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Power of Board of Direction.

Further

Power to aller rules and regulations,

Votos.

Interpreta- tion.

Erection of buildings, &c.

Inspection,

Register of incribers.

Report and statement of accounts.

Incorporation whom determined

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shall consist of the persons whose names are coutained in the schedule to this Ordinance with the addition of the two ex officio members as above provided. Vacancies in this Board shall be filled up from time to time by the Governor who may call upon the continuing members of the Board for their recommendation.

8. The Board of Direction shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, have full power and authority to govern, direct and decide all matters whatsoever connected with the administration of the affairs of the Society and the accom- plishment of the objects and purposes thereof, and may at discretion depute a portion or the whole of its power and authority to the Elective Committee who shall, under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be made by the Board of Direction in that behalf, undertake and exercise the immediate supervision and management of the Society. 9. The Board of Direction shall have power, with the consent of the Governor, to change or vary the corporate name and the common seal of the Society, and the amount of the donation to the funds of the Society hereinbefore prescribed as a qualification for becoming a member thereof, and may, with such consent as aforesaid, refuse to admit any person as a member of the Society or may expel any existing member, and cause his name to be erased from the register.

10. The Board of Direction shall have power to make, and when made, cancel, change or vary rules and regula- tions for their procedure in the transaction of business and the maintenance of good order at their meetings, and for the guidance of the Elective Committee, and generally for all matters relating to the administration and management of the Society, and the discharge of its various duties. Pro- vided always that a copy of such rules and regulations shall, from time to time, be furnished to the Colonial Secretary, and every such rule or regulation shall be subject to disallowance at any time by the Governor.

11. All questions which may arise at any meeting of the Board of Direction shall be decided by a majority of votes, and in case of an equality of votes the President shall have a casting vote.

12. In case any doubt or ambiguity shall arise and any controversy shall take place among the members of the Board of Direction as to the interpretation of this Ordinance the same shall be referred to the Governor whose decision thereon shall be final.

13. The Board of Direction appointed under this Ordi- nauce shall, with all convenient despatch after the passing thereof, cause all buildings and works required for the purposes of the said Society to be erected and executed out of the funds of the Society from whatever source de- rived upon the site opposite the Tung Wa Hospital and approved by His Excellency the Governor. Such buildings and works shall be kept and maintained for the objects and purposes specified in section 3 out of the voluntary sub- scriptions to the Society and out of such income or money as the Society may derive from any source whatsoever.

14. All buildings and premises of the Society shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of the Governor and of any other person whom His Excellency may appoint in that behalf.

15. The Board of Direction shall cause a register to be kept in which every person desiring to become a member of the Society and being duly qualified shall, subject to the provisions of section 9 be entitled to have his name in- scribed, and also shall cause proper books of account to be kept which shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of members of the Society and of any person whom the Governor may appoint in that behalf, and also shall within one month after the expiration of every year transmit to the Colonial Secretary a full report of work done during the previous year together with a true statement of the assets and liabilities of the Society and an account of their receipts and disbursements during the previous year, and such statement shall if required be verified on oath or by declaration before a Justice of the Peace by two members of the Board.

16. In case it shall at any time be shown to the satis- faction of the Governor that the Society has ceased or neglected or failed to carry out in a proper manner the objects and purposes of its establishment as set forth in section 3 hereof or the objects and purposes of this Ordi-