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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST JULY, 1893.
plishment of the objects and purposes thereof, and may at dis- cretion depute, by Regulations or otherwise, a portion or the whole of its power and authority to the Elected Committee. 7. The Board of Direction shall have power, with the consent of the Governor, to change or vary the corporate name and the common seal of the Society, 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 cause his name to be erased from the register.
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8. The Board of Direction shall have power to make, and when made, cancel, change or vary rules and regula- tious 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 the Society, and the discharge of its various duties. Pro- vided always that a copy of such rules and regulations shall, from time to time, be furnished to the Colonia! Secretary, and every such rule or regulation shall be subject to disallowance, alteration or amendment at any time by the Governor.
9. All questions which may arise at auy 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 in addition to his original 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,
13. The Board of Direction shall cause a register to be kept in which every person or firm desiring to become a member of the Society and being duly qualified shall, sub- jeet to the provisions of section 7, be entitled to have his name or firm name inscribed, and also shall cause proper books of account to be kept which shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of members of the Society and of any person whom the Governor may appoint in that behalf, and also shall within one mouth after the expiration of every year transmit to the Colonial Secretary a full report of work done during the previous year together with a true statement of the assets and liabilities of the Society and an account of their receipts and disbursements during the previous year, and such statement shall be verified on oath or by declaration before a Justice of the Peace by two members of the Board.
Such report, statement and account shall be published in the Gazette.
14. In case it shall at any time be shown to the satis- faction of the Governor that the Society has ceased or neglected or failed to carry out in a proper maimer the objects and purposes of its establishment as set forth in section 3 hereof or the objects and purposes of this Ordi- nance or to fulfil the conditions thereof, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by an Ordinance to be passed for that purpose, to repeal this Ordinance and to declare that the Incorporation hereby granted shall cease and determine and become absolutely void.
15. In case the Incorporation hereby granted shall cease under the provisions of the last preceding section, all the property and assets of the Corporation shall, for the pur- poses hereinafter mentioned, become vested in the Crown subject to the rateable payment thercout of the just debts and liabilities (if any) of the Society, to the extent of such property and assets, and the balance of such property and assets shall be applied by the Governor towards the objects for which the Society was established or such of them as His Excellency may, in his discretion, deem best.
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