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d. It should empower such Corporation to sell, mortgage, and otherwise dispose of any property for the time being vested in it with such consent (if any) as it may be thought desirable to make necessary; the provisions however for vesting in the new Corporation Lot 50 or any other property which may have been leased to the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith should not be enacted without the consent of the Sacred Congregation, for which I under- stand the Bishop has applied, and care should be taken to impose on the Corporation all the obligations imposed or expressed to be imposed on the lessee by the leases of any property the leasehold interest of which is transferred by the Ordinance.

Governor Sir G. F. BOWEN, G.C.M.G.,

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I have, &c.,

(Signed),

DERBY.

&c.

&C.,

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Enclosure in the above.

TRINIDAD.

No. 16, 1870.

An Ordinance enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Trinidad, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, for the Incorporation of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port of Spain.

SEAL

(Signed),

J. R. LONGDEN.

August 4th, 1870.

BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Council, as follows :—

1. The Most Reverend HYACINTH JOACHIM LOUIS GOUIN, the Roman Catholic Archbishop in this Island, and his Successors in Office, or the Roman Catholic Dignitary for the time being having the Supreme Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in this Island, in the Roman Catholic Church, shall be a Body Corporate, and have the name of "The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port of Spain," and by that name shall have Perpetual Succession, and shall have full Power to purchase, take, hold and enjoy all Lands, Messuages and Hereditaments of what nature or kind soever in Perpetuity or for a Term of Life or Years, and also all manner of Goods and Chattels whatsoever, and may sue and be sued in all Courts of Justice, and before all Magistrates in this Island, and shall and may have and use a Common Seal, and the said Seal may, from time to time break, change, alter or make anew, as to the said Corporate Body may seem fit.

Passed in Council, this First day of August, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy.

(Signed),

A. C. ROSS, Clerk of the Council.