666871-1886-Bills-read-The-Stamp-Ordinance-The-Spirit-Licences-Ordinance-Dominican-Mission-Incorporation- — Page 18

!

i

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD APRIL, 1886.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Pro- curator, in Hongkong, for the Dominican

BE

Missions in the Far East.

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

1. The Very Reverend FERNANDO SAINZ the Procurator in Hongkong, for the Dominican Missions, (also known in the Colony of Hongkong as the Spanish Missions in China and Tonquin) and holding the appointment of the Pro- curator, in Hongkong, for the said Missions in the Far East and his successors holding the said appointment and having placed in the hands of the Governor satis- factory proof of his appointment for the time being shall be a. Body Corporate (hereinafter called the said Corpora- tion) and shall for the purpose of this Ordinance have the name of "The Procurator, in Hongkong, for the Do- minican Missions in the Far East" 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 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, messu- ages or tenements in the said Colony or upon the mortgages or debentures, stock, funds, shares, or securities of any Corporation 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, re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stock, funds and securi- ties, 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.

2. The lands, buildings, messuages and tenements situate lying and being within the Colony of Hongkong and all mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels in the said Colony at the time of the passing of this Ordinance veşted or purporting to be vested in the said Very Reverend FERNANDO SAINZ in his own right or as Trustee for or Procurator in Hongkong of the said Dominican Missions, or in the name of "the late Reverend FRANCISCO RIVAS, Reverend PEDRO PAYO, Reverend RAMON REIXACH, Reverend GREGORIO ECHEVARRIA, Reverend FRANCISCO HERCE, and Reverend GUILLERMO BURNÓ respectively as Trustees for the said Missions, and all monies, securities for money, goods, chattels, and effects whatsoever, the property of the said Missions or purporting so to be are hereby trans- ferred to and vested in the said Corporation, but subject as regards the said lands, buildings, messuages and tenements to the payment of 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 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 Very Reverend FERNANDO SAINZ or his Attorney duly authorised or in the presence of any his Successor holding the appointment of Procurator, in Hongkong, for the Dominican Mission in the Far East, or his Attorney duly authorised and shall also be signed by the said Very Reverend FERNANDO SAINZ or his said Attorney or by his said Successor or his said Attorney.

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

Procurator, in Hongkong, for the Dominican Missions in the Far East, to be a Body Corporate.

Lands, &c., now vested in the Reverend Father SAINZ and the late Reverend RIVAS, Right Reverend

PAYO,

Reverend

REIXACH, Reverend

ECHEVAR-

RIA, HEROE, and Reverend BURNÓ to be vested in the Corporation.

Reverend

How the Seal is to be used,

Rights of the Crown re- served,

255