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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1892.
10. 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 Elective 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 Colonial Secretary, and every such rule or regulation shall be subject to disallowance at any time by the Governor.
11. All questions 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.
12. In case any doubt or ambiguity shall arise and any controversy shall take place among the members of the Board of Direction as to the interpretation of this Ordinance the same shall be referred to the Governor whose decision thereon shall be final.
13. The Board of Direction appointed under this Ordi- nance shall, with all convenient despatch after the passing thereof, cause all buildings and works required for the purposes of the said Society to be erected and executed out of the funds of the Society from whatever source de- rived upon the site opposite the Tung Wa Hospital and approved by His Excellency the Governor. Such buildings and works shall be kept and maintained for the objects and purposes specified in section 3 out of the voluntary sub- scriptions to the Society and out of such income or money as the Society may derive from any source whatsoever.
14. All buildings and premises of the Society shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of the Governor and of any other person whom His Excellency may appoint in that behalf.
15. The Board of Direction shall cause a register to be kept in which every person desiring to become a member of the Society and being duly qualified shall, subject to the provisions of section .9 be entitled to have his name in- scribed, 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 month after the expiration of every year transmit to the Colonial Secretary a full report of work done during the previous year together with a truc 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 if required be verified on oath or by declaration before a Justice of the Peace by two members of the Board.
16. 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 manner 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.
17. 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 become vested in the Crown subject to the rateable payment thereout of the just debts and liabilities (if any) of the Society, to the extent of such property and assets and in such manner as shall be provided by the repealing Ordinance or by any Order to be made in that behalf by the Governor in Council. 18. To enable the Society to provide the building or buildings mentioned in section 17 of Ordinance II of 1990 and to carry out more successfully its objects and purposes it shall be lawful for the Governor to authorize the pay-- ment to the Society of a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars.
19. It shall be lawful also for the Governor in his discretion to direct a certain number of detectives and constables to be placed at the service of the Society ou such terms and under such conditious as His Excellency may sanction,
Power to alter rules and regulations.
Votes.
Interpreti- tion.
Erection of buildings, &c.
Inspection.
Begister of inembers.
Report and
tatement of accounts,
Incorporation when determined.
Property, &c. to become vested in the Crown.
Goverment grant.
Detectivos
and constables to be placed at the service of the Society.
SCHEDULE.
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