SOEURS DE SAINT PAUL DE CHARTRES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 312.

SCEURS DE SAINT PAUL DE CHARTRES
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Mother Superior in
this Colony of the Society of the Swurs de Saint Paul
de Chartres by which the institution known as the Asile
de la Sainte Enfance and as the French Convent is
carried on.
[7th May, 1915]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sceurs de Saint
Paul de Chartres Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Mother Superior in this Colony of the Society
of the Securs de Saint Paul de Chartres shall be a body cor-
porate, hereinafter called the corporation,, and shall have the
name of 'The Mother Superior of the Sceurs de Saint Paul
de Chartres (Hong Kong)' and by that name shall and may
sue and be sued in all courts in this Colony and shall and
may have and use a common seal.

3. The corporation shall have full power-
(a)subject to the licence of the Governor having been
previously obtained in each case, to acquire, accept
leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature
or kind soever and wheresoever situate in this
Colony;
(b)to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and
chattels whatsoever;
(c)to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands, build-
ings, messuages or tenements in this Colony, or
in or upon such other securities or investments as it
may think expedient;
(d)by deed under its seal or otherwise to grant, sell,
convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage,
demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise deal with or
dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages or tene-
Ments, mortgages, debentures, securities, shares,
goods and chattels for the time being vested in it on
such terms as may seem expedient to it.





4. All deeds and offier instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the Per-
son who is for the time being Mother Superjor in this Colony
of the said Society or of her attorney duly authorized and
such deeds and instruments and all other documents, instru-
ments and writings requiring the signature of the corporation
shall be signed by such Mother Superior or her attorney. [5

5. (1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office
of Mother Superior in this Colony of the said Society, such
person shall within three weeks after her appointment or
within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor
furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of her appoint-
ment.

(2) A notification in th c Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conculsive evidence of
such appointment.

6, Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or bc deenied
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any, body politic corporate or
of any other persons except claiming as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.[7
Originally 10 of 1915. Fraser 10 of 1915. Short title. Incorporation of the Mother Superior in Hong Kong of the Society of the Sceurs de Saint Paul de chartres. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Appointment of Mother superior. Saving.

Originally 10 of 1915. Fraser 10 of 1915. Short title. Incorporation of the Mother Superior in Hong Kong of the Society of the Sceurs de Saint Paul de chartres. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Appointment of Mother superior. Saving.

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SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD ORDER INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 311.

SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD ORDER
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Superioress in Hong
Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious
Blood.
[16th September, 1936.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sisters of the
Precious Blood Order Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Superioress for the time being in the Colony of
Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the
Precious Blood shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called
the corporation, and shall have the name of 'The Superioress
of the Sisters of the Preciotts Blood' and in that name shall
have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be
sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have and
use a common seal.

3. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the
corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,
purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings,
meeeuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upon mort-
gage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or
upon mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any government, municipality, corporation,
company or person, and also to purchase acquire and possess
other goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (i),
the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property in
the Colony unless it shall have previously obtained the special
consent of the Governor in Council in each case.
(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, inortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, or other goods and chattels, which are
for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation,
upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.





4. (1) When any, person is appointed to the office of
the Superioress in the Colony of the said Congregation such
person shall, within three weeks after her appointment or
within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor,
furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of her appoint-
ment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary thal such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of
such appointment. [5

5.All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of the person
who is for the time being Superioress in this Colony of the
said Congregation or of her attorney duly authorized and
such signing shall bc taken as sufficient evidence of the due
scaling of such deeds and other instruments and all deeds,
instruments and other documents and writings requiring the
signature of the corporation shall be signed by such
Superioress or her allorney. [6

6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of my other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and claiming by, from or under them. [7
41 of 1936. Short title. Incorporation of the Superioress in Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood. Powers of corporation. Appointment of Superioress. Execution of documents. Saving.

41 of 1936. Short title. Incorporation of the Superioress in Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood. Powers of corporation. Appointment of Superioress. Execution of documents. Saving.

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SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 310.

SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS
INCORPORATION

To Provide for the incorporation of the Secretary for Chinese
Affairs.
[10th April, 1928.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Secretary for
Chinese Affairs Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The person for the time being performing the duties
of the office of Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall be a cor-
poration sole, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall
have the name of 'The Secretary for Chinese Affairs
Incorporated' and by that name shall and may sue and be
sued in all courts in this Colony and shall and may have
and use a common seal.

3. (1) The corporation shall have power to acquire,
accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind
soever and wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys
upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tene-
rnents or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any government, municipality, cor-
poration or company, and also to purchase, acquire and
p6ssess goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, or other goods and chattels whatsoever,
which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the
corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may seem
fit.

4. Notwithstanding any change in the occupant of the
corporation, whether on account of death, departure on leave,
return from leave, temporary employment elsewhere, resump-
tion of duties, new appointment or other cause whatsoever,
and notwithstanding the nature of the property or rights, all
property and rights whatsoever, transferred to the corporation





or to any occupant of the corporation as such, in any manner
whatsoever, shall vest or rernain vested in the corporation so
as to be capable of being dealt with by the occupant of the
corporation for the time being and shall not vest in any
occupant in his natural capacity.

5. If any question arises as to who is or was at any
time the occupant of the corporation for the time being, a
certificate under the hand of the Colonial Secretary shall be
conclusive evidence for all purposes whatsoever as to the
person who is or was the occupant.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of the
occupant of the corporation for the time being, and such
deeds and instruments, and all other documents, instruments
and writings requiring the signature of the corporation, shall
be signed by such occupant.

7. The corporation will continue to hold the pieces or
parcels of ground which were vested in them on the 10th
day of April, 1928, except such of the same as may at any
time be disposed of under subsection (2) of section 3 hered,
together with all rights, easements and appurtenances
belonging or appertaining thereto, or therewith usually held,
occupied and enjoyed-
(a)in the case of premises held under Crown lease, for
the term granted thereby and subject to the payment
of the rent and the performance of the CoVenants
and conditions reserved thereby and contained there-
in ; and
(b)in the case of there being no Crown lease, for the
term and subject to the payment of the rent and
performance of the covenants and conditions to be
implied in all the circumstances of the case,
and in every case Whatsoever subject to the trusts on Which
the respective pieces or parcels of ground were held
immediately before the 10th day of April, 1928.

8. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Originally 3 of 1928. Fraser 3 of 1928. 24 of 1950. Incorporation of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Powers of corporation. Property and rights transferred to corporation to vest or remain vested in corporation and not to pass to personal representatives of occupant. [s. 4 cont.] Evidence as to the identity of the occupant of the corporation. Execution of documents. Vesting of property. 24 of 1950, Schedule. Saving.

Originally 3 of 1928. Fraser 3 of 1928. 24 of 1950. Incorporation of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Powers of corporation. Property and rights transferred to corporation to vest or remain vested in corporation and not to pass to personal representatives of occupant. [s. 4 cont.] Evidence as to the identity of the occupant of the corporation. Execution of documents. Vesting of property. 24 of 1950, Schedule. Saving.

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SALESIAN SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 309.

SALESIAN SOCIETY INCORPORATION.

To Provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in Hong
Kong of the Salesian Society.

[2nd April, 1931.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Salesian Society
Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony of
Hong Kong of the Salesian Society shall be a corporation
sole, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the
name of 'The Procurator in Hong Kong of the Salesian
Sociely' and in that name shall have perpetual succession
and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony
and shall and may have and use a common seal.

3. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) the
corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,
purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings,
messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon
mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements
or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any government, municipality, corporation,
company or person, and also to purchase, acquire and possess
vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind
soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1),
the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property in
the Colony unless it has previously obtained the special con-
sent of the Governor in Council in each case.

(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, or vessels or other goods and chattels,
which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the
corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may seem
fit.





4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever trans-
ferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in
the event of the death of the Procurator for the time being
in Hong Kong of the Salesian Society, or in the event of his
ceasing to hold office as such Procurator, pass to his succes-
sor in such office when appointed.

