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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH OCTOBER, 1885. 859

O ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.-This is to give notice that The Very Reverend FERNANDO SAINZ the Procurator for the Dominican Missions in the Far East, in Hongkong, intends to apply at an early date to the Honourable the Legislative Council of Hongkong for a Bill enacting that the said The Very Reverend Father SAINZ the Procurator for the Dominican Missions and his Successors holding the said appointment for the time being shall be made a Body Corporate with a Common Seal having the name of "The Procurator for the Dominican Missions in the Far East in Hongkong" with power to sell and dispose of or otherwise deal with any lands, buildings messuages, or tenements, in the said Colony and generally, for the purposes and with the powers more particularly mentioned and described in the Copy Draft Bill hereunder set forth.

Hongkong, 3rd October, 1885.

COPY DRAFT BILL

FOR THE

SHARP, JOHNSON, & STOKES,

Solicitors.

Incorporation of the Procurator for the Dominican Missions in the Far East, in Hongkong.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the Incorporation of the Procurator for the Dominican Missions in the Far East, in Hongkong.

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

1. The Very Reverend FERNANDO SAINZ the Procurator for the Dominican Missions, and holding the appointment of the Procurator for the Dominican Missions in the Far East in Hongkong, and his successors holding the said appointment for the time being shall be a Body Corporate hereinafter called the said Corporation and shall for the purpose of this Ordinance have the name of "The Pro- curator for the Dominican Missions in the Far East in Hongkong" and by that name shall have perpetual succes- sion 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 mortgage, sell, or demise, grant, convey, re-assign, surrender, yield up, 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 piece or parcel of ground registered in the Land Office of this Colony as Inland Lot No. 150 and all other land, buildings, messuages and tenements therein and all mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels in this Colony at the time of the passing of this Ordinance vested or purporting to be vested in the said Very Reverend FERNANDO SAINZ in his own right or as Trustee for or Procurator of the said Dominican Missions, or in the name of the late Reverend FRANCISCO RIVAS, Right Reverend PEDRO PAYO, Reverend RAMON Reixach, Reverend GREGORIO ECHEVARRIA, Reverend FRANCISCO HERCE, and Reverend GUILLERMO BURNÓ for the said Dominican Missions, and all monies, securities for money, goods, chattels, and effects whatsoever, the property of the said Dominican Missions or purporting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation, but subject as regards the said lands, buildings, messunges and

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

Lands, &c.,

now rested in the

Keverend Father SAINZ and the late Reverend RIVAS, Right Reverend

PAYO,

Reverend REIXACH,

Reverend

ECHEVAR- RIA, Reverend HENCE, and Roverend BURNG to be vested in the Corporation.