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1118 [ 12 of 1889. ) INCORPORATION OF THE BERLIN LADIES'
MISSION FOR CHINA .



No. 12 of 1889.
An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Director, in
Hongkong, of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for China.
[ 29th March , 1889.]
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The director, 1. The Reverend FERDINAND ERNEST WILHELM HARTMANN ,
the Berlin director in Hongkong, of the Berlin Foundling House and
in Hongkong,
Ladies'
Mission for holding the appointment of the director in Hongkong , of the
China to be a Berlin Ladies'Mission for China and his successors holding the
body corpo
rate.
said appointment, and having placed in the hands ofthe Governor
satisfactory proof of his appointment for the time being shall be
a body corporate ( hereinafter called the said corporation) and
shall for the purposes of this ordinance have the name of “ The
Director, in Hongkong, of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for China "
and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and
inay 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 ofwhat 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 or upon the mortgages or
debentures, stocks, 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 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, stocks,funds and securities, goods and chattels by
this ordinance vested, or that may hereafter be vested in the
said corporation upon such termsas to the said corporation may
seem fit provided that due notice of appointment as such director,
in Hongkong, and of the proof thereof having been placed in
the hands of the Governcr shall be given in the Government
Gazette and such notice shall be sufficient evidence of the said
appointment and of proof thereof having been made.
Lands, &c. , 2. The lands, buildings, messuages and tenements situate,
now vestedin lying and beingwithin the Colony of Hongkong registered in