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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH OCTOBER, 1891.

DRAFT BILL

ENTITLED

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

BE 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 sue- cessors holding the said appointment and having placed in the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of his appoint- inent 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, messages, 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 as to the said Corporation may seem fit. Provided that due 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 sugh 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 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 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 and all 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 covenants, 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 London 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.

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