5. (1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office
of Procurator in Hong Kong of the Salesian Society such
person shall within three weeks after his appointment or
within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor
furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of his appoint-
ment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that Such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence
of such appointment.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of the said
Procurator or his attorney and shall be signed by him or his
attorney, and such signing shall be taken as sufficient
evidence of the due sealing of such deeds and other instru-
ments, and all deeds, instruments and other documents and
writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be
signed by such Procurator or his attorney.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Originally 9 of 1931. Fraser 9 of 1931. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 9 of 1931. Fraser 9 of 1931. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

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SAILORS HOME AND MISSIONS TO SEAMEN INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 308.

SAILORS HOME AND MISSIONS TO SEAMEN
INCORPORATION.
To Provide for the incorporation, of the Sailors Home and
Missions to Seamen.
[8th August, 1930.]
1 . This Ordinance may be cited as the Sailors Home
Missions to Seamen Incorporation Ordinance.

2. (1) The committee for the time being of the
Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen shall be a body
corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have.
the corporate name, 'The Sailors Home and Missions to
Seamen' and in that name shall have perpetual succession
and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the
Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal.
(2) The committee shall be composed of the follow-
ing
(a)the Bishop of the Church of England known as
the Bishop of Victoria, for the time being
officiating in the Colony;
(b)the person for the time being performing the duties
of Director of Marine;
(c)the person for the time being in charge of the
business of jardine, Matheson & Company Limited,
in Hong Kong ;
(d)two persons who shall be nominated by The Hong
Kong General Chamber of Commerce with power
to such Chamber to fill up any vacancy occurring
in any of such nominees from time to time.;
(e)two persons nominated by The Missions to Seamen
in London with power to the same body to fill up
any vacancy occurring in any of such nominees
from time to time;
(f) a representative of His Majesty's Navy appointed
by the aforesaid members of the committee;
(g)such other persons, one of whom must be the
honorary treasurer of the corporation, not exceed-
ing at any one time four in number as may from
time to time be co-opted by the other members of
the committee, with power to the committee to fill





up any vacancy occurring from time to time in the
co-opted members.

(3) The committee shall have such powers and duties
and shall hold such meetings as are specified in this Ordin-
ance and in the regulations made thereunder.

3. (1) For the purposes of the nomination mentioned
in paragraphs (d) and (e) of subsection (2) Of Section 2
a copy of a minute purporting to be a copy of a minute
of the committee of The Hong Kong General Chamber of
Commerce and a copy of a minute purporting to be a copy
of a minute of the committee of The Missions to Seamen
in London respectively that a person has been nominated
a member of the committee shall be sufficient.

(2) The certificate of the Coionial Secretary that any
person was at the date of the certificate or had been at
sorne previous specified date a member of the committee
shall for all purposes be conclusise evidence of that fact.

4. (1) The corporation shall carry on the work and
objects heretofore carried on both by the trustees of the
Sailors Home and by The Missions to Searnen in Hong
Kong, which, as regards the trustees of the Sailors Home.
are the care of officers and men of the Mercantile Marine
irrespective of their religion and also the provision of a
suitable institute or home for the seafaring classes and
officers and men aforesaid, and is regards The Missions to
Seamen in Hong Kong are the provision of an institute
for and the spiritual welfare of the seafaring classes and
in pursuance of such work and objects the use of every
means consistent with the principles and accepted practice
of the Church of England; and the corporation shall con-
tinue to carry on such work and objects.

(2) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept
and grant leases of, take, hold and enjoy any lands, build-
ings, messuages or tenements of what kind or nature soever
and wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upon
mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements-
or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares
or securities of any government, municipality, corporation
or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess
vessels and other goods and chattels of whatsoever kind or
nature.





(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, pledge, demise,
reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, build-
ings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, shares or securities, or other goods and chattels,
which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the
corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may
seem fit.

5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the
corporate seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the pre-
sence of three members of the committee and shall be
signed by three members.

6. (1) All property and effects at the time of the
coming into operation of this Ordinance belonging to wid
vested in The Trustees of the Sailors Home and The
Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong respectively as respec-
tively incorporated by the Sailors Honie Ordinance, 1925
and by The Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong Incor-
poration Ordinance, 1919, shall at the time of the coming
into operation of this Ordinance, be transferred to and be
and become vested in the corporation.

(2) On the coming into operation of this Ordinance
the corporation shall becorne liable for all debts and
liabilities of The Trustees of the Sailors Home and Missions
to Seamen in Hong Kong.

7. (1) The corporation may, subject to the approval
of the Governor in Council, by a resolution passed by the
majority of the committee, make from time to time such
regulations as may in its discretion seem desirable for the
administration of the corporation and the management of
the premises and property of whatever description thereof,
with the exception that regulation 11 and that part of
regulation 13 which relates to the chaplain shall not in any
way be altered except with the consent of The Missions to
Seamen in London.

(2) Subject to the exercise of the above powers the
regulations contained in the Schedule hereto shall be deemed
have been made under this Ordinance.





8. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affectthe rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors,or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under thein
9. Nothiing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the Chater Allissions to Seamen Endowment Fund
save that the coi ation sliall be substitute for The Mis-
sions to Seamen in Flong Kong. mentioned in clause 4 of
the deed of trust dated the 4th day of May, 1923.

SCHEDULE. [s. 7.]

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations-
'committee' means the committee incorporated under this Ordin-
ance as 'The Sailors Home and Missions to Searnen';
'institute' means the premises used by the corporation in con-
nexion with its work.

The committee.
2. The supreme control and management of the institute and
of the premises and property of whatever description of the cor-
poration shall be vested in the committee.
3. General meetings of the committee shall be held in the
months of February, April, July and October in each year on
such day at such hour as the committee shall direct.
4. The general meeting to be held in the month of February
in each year shall be called the annual general meeting and at
such meeting a report of all the affairs of the corporation and
an account of the receipts, expenditure and property of the cor-
poration together with a balance sheet for the last year shall
be presented by the honorary treasurer and the chartered account-
ants (hereinafter referred to) and there shall be elected a chairman,
an honorary treasurer, chartered accountants and auditors for the
ensuing year. At such annual general meeting such other business
shall be transacted as may be necessary.
5. Special meetings of the committee may be convened at
any time on the requisition of not less than four members thereof
by a notice specifying the object of the meeting and at any special
meeting convened on such requisition no business shall be trinsacted
other than that specified in the requisition.





6. General or special meetings of the committee shall be
convened (subject to regulation 5) by direction of the chairman
of the committee, and seven days' notice in writing thereof shall
be given to the members of the committee then within the Colony.
7. At every general or special meeting of the committee the
chair shall be taken by a chairman to be nominated by the members
of the committee present of whom four shall be a quorum.
8. The business manager (as hereinafter defined) shall keep
a minute book of such meetings, and proper entries shall be made
therein of all business transacted at every meeting.
9. The voting. at and resolution of general or special meetings
of the committee shall be decided by show of hands.

