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SALE OF LAND BY AUCTIOX . [ 13 OF 1886.1 823
DOMINICAN MISSION INCORPORATION . 14 OF 1886 .

7. Except as aforesaid, nothing in this ordinance contained Supreme
shall affect any sale of land made under or by virtue of any in otherc .
order of the Supreme Court or of any other Court having excepte
respectsd from
jurisdiction within the Colony. operation of
ordinance.
[ In force from the 12th July, 1886. Proclamation of same date.] [ Ibid . § 7. ]




No. 14 OF 1886
An Ordinance entitled An Ordinance for the Incorporation
of the Procurator, in Hongkong, for the Dominican
Missions in the Far Eas'.
[ 7th May, 1886.]
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1. The Very Reverend FERNANDO Saisz the Procurator in Procurator
Hongkong, for the Dominican Missions, (also known in the infor Hongkong,
the
Colony of Hongkong as the Spanish Missions in China and Dominican
Tonquin ) and holding the appointment of the Procurator, in the far East
einst
Hongkong, for the said Missions in the Far East and his to bea body
successors holding the said appointment and having placed in corporatc..
the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of his 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 Procurator, in Hongkong, for the
Dominican Missions in the Far East ” 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, 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, messuages or tenements in the said Colony
cr 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 chatteis whatsoever, and the
said corporation is bereby further empowered from time to time
by deed or deeds under its seal to grant, sell , convey, assign,
surrender and yield up , mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer
or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and
tenements, mortgages, debentures , stock , funds and securities,