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ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1875 . 1377


St. Paul's College.


Statutes, as modified on the 26th July, 1875, under Ordinance No. 7 of 1875,

ofthe Missionary Institution at Hongkong called St. Paul's

College. Gazetted 10th January, 1876.

PREAMBLE.


A missionary college having been founded at Victoria, in the island of Hongkong,
principally by the pious liberality of a " Brother and Sister " and by a grant from the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, aided by sums from various individual
donors, and the status of the Episcopate in Hongkong having recently undergone a
change which renders an alteration of the college statutes inevitable, the following
modified statutes for the general government and internal regulation of the institution
are now promulgated in the place of the original statutes which received the sanction
of His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury upon the 15th day of October, 1849.

FOUNDATION.


1. St. Paul's College at Victoria is primarily founded for the object of training a
body of native clergy and Christian teachers for the propagation of the Gospel in China
according to the principles of the United Church of England and Ireland , and under
the immediate control of a warden appointed by His Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury . It shall, however, be lawful to admit to the benefits of the college such
students, European as well as Native, as being educated in conformity with the doctrine
and discipline of the Church of England , shall afford , in the judgment of the warden ,
the hope of their diffusing through their example and influence the blessing of
Christianity and civilization .

THE COLLEGE PROPERTY.


2. All sums of money and books already given and property of every kind hereafter
to be given, transferred , or bequeathed to the purposes of the college , shall be vested ,
for the benefit of the said college, in the Archbishop of Canterbury and his successors
and in the warden of the college for the time being, and in the Archbishop alone during
a vacancy in the office of warden .

THE WARDEN.


3. The present warden of the college is the Right Reverend John Shaw Burdon ,
Bishop : he may resign his office by letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury : and may
be removed at any time by writing under the hand of the Archbishop. The
Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being shall have the nomination and appointment
of all future wardens : and the wardens so appointed may resign their office by letter
as aforesaid, and may in like manner be removed at any time by writing under the
hand of the Archbishop .