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[ 10 OF 1885. ) INCORPORATION OF THE VICAR APOSTOLIC OF THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH .

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No. 10 OF 1885. 1




An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Vicar
Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Church in Hong
kong
[15th May, 1885. ]
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Vicar Apos
tolic of the 1. The Right Reverend Joun TIMOLEONE RAIMONDI the
Roman Roman Catholic Titular Bishop of Acantho and holding the
Catholic
Church in ecclesiastical appointment of Vicar Apostolic of the Roman
Hongkong
be a boily
to Catholic Church in Hongkong, and his successors holding the
corporate,
said appointment or the Roman Catholic dignitary for the time
being having the supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this 1
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 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,, purchase, take, hold , and enjoy for the use of the
Roman Catholic Church in this Colony all lands, messuages ,
and tenements 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 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 tenements by this ordinance vested,
or that may hereafter be vested in the said corporation upon
such terms as the said corporation may see fit: provided always
that no lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements 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 .
Lands, &c. , 2. The lands, buildings, messuages , and tenements in this
now vested in Colony at the time of the passing of this ordinance vested or
the Sacred
Congregation purporting to be vested in the Sacred Congregation of the
gation ofor the Propagation of the Faith or in the said Right Reverend John
Faith, Bishop TIMOLEONE RAIMONDI in his own right or as trustee for or
RAIMONDI
and the late procurator of the said Sacred Congregation or in the name of