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9. The Board of Direction shall have power, with the consent of the Special Governor in Council, to change or vary the corporate name and the common exercised seal of the Corporation, and the amount of the donation to the funds of the with con- hospital hereinbefore prescribed as a qualification for becoming a member Governor in thereof, and the term of office of members of the Board of Direction, and also Council. may, for reasonable cause, and with such consent as aforesaid, refuse to admit any person as a member of the Corporation or may expel any existing mem- ber, and cause his name to be erased from the register.

frame

disallow.

10. The Board of Direction shall have power to frame regulations for Power to their procedure in the transaction of business and the maintenance of good regulations order at their meetings, the mode of voting for the election of members of the subject to Board of Direction and the appointment of the President thereof, and for the ance by guidance of the Board of Management and generally for all matters relating Governor in to the administration and discipline of the Hospital; Provided always that a copy of such regulations shall, from time to time, be furnished to the Colonial Secretary, and every such regulation shall be subject to disallowance at any time by the Governor in Council.

Council.

be decided

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

doubt or

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

decision thereon shall be final.

Board of

Hospital on

13. The Preliminary Board of Direction appointed under this Ordinance Preliminary shall, with all convenient despatch after the passing thereof, proceed to elect a Direction to President, and shall cause all buildings and works required for the purposes of erect the said Hospital to be erected and executed out of the funds of the Corporation the site upon the site granted by Her said Majesty as aforesaid, and the members of granted by

Her Majesty. the said Board shall continue to hold office provisionally after the expiration Provisional of the said term of two years, until the permanent Board of Direction shall extension of have been elected under the provisions hereinbefore contained.

office.

14. The Hospital and all buildings and premises of the Corporation shall Inspection be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of the Registrar General, the officers. Colonial Surgeon and of any other person whom the Governor may appoint in that behalf.

members,

be kept.

be furnished.

15. The Board of Direction shall cause a register to be kept in which Register of every person desiring to become a member of the Corporation and being duly and books of qualified shall, subject to the provisions of Section 9, be entitled to have his account to name inscribed, and also, shall cause proper books of account to be kept which Annual shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of members of the statement to Corporation and of any person whom the Governor in Council may appoint in that behalf, and also shall within one month after the expiration of every year of the Chinese calendar transmit to the Colonial Secretary a true statement of the assets and liabilities of the Corporation, 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.

Ordinance in

cases.

16. In case it shall at any time be shown to the satisfaction of the Provision for Governor in Council that the Corporation have ceased or neglected or failed repeal of to carry out in a proper manner the object and purposes of this Ordinance or certain to fulfil the conditions thereof, or that sufficient funds cannot be obtained by voluntary contributions to defray the necessary expenses of maintaining the said Hospital, or that the Corporation is unable for any reason to pay its debts, it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the Legislative Council of the Colony, by an Ordinance to be passed for that purpose, to repeal this Ordinance, and to declare that the Incorporation hereby granted shall cease and determine and become absolutely void; Provided always that six months' notice of the Governor's intention to pass such an Ordinance shall be previously given to the Corporation.