Management.
10. The chaplain shall be in sole charge of the religious
activities of the institute and shall care for and attend to all social
arrangements and functions and to the visitation of ships and
hospitals and he shall also be in charge of the launch 'Dayspring'
and of her crew and Of any other launch from time to time owned
or chartered by the corporation for its purposes.
11. There shall be a business manager who shall subject to
the control of the committee be entrusted with the upkeep and
repair of the buildings, furniture and fittings of the institute, the
management of all catering and messing arrangements and the
secretarial and office work. He shall also be entitled to go on
board all mercantile shipping and shall make any necessary hos-
pital arrangements in connexion with seafarers.'
12. Any chaplain subsequent to the first chaplain shall be
appointed by The Missions to Seamen in London but such appoint-
ment, the period of such appointment and the terms of such
appointment shall be subject to the approval of the committee.
While in Hong Kong the chaplain shall be subject to the control
ol the committee and his stipend shall be paid out of the funds
of the corporation. The business manager shall be appointed by
the committee for such period, on such salary and on such terms
as the committee may in their discretion think desirable and shall
be paid out of the funds of the corporation. Captain F. Bayliss,
the late Superintendent of the Sailors Home, shall be Daid out
of the funds of the corporation a pension for life of three hundred
and fifty pounds per annum being the pension heretofore agreed
to be paid to him.
13. Neither the chaplain nor the business manager shall be
entitled to serve as a member of the committee or to vote at any
meetings thereof but they shall both attend every such meeting
unless the committee otherwise desires.
14. No alcoholic liquors shall be sold or consumed on the
premises of the institute.
15. The institute shall be open to all men of His Majesty's
Navy and to otricers and men of the Mercantile Marine irrespec-
tive of their religion. Either the chaplain or the business manager
shall have power to refuse to admit to and also power to expel
from the premises of the institute any person or persons whatever
for any reason which such chaplain or business manager may decide
ta be sufficient. Any person or persons aggrieved by any such
decision of the chaplain or of the business manager may refer
the matter to the committee for their decision which shall be final.

Religious services.
16. The chapel on the premises of the institute shall be used
for divine service and worship according to the rites and ceremonies
of the Church of England.





17. Such service shall be voluntary and the attendance thereat
of any person or persons using the institute shall not be compul-
sory.

Officers.
18. A firm of chartered accountants shall be appointed by the
committee at the annual general meeting to manage the financial
afrairs of the institute. Such firm shall be responsible for the
collection of all moneys due to the corporation and for the pay-
ment thercout of all necessary payments. Pending and subjejet to
any such appointment as aforesaid the firm of Messrs. Lowe,
Bingham and Matthews shall be the chartered accountants of the
institute. There shall also be an honorary treasurer of the cor-
poration appointed by the committee from time to time who shall
carry out such duties as may be delegated to him by the committee
and shall hold office until a successor to him is appointed.

Auditors.
19. There shall be one or more auditors of the corporation
who shall be elected annually at the annual general meeting.
Pending and subject to any such appointment Messrs. Lowe.
Bingham and Matthews shall be the auditors of the corporation.
20. The auditor or auditors shall not later than three weeks
before the annual general meeting in each year audit and report
upon all accounts and books of the corporation and shall at any
other time if and when required by the committee audit and report
upon any of such books and accounts.
21. All the accounts and books of the corporation shall be
open to inspection by the auditor or auditors at all reasonable
times.

Bankers.
22. The bankers of the corporation shall be The Hongkong
and Shanghai Banking Corporation or such other bankers as the
committee may from time to time determine.
23. All subscriptions and pecuniary donations and the income
of investments and all other moneys from time to time formingf
part of the general funds of the corporation shall on the same
being received be paid to the general accounts of the corporation
with its bankers.
24. All capital moneys shall be paid into a separate account
and shall be expended first on the cost of building the institute
and as to the balance towards forming an endowment fund which
shall be invested and controlled by the committee and used by
them in any way they think fit for the benefit of the institute.
25. Cheques shall be drawn on the order of the committee and
shall be signed by the chartered accountants and countersigned by
two members of the committee.

Investments.
26. All moneys standing to the credit of the endowment fund
shall be invested by the committee in the corporate name of the
corporation or in the names of its nominees in the investments
authorized in this Ordinance and any such investments from time
to time may be sold and the proceeds thereof invested in other
such investments as aforesaid as and when the committee may
direct.
Originally 8 of 1930. Fraser 8 of 1930. Short title. Incorporation. [s. 2 cont.] Appointment of members of committee. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Vesting of property. (5 of 1925 and 10 of 1919.) Power to make regulations. Schedule. Saving. Nothing herein to affect the Chater Missions to Seamen Endowment Fund save as herein provided.

Originally 8 of 1930. Fraser 8 of 1930. Short title. Incorporation. [s. 2 cont.] Appointment of members of committee. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Vesting of property. (5 of 1925 and 10 of 1919.) Power to make regulations. Schedule. Saving. Nothing herein to affect the Chater Missions to Seamen Endowment Fund save as herein provided.

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PONTIFICAL FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 307.

PONTIFICAL FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTE
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of thePfocurator in Hong
Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute.

[1st September, 1933.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pontifical
Foreign Missions Institute Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony,
of Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute
shall be a corporation sole, hereinafter called the corpora-
tion, and shall have the name of 'The Procurator in Hong
Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute' and in
that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and
may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall
and may have and use a common seal.

3. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) the
corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,
purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings,
messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever
and wheresoever situated, and also to invest nioneys upon
mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements,
or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares
or securities of any government, municipality, corporation,
company or person, and also to purchase acquire and
possess vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature
and kind soever.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1),
the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property
in the Colony unless it shall have previously obtained the
special consent of the Governor in Council in each case.

(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, shares or securities, or vessels or other goods and
chattels which are for the time being vested in or belonging





to the corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation
may seem fit.

4. The legal estate in any properly whatsoever trans-
ferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall,
in the event of the death of the Procurator for the time
being in Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions
Institute, or in the event of his ceasing to hold office as
such Procurator, pass to his successor in such office when
appointed.

5. (I) When any person is appointed to the office
of Procurator in Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign
Missions Institute such person shall within three weeks
after his appointment or within such further time as may
be allowed by the Governor furnish to the Governor satis-
factory evidence of his appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of
the Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished
to the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence
of such appointment.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of the
said Procurator or his attorney and shall be signed by him
or his attorney, and such signing shall be taken as suffi-
cient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds and other
instruments and all deeds instruments and other documents
and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall
be signed by such Procurator or his attorney.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to afTect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
18 of 1933. Short title. Incorporation. Power of corporation. [s. 3 cont.] Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

18 of 1933. Short title. Incorporation. Power of corporation. [s. 3 cont.] Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

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PO LEUNG KUK INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 306.

PO LEUNG KUK INCORPORATION.

For the incorporation of the Chinese society for the preven
tion ol kidnapping and for the protection of women an
children, commonly known as the Po Leung Kuk.

[26th June, 1893.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Po Leung Kuk
Incorporation Ordinance.

2. (1) Such persons as have heretofore or may here-
after becorne donors of any sum not under twenty-five dollars
io the funds of the Society known as the Po Leung KLik
or may subscribe annually to such funds a sum not under
five dollars (so long as they continue so to subscribe), and
whose names are entered upon the register of members
hereinafter mentioned, shall be one body politic and
corporate, in name and in deed, by the name of 'The Po
Leung Kuk', hereinafter called the Society, with perpetual
succession and a common seal, and with power to purchase,
acquire, receive, take, hold, and enjoy to themselves and
their successors any lands, tenements, hereditaments,
buildings, or other property of any kind whatever for the
purposes of the Society, and shall and may sue or take
proceedings and be sued in their corporate name in all
courts.

(2) The Society shall have power to invest moneys
upon mortgage of any lands, hereditaments, buildings,
messuages or tenements or upon the mortgages, debentures,
stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or
company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels
and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(3) The Society shall have power, with the consent in
writing of the Governor, to grant, sell, convey, assign,
surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, transfer,
or otherwise dispose of, or to let or demise for any period
exceeding three years, any lands, buildings, messuages, or
tenements, which are for the time being vested in or belong-
ing to it. In any such transaction the signature of the





Governor indorsed on the document or documents by means
of which the transaction is eflected shall be sufficient
evidence that such consent was given.

(4) The Society shall have power to let or demise for
any period not exceeding three years, upon such terms as
it may deem fit, any lands, buildings, messuages or
tenements, which are for the time being vested in or belong-
ing to it.

(5) The Society shall have power to sell, convey,
assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage
demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, upoll
such terms as it may deem fit, any debentures, stocks, funds,
shares, securities, vessels, or other goods or chattels, which
are for the time being vested in or belonging to it.

