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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH JULY, 1891.

SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG,

THE Court will sit in Summary Jurisdiction, every Friday, until further notice.

T

JUIE Court will sit in Original Jurisdiction, on every Monday and Thursday, until further notice.

By Order of the Court,

BRUCE SHEPHERD, Acting Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

IN BANKRUPTCY.

In the Matter of TSOI CHI HING. a Bankrupt.

WHEREAS under a Bankrupter Fetition

presented to this Court by the said Bankrupt himself an Order of Adjudication was made on the 26th day of May, 1891.

This is to give notice that the said Adjudi- cation was by Order of this Court annulled on the 17th day of July, 1891.

Dated this 22nd day of July, 1891.

BRUCE SHEPHERD, Acting Registrar.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.

per

A luterim Dividend at the rate of 4

cent. for the six months ending 30th June. 1891, will be payable on the 1st August next, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office. No. 5, Queeid's Road Central.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 28th instant to the 1st proximo, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary. Hongkong, 21st July, 1891.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

TOTICE is hereby given that the Reverend Jour CHALMERS, Senior Missionary in Hongkong, of the London Missionary Society, and holding the appointment of Senior Missionary in Hongkong of the London Missionary Society, intends at an early date to apply to the Honourable the Legislative Council of Hongkong for a Bill for the Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in Hongkong of the London Missionary Society, and for the vesting in such Corporation of certain properties at present vested in the names of the said Reverend JOHN CHALMERS and the Reverend GEORGE HENRY BONDFIELD respectively as Trustees of the said London Missionary Society.

Hongkong, 25th July, 1891.

DRAFT BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in Hongkong of the London Missionary Society.

BE

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. The Reverend JOHN CHALMERS, LL.D., Senior Mis- sionary in Hongkong of the London Missionary Society and holding the appointment of the Senior Missionary in Hongkong of the London Missionary Society and his suc- cessors holding the said appointment and having placed in the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of his appoint- ment for the time being shall be a Body Corporate (herein- after called the said Corporation) and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name of "The Senior Missionary in Hongkong of the London 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 time 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, messuages, or tene- ments 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, build- ings, messuages, 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 deeds under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, sur- render, and yield up mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks and securities, goods and chattels by this Ordinance vested or that may hereafter be vested in the said Corporation upon such terms

Provided that

as to the said Corporation may seem fit. duc notice of appointment as such Senior Missionary 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 made.

2. The piece or parcel of ground situate lying and being within the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 590 with the messuages or tenements and buildings thereon and all mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels in the said Colony if any at the time of the passing of this Ordinance vested or purporting to be yested in the names of the said Reverend Jons CHALMERS and the Reverend GEORGE HENRY BONDFIELD respectively as Trustees of the said London Missionary Society and alt monies, securities for money, goods, chattels, and effects whatsoever the property of the said Missionary Society or purporting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation but subject as regards the said piece or parcel of ground, messuages or tenements and buildings, and all other lands, messuages, tenements, and premises that. may hereafter become vested in the said Corporation to the payment of the rents and observance and performance of all the covenauts, conditions, and reservations contained in the Crown Leases under which the same are now or may hereafter be respectively held.

3. All deeds, documents, and other instruments requiring the seal of the said Corporation shall be sealed with the seal of the said Corporation in the presence of the said JOHN CHALMERS or his Attorney duly authorised or in the presence of any of his Successors holding the appointment of Senior Missionary in Hongkong of the Loudon Mis sionary Society or his Attorney duly authorised and shall also be signed by the said JoHN CHALMERS or his said Attorney or by his said Successors or his said Attorney and such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds, documents, and other instruments.

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 persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance' and those claiming by, from, or under them.

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