a casting vote.
10. The Elected Committee shall consist of not less than six and not more than twelve members of the Society, to be elected as hereinafter mentioned, who shall from time to time appoint one of their Body to be chairman; and every member of the said Committee shall hold office for the term of one year only, but shall be re-eligible at the expiration thereof.
11. The members of the said Committee shall be elected from time to time as occasion shall require by a majority of votes of members of the Society who shall be within the Colony at the time of such election, and every such member of the Society whether a firm or individual shall be entitled to one vote only.
12. The Elected Committee shall, subject to such Rules and Regulations as may from time to time be made by the Board of Direction in that behalf, undertake and exercise the immediate supervision and management of the work of the Society.
Power to hold In ls and sue and be suel in corporate naine.
Object and purpose of facorporation.
Management
of the society.
Termament Board of Direction.
Power of Board of Direction.
Further poweri
Power to make and alter rules and regulations.
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