(6) All deeds and other documents requiring the seal
of the Society shall be scaled with its common seal in the
presence of two members of the elected committee and shall
also be signed by them, and such signing shall be taken as
sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds and
documents.

3.The Society is incorporated for the purpose of
assisting the Government in the Suppression of kidnapping
and the protection of women and children, of aiding by
correspondence and other means in the detection and bring-
ing to justice of persons guilty of kidnapping and other
kindred offences, of helping to restore rescued persons to
their relatives or friends, and of providing a home for
rescued women and children until proper provision is made
for their marriage, adoption, or settlement in life, or other-
wise for their welfare.

4. The affairs of the Society shall be managed and its
variotis functions discharged by, a pernianent Board of
Direction, hereinafter called the Board, and by an elected
committee, hereinafter called the committee.

5. (1) The Board shall consist of such nuniber of
members as the Governor shall direct and shall include the
Secretary for Chinese Affairs, who shall be ex officio the
president, and also the members of the Executive Council





and of the Legislative Council representing the Chinese,
who shall be ex offlicio the vice-presidents.

(2) Vacancies in the Board shall be filled up by the
Governor, who may call upon the continuing members of
the Board for their recommendation.

(3) All appointments to the Board shall be held only
during the Governor's pleasure.

6. The Board 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
accomplishment of the objects and purposes thereof, subject
to an appeal to the Governor, as hereinafter provided, and
may at discretion depute, by regulations or otherwise, a
portion or the whole of its power and authority to the
elected committee.

7. The Board 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 or may expel any existing member and cause his
name to be erased from the register.

8. The Board shall have power to make regulations
for their procedure in the transaction of business and the
maintenance of good order at their meetings, and for the
guidance of the committee, and generally for all matters
relating to the administration and management of the Society
and the discharge of its various duties : Provided always
that a copy of such regulations shall be furnished to the
Colonial Secretary, and that they shall be subject to dis-
allowance, alteration, or amendment at any time by the
Governor.

9. All questions which may arisent any meeting of the
Board shall be decided by a majority of votes, and, in case
of an equality of votes, the president shall have a casting
vote in addition to his original vote : Provided that, in any





case in which the Board is divided in opinion, the president
or any two members of the Board may demand that the
point be referred to the Governor for his decision, which
shall in every such case be final.

10. (1) The committee shall consist of not less than
six and not more than twelve members of the Society, to
be elected as hereinafter mentioned, who shall from time to
time appoint one of their body to be chairman.

(2) Every rneinber of the committee shall hold office for
the term of one year only, bUt shall be eligible for re-election
at the expiration thereof.

11. (1) The members of the committee shall be elected
as occasion may require by a majority of votes of members
of the. Society who may be within the Colony, at the time
of such election.

(2) Every such member of the Society, whether a firm
or individual, shall be entitled to one vote only.

12. The committee shall, SUbject to such regulations as
may be made by the Boara in that behalf, undertake and
exercise the immediate supervision and management of the
work of the Society.

13. (1) The Board shall cause a register to be kept in
which every person or firm desiring to become a member of
the Society and being duly qualified shall, subject to the
provisions of section 7, be entitled to his name or firm
name inscribed.

(2) The Board 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.

(3) The Board shall also, 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 be verified
upon oath before a justice of the peace by two members
of the Board.





14. In case it is at any time shown, to the satisfaction
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, or the
objects and purposes of this Ordinance, or to fulfil the
conditions thereof, it shall be lawful for the Governor, 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.

15. In case the incorporation hereby granted ceases
under the provisions of section 13, all the property and
assets of the Society shall, for the purposes hereinafter
mentioned, become vested in the Crown, subject to the
rateable payment thereout of the just debts and liabilities,
if any, of the Society, to the extent of such property and
assets, and the balance of such property and assets shall
be applied by the Governor towards the objects for which
the Society was established or such of them as the Governor
may, in his discretion, deem best.

16. The buildings of the Society shall be kept and
maintained for the objects and purposes specified in section
3 out of the voluntary subscriptions to the Society and out
of such income or money as the Society may derive from
any source whatever.

17. All buildings and premises of the Society shall be
open, at all reasonable times, to the inspection of the
Governor, of the Commissioner of Police, of any two
unofficial justices of the peace who may be appointed by
the Governor to be visitors, or of any other persons whom
the Governor may appoint or authorize in writing in that
behalf. [18

18. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to direct
that the services of certain subordinate police officers and
of~certain district watchmen sliall he placed at the disposal,
of~ the Society on such terms and under such conditions ns
the Governor may sanction.





(2) Such police officers and district watchmen shall
regularly report their proceedings to the Commissioner of
Police. [19

19 Any person apprehended by any police officer shall,
without unreasonable delay, be sent or taken to a police
station, and any woman, or girl, or other person in respect
of whom there is cause to suspect that an offence has been,
or is being, or is about to be committed may be taken at
once to such place as may be provided by the Society or
to such other place of safety as the Secretary for Chinese
Affairs may direct, there to remain until proper provision
can be made for the protection of such person's interests and
liberty, and so that in the meantime the evidence of such
person may be available when required. [20
Originally 10 of 1893. Fraser 6 of 1893. Short title. Incorporation of Po leung Kuk society. [s. 2 cont.] Object and purpose of incorporation. Management of Society. Permanent Board of Direction. General powers of Board. Further powers of Board. Regulations. Determination of questions at meetings of Board. [s. 9 cont.] Constitution of committee. Election of committee. Powers of committee. Register of members. Cases in which incorporation may be determined. Disposal of property in case of incorportion ceasing. Buildings. Inspection of buildings. Use if services of police, etc., [s. 18 cont.] Course to be adopted when person apprehended.

Originally 10 of 1893. Fraser 6 of 1893. Short title. Incorporation of Po leung Kuk society. [s. 2 cont.] Object and purpose of incorporation. Management of Society. Permanent Board of Direction. General powers of Board. Further powers of Board. Regulations. Determination of questions at meetings of Board. [s. 9 cont.] Constitution of committee. Election of committee. Powers of committee. Register of members. Cases in which incorporation may be determined. Disposal of property in case of incorportion ceasing. Buildings. Inspection of buildings. Use if services of police, etc., [s. 18 cont.] Course to be adopted when person apprehended.

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PETITES SOEURS DES PAUVRES, ST. PERN, BRETAGNE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 305.

PETITES SCEURS DES PAUVRES,
ST. PERN, BRETAGNE INCORPORATION.

To Provide for the incorporation of the Mother Superior in
thisColony of bite Society of the Petites Sseurs des
Pauvres, SI. Pern, Bretagne, commonly known as the
Little Sisters of bite Poor.

[22nd May, 1925.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Petites Sceurs
des Pauvres, St. Pern, Bretagne, Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Mother Superior for the time being in this
Colony of the Society of the Petites Soeurs des Pauvres,
St. Pern, Bretagne, shall be a corporation sole, hereinafter
called the corporation, and shall have the name of
'The Mother Superior of the Petiles Scours des Pauvres, St.
Pern, Brelagne' and by that name shall and may sue and be
sued in all courts in this Colony and shall and may have
and use a common seal.

3. (1) Subject to the licence of the Governor having
been previously obtained in each case, the corporation shall
have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold
and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of
what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situated in this
Colony, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any
lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the
mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities
of any government, municipality, corporation or cornpany,
and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels
of what nature and kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,
fund. shares or securities, or other goods and chattels
whatsoever, which are for the time being vested in or





belonging to the corporation, upon such ternis as to the
corporation may seem fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever,
transferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever,
shall, in the event of the death of the Mother Superior
for the time being or in the event of her ceasing to hold office.
as such Mother Superior, pass to her successor in such office
when appointed.

5. All deeds and oilier instruments the seal
of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of the
person who is for the time being Mother Superior in this
Colony of the corporation or of her attorney duly authoirzed
and such deeds and instruments and all other docurnents,
instruments and writings requiring the signature of the
corporation shall be signed by such Mother Superior or
her attorney.

