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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH DECEMBER, 1889.

The Procureur Général in Hongkong of the Society of the Missions Etrangères to be a Body Corporate.

Lands, & now vested in trustees to be vested in the Corporation.

Use of the Corporation Seal.

Reservation of rights of the Crown.

DRAFT BILL

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An Ordinance for the Incorporation of The Procureur Général, in Hongkong, of the Society of the Missions Etrangères.

BE

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

1. The Very Reverend EUGÈNE LEMONNIER, Procureur Général in Hongkong of the Society of the Missions Etran- gères and his successors holding the said appointment, and having placed in the bands of the Governor satisfactory proof of his appointment for the time being shall be a Body, Corporate (hereinafter called the said Corporation) and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name of “The Procureur Général in Hongkong of the Society of the Missions Etrangères" and by that name shall have perpe tual 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 tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate in the Colony of Hongkong and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements in the said Colony or upon the mortgages on debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any Cor poration or Company carrying on business or having an Office in the said Colony, 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 deed or deeds under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds 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 Procureur Général in Hong- kong, and of the proof thereof having been placed in the. hands of the Governor shall be given in the Gazette and such notice shall be sufficient evidence of the said appoint- ment and of proof thereof having been made.

2. The lands, buildings, messuages and tenements situate,. lying and being within the Colony of Hongkong registered in the Land Office as Inland Lots Nos. 113, 114, 115, 119 and 124, Pokfulum Farm Lot No. 24 and Pokfulum Rural Building Lot No. 51 and all mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels in the said Colony at the time of the passing of this Ordinance vested or purporting to be vested in the names of the said Very Reverend EUGÈNE LEMONNIER, NAPOLEON FRANÇOIS LIBOIS, deceased, The Reverend PIERRE MARIE OSOUF and The Reverend JEAN JOSEPH ROUSSEILLE re- spectively as Trustees of the said Society of Missions Etrangères and all monies, securities for money, goods,, chattels, and effects whatsoever, the property of the said Mission or purporting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation, but subject as regards the said lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements to the payment of the rents and the observance and performance of all the covenants, conditions and reservations contained in the Crown Leases or under Leases or mortgages under which the said lands, buildings or tenements 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 Reverend EUGÈNE LEMONNIER or his attorney duly authorised or in the presence of any his Successor holding the appointment of Procureur Général in Hongkong of the said Society or his attorney duly authorised and shall also be signed by the said Reverend EUGÈNE LEMONNIER or his said attorney or by his said Successor or his said attorney and such signing shall 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 politie, or corporate or other persons, except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance, and those claiming by, from, or under them.