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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MAY, 1885.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 209. Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to the Sing Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council :---

Ordinance No. 10 of 1885.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the Incorporation of the Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Church in Hongkong.

Ordinance No. 11 of 1885.-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Post Office Ordinance, 1884, Amendment Ordinance, 1885.

Ordinance No. 12 of 1885.-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Married Women's Disposition of Property Ordinance, 1885.

Ordinance No. 13 of 1885.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled An Ordinance to amend Ordinance 16 of 1873.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th May, 1885.

[L.S.]

G. F. BoWEN..

No. 10 of 1885.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the Incorporation of the Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Church in Hongkong.

[15th May, 1885.]

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

BE of the Legislative Council thereof, as

follows

1. The Right Reverend JoHN TIMOLEONE RAIMONDI the Roman Catholic Titular Bishop of Acantho and holding the Ecclesiastical appointment of Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Church in Hongkong, and his successors ́holding the said appointment or the Roman Catholic Digni- tary for the time being having the Supreme Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in this Colony, in the Roman Catholic Church, shall be a Body Corporate and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name of "The Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Church in Hongkong," 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 scal, 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, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy for the use of the Roman Catholic Church in this Colony all lands, messuages, and tenemcuts of what nature or kind soever for a life or lives, or for a term of years, and also all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever, and the said Cor- poration is hereby further empowered from time to time by deed under its seal to mortgage, sell, or demise, grant, con- vey, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements by this Ordinance vested, or that may here- after be vested in the said Corporation upon such terms as the said Coporation may see fit: PROVIDED ALWAYS that no lands, buildings, messuages, or tonements acquired with public money or granted by the Government of the Colony for any special purpose previous to the passing of this Ordi- nance shall be disposed of without the consent of the Governor for the time being in Council.

2. The lands, buildings, messunges, and tenements in this Colony at the time of the passing of this Ordinance vested or purporting to be 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

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

Vicar Apos- tolic of the Roman Catholic Church in Hongkong to be a Body Corporate.

Lands, &e.. now vested in the Sacred Congregation of the Propa- ration of tho Faith. Bishop RAIMONDA, aus the late Reverend AMEROSI, to by vested in tho Corporation.