6. (1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office
of Mother Superior in this Colony of the corporation, such
person shall, within three weeks after her appointment or
within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor,
furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of her
appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette tinder the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of
such appointment.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or tinder them.
Originally 6 of 1925. Fraser 6 of 1925. Short title. Incorporation of th Mother Superior in Hong Kong of the Society of the petites Soeurs does Panvres, St. Pern. Bretagne. Powers of corporation. [s. 3 cont.] Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Execution of documents. Appointment of Mother Superior. Saving.

Originally 6 of 1925. Fraser 6 of 1925. Short title. Incorporation of th Mother Superior in Hong Kong of the Society of the petites Soeurs does Panvres, St. Pern. Bretagne. Powers of corporation. [s. 3 cont.] Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Execution of documents. Appointment of Mother Superior. Saving.

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PEAK TRAMWAY ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 304.

PEAK TRAMWAY.

To authorize the construction of the Peal, Tramway.

[3rd November, 1883.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Peak Tramway,
Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'carriage' includes all carriages, cars, and trucks used upon
the tramway;
'company' means the Peak Tramways Company Limited;
'Director' means the Director of Public Works;
'works' or 'undertaking' means the works or undertaking
of whatever nature which by this Ordinance are or is
authorized to be executed.

3. (1) The company may construct and maintain, sub-
ject to the provisions of this Ordinance and in accordance
with the plan which has been deposited as hereinafter
mentioned, the tramway hereinafter described, with all proper
stations, crossings, passing places, sidings, junctions, rails,
turn-tables, plates, offices, weigh-bridges, sheds, works, and
conveniences connected therewith or for the purposes there-
of, and may work and use the same.

(2) The tramway authorized by this Ordinance is a
partly single and partly double line, commencing on the
south side of the southwest boundary of land held by the
war department at its junction with Garden Road, thence
passing in a southerly direction up the hillside, crossing over
Kennedy and Plantation Roads by means of bridges, to a
terminus at Victoria Gap on and adjoining Rural Building
Lot 80, as such tramway is now shown on a plan deposited
with the Director dated the 12th day of April, 1950, and
signed on his behalf and on behalf of the company :
Provided that such alterations as the company think fit may
be made in the position of the rail-tracks of the tramway as
shown on the said plan so long as they are within the limits
of deviation shown on the said plan.





4. Subject to the approval of the Governor in Council,
the company may alter the levels of the ground on which the
tramway is laid, make and construct all necessary cuttings
and embankments, bridges, viaducts, culverts, catch-water
drains, and other works, and divert streams : Provided
always that the earth excavated and thrown to waste is
disposed of in such manner as to prevent its being washed
down by rain into the harbour.

5. Subject to the approval of the Governor in Council,
after timely and adequate notification by public advertisement
or otherwise of the intention of the company to apply for such
approval, the company may construct and maintain, subject
to the provisions of this Ordinance and in accordance with
plans to be previously deposited with the Director, all such
crossings, passing places, sidings, junctions, turn-tables, and
other works in addition to those particularly specified in and
authorized by this Ordinance as may be approved by the
Governor in Council, and may work and use the same.

6. The tramway shall be constructed on a gauge not
exceeding five feet in width, and with steel rails, which shall,
before being laid down, be approved by the Director.

7. (1) Where the tramway, or any work connected
therewith, interferes with any sewer, drain, watercourse, or
subway, or in any way affects the sewerage or drainage.of
the Colony, the company shall not commence such tramway
or work until it has given to the Director fourteen days' notice
in writing of its intention to do so together with all necessary
particulars relating thereto, nor until the Director has signi-
fied his approval of the same, unless he does not signify, his
approval, disapproval, or other directions within fourteen
days after service of the said notice and particulars.

(2) The company, shall comply with the directions of the
Director in the execution of the said works and shall provide
by new, altered, or substituted works, in such manner as he
may require, for the proper protection of, and for prevent-
ing injury or impediment to, the sewers and works herein-
before referred to by or by reason of the tramway, and shall
save harmless the Director against the expense occasioned
thereby.





(3) All such works shall be done by or under the super-
intendence of the Director, at the cost and expense of the
company.

(4) When any new, altered, or substituted work is com-
pleted, the same shall thereafter be as completely under the
control of the Director, and be maintained by him, as any
other sewers or works.

8. If any difference arises between the company and
the Director with respect to any interference or control
exercised or claimed to be exercised by the company or the
Director, by virtue of this Ordinance, in relation to the tram-
way or any work, or in relation to any work or proceeding
of the Director, or with respect to the propriety or the mode
of execution of any work relating to the tramway, or on the
question whether any work is such as ought to satisfy, the
Director, or with respecl to any other subject or thing
regulated by or comprised in this Ordinance, the matter in
difference shall (unless otherwise specially provided for by
this Ordinance) be settled by the Governor in Council, on
the application of either party.

9. (1) If the company discontinues the working of the
trarnway or of any part thereof for the space of six months,
(such discontinuance not being occasioned by circumstances
beyond the control of the company, the want of sufficient
funds not being considered a circumstance beyond its con-
trol), the Governor in Council may, by order, declare that
the powers of the company in respect of such tramway, or the
part thereof so discontinued, shall, form the date of such
order, be at an end, and thereupon the said powers of the
company shall cease and determine, unless the tramway is
purchased by the Government in the manner provided by this
Ordinance.
(2) Where any such order has been made, the Director
May, at any time after the expiration of two months from
the date of such order, under the authority of a certificate to
that effect, remove the tramway or part of the tramway so
discontinued, and the company shall pay the cost of such
removal which shall be certified by the Director, and the
certificate shall be final and conclusive.
(3) If the company fails to pay the amount so certified
within two months after delivery of such certificate or a true





copy thereof, the Director may, without previous notice to
the company (but without prejudice to any other remedy
which he may have for the recovery of the amount), sell and
dispose of the materials so removed, either by public auction
or private sale, and for such sum and to such person as he
may think fit, and may, out of the proceeds of such sale,
reimburse himself the amount of the cost certified as afore-
said and of the cost of sale, and the balance, if any, shall be
paid to the company. [10

10. If it appears to the Governor in Council that the
company is insolvent, so that it is unable to maintain such
tramway or work the same with advantage to the public, the
Governor in Council rnay inquire into the financial affairs of
the company, and if it appears that the company is so in-
solvent as aforesaid, he may, by order, declare that the
powers of the company shall, at the expiration of six months
from the making of the order, be at an end, and the powers
of the company shall cease and determine at the expiration
of the said period, unless the tramway is purchased by the
Government in the manner provided by this Ordinance; and
thereupon the Director may remove the tramway in like man-
ner and subject to the same provisions as to the payment of
the cost of such removal, and to the same remedy for recovery
of such cost, in every respect as in cases of removal under
section 9.

