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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1mn MARCII, 1885.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

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TOTICE is hereby given that the Right Revd. Bishop RAIMONDI, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolie of Hongkong, intends at an early date to apply to the Honourable the Legislative Council of anglong for a Bill for the Incorporation of the Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of Hongkong, and the vesting of certain properties at present vested in the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation the Faith or in the said Right Revd. Bishop RAIMONDI in his own right or as Trustee for the said gregation or in the name of the late Very Revd. DON LUIGI AMBROSI or of other persons as Agents Trustees for the said Congregation.

A draft of the said intended Bill is subjoined.

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A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance for the incorporation of the Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of Hongkong.

BE

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as

follows :-

1. The Right Reverend JoHN TIMOLEONE RAIMONDI the Roman Catholic Titular Bishop of Acantho and Vicar Apostolic of Hongkong, and his successors in Office, or the Roman Catholic Dignitary for the time being having the Supreme Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in this Colony, in the Roman Catholic Church, shall be a Body Corporate and have the name of "The Vicar Apostolic of Hong- kong," 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 sail seal may from time to time break, change, alter, and raske anew as to the said Corporation may seem fit, and the said Corpora- tion shall have full power to acquire, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy for the use of the Roman Catholic Church in this Colony all lands, messuages, and hereditaments of what nature or kind soever in perpetuity, or for a life or lives, or for a term of years, and also all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever, and the said Corporation is hereby further empowered from time to time by deed under its seal to mortgage, sell, or demise, grant, convey, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages and heredita- ments, by this Ordinance vested, or that may hereafter be vested in the said Corporation upon such terms as the said Coporation may see fit: PROVIDED ALWAYS that no lands, buildings, messuages, or hereditaments acquired with public money or granted by the Government of the Colony for any special purpose previous to the passing of this Ordinance shall be disposed of without the consent of the Governor for the time being in Council.

2. The lands, buildings, messuages, and hereditaments in this Colony at the time of the passing of this Ordinance vested in the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith or in the said Right Reverend JOHN TIMOLEONE RAIMONDI in his own right or as Trustee for or Procurator of the said Sacred Congregation or in the name of the late Very Reverend Don LUIGI AMBROSI as such Procurator or in any other person or persons as Pro- curator or Agent or as Trustee or Trustees for the said Sacred Congregation, and all monies, securities for money, goods, chattels, and effects whatsoever, the property of the said Sacred Congregation, are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation, but subject as regards the said lands, buildings, messuages, and hereditaments to the payment of the rents and the observance and performance of all the covenants, conditions, and reservations contained in the Crown Leases under which the said land, buildings, tenements, and hereditaments are now respectively held.

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