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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH JULY, 1875.

HONGKONG.

ANNO TRICESIMO NONO

VICTORIA REGINA.

JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN, Administrator and Commander-in-Chief. No. 7 OF 1875.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to provide for the Devolution of the Site of St. Paul's College, and to provide means for altering the Statutes of the said College.

[7th July, 1875.]

Title.

HEREAS, by Letters Patent dated the 11th day of May, Preamble.

W 1849, Her Majesty did declare the city of Victoria, and

all the territory comprised within the island of Hongkong and its dependencies, to be the Diocese of the Bishop named in the said Letters Patent, and of his successors, and to be called in all time the Diocese of Victoria; and did constitute the Church of St. John in the said city to be a Cathedral Church, and Bishop's See; and did appoint the Reverend GEORGE SMITH, Doctor of Divinity, to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of the said See and Diocese under the title of The Lord Bishop of Victoria:

And whereas the statutes of St. Paul's College in Victoria were approved by His Grace the then Archbishop of Canterbury on the 15th day of October, 1849, and the said statutes provided amongst other things,-

That all property of every kind thereafter to be given, trans- ferred, or bequeathed to the purposes of the College should be vested in the Bishop of Victoria for the time being as constituted by Her Majesty's Letters Patent a body corporate;

That the government and entire control of the College should be vested in the Bishop of Victoria as ex officio Warden, except so far as any jurisdiction or authority might be by him delegated to a Sub-warden or others;

That it should be lawful for the Bishop of Victoria in conjunc- tion with the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being to introduce such a modification, alteration, or extension of the said statutes, as to them jointly might seem fit:

And whereas a Crown Lease dated the 5th day of September, 1851, was made between Her Majesty of the one part, and the Right Reverend George Lord Bishop of Victoria, in the island of Hongkong, ex officio Warden, on behalf of the Church of England Missionary Institution known as St. Paul's College of the other part, and thereby the land therein described (being Inland Lot No. seventy-six) with its appurtenances was demised to the said Lord Bishop of Victoria, and his successors, being such Warden, To Hold unto the said Lord Bishop of Victoria and his successors being such Warden for the full term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years, commencing on the 19th day of April, 1850, at the yearly rent of one dollar :

And in the said lease the said Lord Bishop of Victoria as Warden of St. Paul's College, and for the Wardens to be from time to time appointed, covenanted with Her Majesty to pay the said rent and all taxes, charges and impositions that should thereafter be assessed or charged upon the said land. And further that neither the said lessee or Warden, nor any person, should during the said demise, use the said lands for any other purpose than the promotion of the charitable designs and ob- jects of the said St. Paul's College, as they might be, from time to time, legally established, without the previous licence of Her Majesty, her heirs, successors, or assigns, signified by the Go- vernor of the Colony, or other person duly authorized in that behalf:

And whereas by Letters Patent dated the 14th day of January, 1867, Her Majesty did appoint the Reverend Charles Richard Alford, Clerk, Master of Arts, to be ordained and consecrated Lord Bishop of the said See of Victoria, in succession to the said Bishop Smith, who had resigned:

And whereas by Letters Patent dated the 1st day of Novem- ber, 1872, after reciting the above mentioned Letters Patent, and that the said See and Bishopric had become vacant by the resignation of the said Bishop Alford, Her Majesty was pleased

to revoke and determine the said recited Letters Patent of the 11th day of May, 1849, and of the 14th day of January, 1867, and every clause, article, and thing therein contained :

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