11. (1) The Governor in Council may, within six
months after the expiration of twenty-eight years from the
time when the company was empowered to construct the
tramway, and within six months after the expiration of every
subsequent period of seven years, or within three months
after any order made by the Governor in Council under
section 9 or 10, by notice in writing require the company to
sell, and thereupon the company shall sell, to the Govern-
ment its undertaking on the terms of paying the then value
(exclusive of any allowance for past or future profits of the
undertaking or any compensation for compulsory sale or other
consideration whatsoever) of the tramway, and all lands,
buildings, works, materials, and plant, suitable to and used
for the purposes of its undertaking, such value to be, in cases
of difference, determined upon petition to the court in a
summary way : Provided that, if on any such land the
company shall have erected any building, or any portion of





a building, for purposes other than its undertaking, such
land and the whole of such building shall be deemed to be
included in the undertaking unless the Governor in Council
by notice in writing declares that such land and building
shall be excluded from the sale.
(2) When any such sale has been made, all the rights,
powers, and authorities of the company in respect of the
undertaking sold, or, where any order has been made by the
Governor in Council under section 9 or 10, all the rights,
powers, and authorities of the company previous to the
making of such order in respect of the undertaking sold, shall
be transferred to, vested in, and may be exercised by the
Government. [12

12. The carriages, motive power,machinery, and
apparatus of any kind whatsoever, used on or for the tramway
shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council,
and no carriage, motive power, machinery, or apparatus,
which has been disapproved by the Governor in Council shall
be used on or for the tramway. [13

13. Every carriage used on the tramway shall be so con
structed as to provide for the safety of passengers and for
their safe entrance to and exit from, and accommodation in
such carriage, and their protection from the machinery used
for drawing or propelling such carriage. [14

14. The Director or any officer appointed for that pur
pose by the Governor in writing, may inspect any engine or
carriage used by the company and the machinery therein, and
also any rope or other machinery of the tramway and report
thereon ; and the Governor may, by order, prohibit the use
of any such engine, carriage, rope, or machinery which may
be reported to be unsafe or unfit for use. [15

15. (1) The Governor in Council may by rules
prescribe or provide for-
(a) working and control of the tramway;
(b)use of the warning apparatus affixed to the engines
or used in any other way;
(c) emission of smoke or steam frorn the engines;
(d)engines and carriages being brought to a stand at
such places, and in such cases of impending danger,
as may be deemed proper for securing safety ;





(e)entrance to, exit from, and accommodation in the
carriages and the protection of passengers from the
machinery of any engine used for drawing or pro-
pelling such carriages;
the rate of speed of the engines and carriages;
(g) stopping of carriages using the tramways;
(h)due publicity for all rules and by-laws relating to
the tramway, by exhibition thereof in conspicuous
places;
(i)safety of the public in all cases in which it may
appear that such safety is or is likely to be en-
dangered or imperilled; and
contraventions of such rules which shall be offences
on the part of the company or any other person and
prescribing penalties therefor : Provided that no
penalty so prescribed shall exceed a fine of two
hundred and fifty dollars or in the case of a continu-
ing offence a fine of fifty dollars for each day during
which the offence shall have continued.
(2) Subject to the previous approval of the Governor in
Council, it shall be lawful for the company to make by-laws-
(a)for preventing the commission of any nuisance in or
upon any carriage, or in or against any premises
belonging to the company;
(b)for regulating the travelling in or upon any carriage
belonging to the company; and
(c) providing that contraventions of any such by-laws
shall be offences and prescribing penalties therefor :
Provided that no penalty so prescribed shall exceed
a fine of one hundred dollars. [16

16. (1) Subject to the approval of the Governor in
Council the company may sell or assign its undertaking, or
any part thereof, to such person, by public auction or private
contract, or partly by public auction and partly by private
contract, and with, under, and subject to such terms and
conditions in all respects, as the company may think fit,
with power at any such sale to fix a reserve price for or
buy in the same.

(2) When any such sale or assignment has been made,
all the rights, powers, authorities, obligations, and liabilities
of the company in respect to the undertaking, or part thereof,
sold or assigned, shall be transferred to, vested in, and may





be exercised by, and shall attach to, the person to whom the
same has been sold or assigned, in like manner as if the
undertaking, or part thereof, sold or assigned, was con-
structed by such person under the powers conferred by this
Ordinance, and in reference to the same he shall be deemed
to be the company. [18

17. Subject to the approval of the Governor in Council,
the company may demise its undertaking, or any part thereof,
to such person and for such term, and on such conditions, in
all respects as the company may think fit, to take effect either
in possession or at some future date, and either with or with-
out a premium as a consideration for such demise. [19

18. It shall be lawful for the company to borrow money
on mortgage of all or any part of its undertaking, and for
that purpose to assign or demise by way of mortgage all or
any portion of its lands, messuages, or tenements, erections,
buildings, works, rolling stock, plant, machinery, chattels,
and effects to any person, and to enter into all such
covenants, provisos, declarations, and agreements, as the
company may think fit. [20

19. The Governor in Council may, by order, direct that
precedence over the company and all other persons in the
user of the tramway be taken for defensive or military pur-
poses or for the passage of troops and war material, on
giving to the company, on each occasion of such user, three
clear days' notice, and shall direct the payment to the com-
pany therefor of such tolls as may be agreed on. If no
agreement is come to, then the amount of such tolls shall be
determined upon petition to the court in a summary way. [21

20. Save and except passengers' luggage not exceeding
sixteen pounds in weight or one cubic foot in measurement,
the company shall not be bound to carry any animals, goods,
merchandise, minerals, or parcels. [22

21. (1) The company may demand and take the tolls
specified in the Schedule, which shall be paid to such per-
sons, and at such places, and in such manner as the company
may, by notice annexed to the list of tolls, appoint.





(2) A list, printed in the Eliglish and Chinese languages,
of all the tolls authorized to be taken shall be exhibited in a
conspicuous place at the offices of the company and inside
each of the carriages used upon the Provided
that if there is any variation between the English and Chinese
prints of the sald list, the English prints shall prevail.

(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by
order to amend the Schedule in any way which he may think
fit. [23

22. If the carriages during any Journey contain their
authorized complement of passengers, the company shall not
be bound to find accommodation for any other passenger,
notwithstanding that he may have purchased a ticket entitling
him to travel on the tramway. [24

23. Any person who Wilfully obstructs any person
acting under the authority of the company in the lawful
exercise of any of the powers hereb conferred, or damages
or destroys any property of the company shall be liable to a
fine of one hundred dollars. [25

24. Any person who wilfully and without lawful
excuse-
(a)interferes with, removes, or alters any part of the
tramway or of the works connected therewith; or
(b)places or throws any stones, dirt, wood, refuse, or
other materials or, any part of the tramway ; or
(c)does or causes to be done anything in such manner
as to obstruct any carriage using the tramway or to
endanger the lives of persons therein or thereon ; or
(d) aids or assists in the doing of any of such things,
shall be liable (in addition to any proceedings by way of
indictment or otherwise to which he may be subject) to a
fine of one hundred dollars. [26

25. Any person who-
(a)while travelling or having travelled in any carriage,
avoids or attempts to avoid payment of his fare; or
(b)having paid his fare for a certain distance, know-
ingly and wilfully proceeds in any carriage beyond
such distance and does not pay the additional fare.
for the additional distance, or attempts to avoid pay-
ment thereof; or





(c)knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects, on
arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare,
to quit any carriage,
shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars. [27

26. Every passenger shall, on request by any officer or
servant of the company, either produce, and if so requested
deliver up, a ticket showing that his fare is paid, or pay his
fare from the place whence he started, or give the officer or
servant his name and address; and in case of default any
such passenger shall be liable to a fine of one hundred
dollars. [28

27. It shall be lawful for any officer or servant of the
company, and all persons called by him to his assistance, to
seize and detain any person discovered either in or im-
mediately after committing or attempting to commit any such
offence as is irientioned in sections 25 and 26 and 'whose
name or residence is unknown to such officer or servant, until
such person can be conveniently taken to a police station for
safe cuslody and detained until he is discharged by due
course of law. [29

28. No person shall be entitled to carry or to require to
be carried on the tramway any dangerous goods as defined
by the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873; and any person
who sends by the tramway any, such goods, without distinctly
marking their nature on the outside of the vessel or packag`e
containing the same, or otherwise giving notice in writing to
the book-keeper or other servant with whom the same are left,
at the time of such sending, shall be liable to a fine of
one hundred dollars.It shall further be lawful for the
company to refuse to take any parcel that it may Suspect to
contain any such dangerous goods or require the same to
be opened to ascertain the fact. [30

29. Any summons, writ, or other proceeding required
to be served on the company may be served by the same
being left at, or sent by post directed to, the principal office
of the company, or being given or sent by, post directed to
the secretary, or, in case there is no secretary, the solicitor of
the company. [31





30. With respect to notices, and to the delivery, thereof
by or to the company, the following provisions shall have
effect-
(a) every notice shall be in writing; and
(b)a notice to be delivered by or to the company to or
by any other company or person may be delivered
by being left at the office of such other company or
person, or at the then present or then last-known
place of abode or residence of such person, or of
his ostensible agent, or of other the agent who pays
the rents, rates, and taxes payable in respect of the
property of such person, or by being affixed on some
conspicuous part of any lands affectcd or intended
to be affected by such notice, or by being left at the
office of the company, as the case may be, or by
being sent by post in a registered letter addressed,
as the case may be, to the clerk or secretary of such
other company at its principal office, or to such per-
son at his then present or then last-known place of
abode or residence or at his office or business
premises, or by being so sent by post addressed to
the ostensible agent or agents of such Person, or
other the agent or agents aforesaid, or to the clerk
or secretary of the company at its principal office.
[32

31. (1) If any party has committed any irregularity,
trespass or other wrongful proceeding in the execution of this
Ordinance or by virtue of any power or authority hereby
given, and if, before action brought in respect thereof, such
party makes tender of sufficient amends to the party injured,
such last-mentioned party, shall not recover in any such
action.

