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ORDINANCE No. 10 OF 1885 . 1889


Incorporation of the Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Church.


No. 10 of 1885 .

An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Vicar Apostolic of
the Roman Catholic Church in Hongkong.

[ 15th May, 1885. ]


BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
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Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

1. The Right Reverend JOHN TIMOLEONE RAIMONDI the Roman Vicar Apos
tolic of the
Catholic Titular Bishop of Acantho and holding the ecclesiastical appoint Roman
Catholic
ment of Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Church in Hongkong, Church in
Hongkong to
and his successors holding the said appointment or the Roman Catholic be a body
corporate.
dignitary for the time being having the supreme ecclesiastical jurisdic
tion in this 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 .

2. The lands , buildings, messuages , and tenements in this Colony Lands, &c. ,
now vested in
at the time of the passing of this Ordinance vested or purporting to be the Sacred
Congregation
vested in the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith or in of the Propa
gation of the
the said Right Reverend JOHN TIMOLEONE RAIMONDI in his own right or Faith, Bishop