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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH NOVEMBER, 1891.

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 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 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 messages 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 he 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, messages 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.

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.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 26th day of October, 1891.

A. M. THOMSON,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 31st day of October, 1891.

W. MEIGH Goodman,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

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