(2) If no such tender has been made, it shall be lawful
for the defendant, by leave of the court wherein such action
is pending, at any time before answer filed, to pay into court
such surn of money, as he may think fit, and thereupon such
proceedings shall be had as in other cases where defendants
are allowed to pay money into court. [33

32. Any toll, or penalty imposed by this Ordinance, the
recovery of which is not otherwise provided for, may be
recovered before a magistrate. [34





33. The conipany, shall be answerable for all accidents,
damages, and injuries happening through its act or default,
or through the act or defattit of any person in its employment,
by reason or in consequence of any of its works or carriages,
and shall save harrifless all other companies or bodies,
collectively and individually, their officers and servants, from
all darnages and cost in respect of such accidents, damages,
and injuries. [35

34. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, the
company and any persons using the tramway shall be
subject and liable to the provisions of any general Ordin
ance now in force or which may hereafter be passed relating
to tramways, or by which any tax or duty may be granted
or imposei for or in respect of tramways or the passengers
or traffic conveyed thereon, and to any condition, regulation
or restriction which may be imposed on the use of tramways,
or on the use on tramways of animal power, steam power,
or any mechanical power, by any such general Ordinance
as aforesaid. [36

35. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deerned
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs and
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them. [37

SCHEDULE.

TABLE OF TOLLS.
1.................................For every passenger travelling on the tramway or any
part thereof-
(a) Lower Terminus to Upper Terminus, any sum
not exceeding ..................60 cents
(b) Lower Terminus to May Road, any sum not
exceeding ....: .........40
(c) May Road to Upper Terminus, any sum not
exceeding ...............40
(d) N.C.O.'s and men of Regular Forces, any
distance, any sum not exceeding 40
Provided that domestic servants and workmen occupying seats
allocated to such class or classes of persons by the Company shall not
be charged more than the following tolls-
(a) Lower Terminus to Upper Terminus, any sum
not exceeding.................................................. 25 cents




(b) Lower Terminus to May Road, any sum not
exceeding ................. 15 cents
2............For every small animal, per head, any distance 10 cents
3............For parcels, any distance-not exceeding 7 lb. in
weight, each ......................5
Exceeding 7 lb. and not exceeding 14 lb . 10
Exceeding 14 lb. and not exceeding 28 lb . 15,
Exceeding 28 lb. and not exceeding 56 lb . 20
Exceeding 56 lb. in weight, such sum as the company
may think fit.
The weight shall be determined according to the usual avoirdupois
weight.


(Subsidiary legislation under this Chapter, with sub-
sequent amendments (if any) incorporated, is set out under
the following short titles-

Date. Short Title. Page.
4th March, 1927. Peal, Traviway Rules 302
ioth August, 1923. Peal, Tramway By-Laws 3o5)

PEAK TRAMWAY RULES.
(Cap. 304, section 15(1).)
(Ordinance No. 2 of 1883)
[4th March, 1927.]

1. These rules may be cited as the Peak Trainway Rules.

2. These rules shall apply to the tramway referred to in
subsection (2) of section 3 of the Ordinance, commonly known as
the Peak Tramway.

3. In these rules, 'Superintendent Engineer' means the
superintendent engineer of the company, and includes every acting
superintendent engineer and every assistant superintendent engineer
of the company.

PART I.
4.(1) (a) The Company is authorized to use simultaneously
a Type A carriage and a Type B carriage or two Type
A carriages or two Type B carriages.





(b)A Type A carriage is a carriage of not unladen weight
of not less than 140 cwt. nor more than 155 cwt. A
Type B carriage is a carriage of net unladen weight of
not less than 130 cwt., nor more than 140 cwt.
(c)The maximum permitted number of passengers to be carried
on a Type A carriage shall not exceed 55, and on a Type
B carriage, 62.
(2) In reckoning the number of passengers two children under
the age of 12 years, not being babies in arms, shall count as
one passenger, and babies in arms shall not be counted.

(3) In addition to the passengers each passenger carriage may
carry one brakesman, one ticket collector and one ticket inspector.

(4) Any servant of the company, other than those specified
in paragraph (3), when travelling on a passenger carriage must
be counted as a passenger for the purpose of this rule.

5. The weight of any luggage, goods or merchandise of any
description whatever conveyed by any passenger carriage together
with the weight of the passengers in such carriage (who for this
purpose shall be held to weigh 140 lb. each) shall not exceed
3.5 tons. No luggage, goods or merchandise shall be conveyed in
any carriage attached to any passenger carriage.

6. Except at the termini at Garden Road and Victoria Gap
no carriage shall stop at any place, nor shall any place be used
for the purpose oC taking up or depositing passengers, unless such
place has been certified by the Director as safe and suitable for
the purpose, and any such place when so certified shall be kept
and maintained by the company in constant good order and con-
dition.

7. At all times while the carriages are running the company
shall keep one or mgre competent watchmen employed to prevent
any stones, dirt, wood, refuse or other materials or any obstruction
from being placed on the permanent way or rails and to remove
any such materials or obstructions therefrom.

8. The maximum speed of any carriage at any point shall
not exceed 12 miles an hour, and such speed shall be controlled
by an overspeed prevention device. No carriage shall pass through
movable facing points at a speed exceeding 4 miles an hour.

9. All electrical apparatus shall be suitably guarded for the
prevention of accidents, and shall comply with any regulations
made under section 3 of the Electricity Supply Ordinance, and for
the time being in force.

10. The company shall continue and maintain the following
existing works, equipment and things, to the satisfaction of the
Director-
(a)a track indicator on the engine room starting platform
to show the stopping positions, with the names of the
stations clearly marked thereon in brass letters or charac-
ters in English and Chinese;
(b)the marking of the control lever on the starting platform
of the engine room to indicate clearly the direction of
drive;
(c)a framed list showing the detail in English and Chinese
of bell signals commonly in use for operation of the cars,
posted in a conspicuous position in the engine room.





11. The company shall give one month's notice in writing to
the Director of every intended change or alteration of or in any
carriage or engine used on or in connexion with the tramway,
or of or in the permanent way or rails, and the Director may if
he thinks fit require the same to be tested, and may where the
circumstances of the case permit allow any such change or altera-
tion to be made prior to the expiration of such notice as aforesaid.

12. The Director shall be immediately notified by the company
of any change in the person performing, temporarily or otherwise,
the duties of the Superintendent Engineer.

13. The rope shall be examined by the Superintendent
Engineer for broken wires, and the circumference gauged, at least
twice a week during the first month of its being put in use,
and at least once a week afterwards till signs of wear appear,
when the examination must be made daily, and the company shall
be responsible for the renewal of the rope directly such renewal
becomes necessary in the opinion of the Superintendent Engineer.

14. The undercarriages and brake gear of the passenger
carriages, and the apparatus for starting or stopping the carriages,
shall be subjected to a thorough examination by the Superintendent
Engineer at least once a week, when the brake gear shall be
released, the brake jaws screwed up by hand, all parts hammer-
tested, the tightness of all nuts tested by spanner, all parts well
greased or oiled as required and the brake gear re-set. The holding
down bolts of the brake rail and running rails shall be tested and
tightened every week.

15. No passenger carriage shall be used on the tramway, or
continued in use, unless and until the inner faces of the brake
jaws are roughened by chisel cross cuts.

16. The inner faces of the brake jaws of the passenger
carriages shall be subjected to careful examination by the Superin-
tendent Engineer at least once a week. If from any cause the
roughened surface has become smooth such faces shall be re-
roughened in manner aforesaid before the carriage is again used
on the tramway. The cause of smoothing shall be ascertained and
removed if practicable,

17. The faces of the centre rail, where the gradient exceeds
1 in 3, shall be roughened by chisel cross cuts; the roughened
faces shall be treated with a coating of tar applied whilst hot.

18. The roughened faces of the centre rail shall be subjected
to a careful examination by the Superintendent Engineer at least
once a week; any smoothing shall be remedied as soon as prac-
ticable by re-roughening in manner aforesaid and by again treat-
ing with a coating of tar applied whilst hot. The cause of smooth-
ing shall be ascertained and removed if practicable.

19. The points and signalling apparatus and lights in con-
nexion with the points shall be examined weekly.

20. All accident prevention apparatus shall be examined weekly
by the Superintendent Engineer.





21. All viaducts, cuttings, embankments, cross drainage, track
bed and station works shall be thoroughly examined once every
three months, and during every period of heavy and constant rain,
and after earth tremors, by the Superintendent Engineer, or if
the Governor in Council thinks it advisable by an engineer approved
by the Director.

22. All electrical contingency devices shall be tested as to their
efficiency at least once a week by the Superintendent Engineer in
a reasonable manner approved by the Director.

23. A record of all tests, examinations and inspections by the
Superintendent Engineer or the aforesaid approved engineer shall
be kept by the company and a copy shall be forwarded to the
Director quarterly.

PART II.

24. No person shall remain on board any passenger carriage
if directed by any servant of the company to leave such passenger
carriage in order to enable the company to comply with the pro-
visions of any of these rules.

25. No person, not being a servant of the company, shall alight
from or board any carriage while such carriage is in motion, or
at any place or spot not being one of the appointed stopping places
for passengers during the run as then being made by that carriage.

26. No person, not being a servant of the company or duly
authorized by the company, shall go or be upon any part, of the
tramway line or track, which term for the purposes of this rule
shall include all the tramway buildings, sheds, steps, ways, embank-
ments, bridges, viaducts, cuttings, areas and spaces not provided
for the use of passengers.

27. If the company or any other person contravenes any of
the provisions of the following rules the company or such other
person shall be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars,
or in the case of a continuing offence to a fine of fifty dollars
for each day during which the offence shall have continued-
In Part I, rules 4(1)(c), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 or 16;
In Part II, rules 24, 25 or 26.

PEAK TRAMWAY BY-LAWS.
(Cap. 304, section 15(2).)
[10th August, 1923.]
1. These by-laws shall extend and apply to every carriage
of the company and to all places with respect to which the company
has power to make by-laws.

2. In these by-laws-
'carriage' includes all carriages, cars and trucks used upon the
tramway:





'conductor' includes any officer or servant in the employment of
the company and having charge of any carrilage either tem-
porarily or otherwise and shall include in inspector of the
company;
'interior of a carriage' shall not include the non-enclosed portions
of such carriage;
'premises' includes all premises of whatsoever nature used in
connexion with the tramway.

3. When a carriage stops, no person shall board the carriage
until all passengers desiring to alight therefroni shall have done
so.

4. No person shall enter, mount or leave, or attempt to enter,
mount or leave, any carriage in motion.

5. No passenger or other person not being a servant of the
company shall travel on any carriage otherwise than on a seat
provided for passengers.

6. When any carriage contains the full number of passengers
which it is authorized to contain, no additional person shall enter,
mount or remain in or on any such carriage when warned by the
conductor not to do so, and any such additional person in or on
any such carriage in breach of this by-law shall leave the said
carriage when requested by the conductor to do so.

7. No passenger shall smoke in the interior of my carriage,
and no person shall spit in, on, from or against any carriage, or
on any of the company's premises.

8. No passenger or other person shall, while travelling in or
upon any carriage, play or perform upon any musical instrument.

9. No person in a state of intoxication shall be or enter upon
the company's premises or enter or mount upon any carriage, and
if found in or upon any carriage, shall leave the carriage immediately
on being requested to do so by the conductor.

10. No person shall swear or use obscene or offensive language
whilst on the company's premises or in or upon any carriage, or
wilfully interfere with the comfort of any passenger.

11. No person shall commit any nuisance in, on or against any
carriage, tramway station, waiting room or premises used in con-
nexion with the tramway.

12. No person shall wilfully cut, soil or damage the company's
premises or the seating accommodation or any other part of any
carriage, or remove or deface any number plate, printed or other
notice, in or on any carriage, or break or scratch any window of
or otherwise wilfully damage any carriage. Any person acting in
contravention of this by-law shall be liable to the penalty prescribed
by these by-laws, in addition to the liability to pay the amount of
any damage done.





13. A person whose dress or clothing might in the opinion of
the conductor soil or injure the carriage or the dress or clothing
of any passenger, or who in the opinion of the conductor might for
any other reason be offensive to passengers, shall not mount, enter
or remain on or in any carriage, and may be prevented from so
doing, and if found on or in any carriage shall, on request of the
conductor, leave the same upon the fare, if previously paid, being
returned.

14. Every passenger shall upon demand pay to the conductor or
other duly authorized officer of the company the fare legally demand-
able for the journey and accept a ticket therefor. Any person
leaving the car (except as provided in by-law 19 of these by-laws)
shall be deemed to have completed his journey.

15. Every passenger shall show his ticket (whether season or
coupon or other form of ticket) when required to the conductor or
any duly authorized servant of the company, and shall also when
required either deliver up such ticket for inspection or pay the
fare legally demanable for the distance travelled over by such
passenger or furnish the conductor with his or her true name and
address.

16. No dog or other animal shall be allowed in or on any
carriage except on a lead, and no dog or other animal shall be
allowed in or on any carriage, whether a season ticket shall have
issued by the company in respect of such do., or other animal or
not, except by permission of the conductor, nor in any case in
which the conveyance of such dog or other animal might be offensive
or an annoyance to passengers. No person shall take a dog or
other animal into or on any carriage after having been requested
not to do so by the conductor. Any dog or other animal taken into
or on any carriage in breach of this by-law shall be removed by
the person in charge of such dog or other animal from the carriage
immediately upon request by the conductor, and in default of
compliance with such request may be removed by or under the
direction of the conductor.

17. No person other than a member of His Majesty's naval,
military, air or police forces shall travel in or on any carriage of
the company with loaded firearms, and no person save as aforesaid
shall travel with cartridges (except cartridges for sporting use),
gunpowder or other explosive materials.

18. No passenger shall wilfully obstruct or impede any officer
or servant of the company in the execution of his duty upon or
in connexion with any carriage or tramway of the company.

19. If at any time a carriage becomes disabled or in any way
damaged, or from any cause unable to proceed, the passengers shall
upon the request of the conductor leave the same, and if such
passengers have paid their fares, they shall not be entitled to
demand back the amount of their fares so paid, but on production
of their tickets shall be allowed to travel by the next available
carriage the remainder of the distance in respect of which they
have paid their fares. No person shall except with the leave of
the conductor enter a disabled or damaged carriage.





20. Any person who commits, whilst on the company's premises
or in or on any carriage, any breach of these by-laws shall if the
offence is continued be liable, in addition to incurring the penalty
hereinafter provided, to be immediately removed from the carriage
and the company's premises by or under the direction of the con-
ductor and if such person shall have paid his fare he shall not
be entitled to claim its return.

21. Any person who offends against or commits a breach of
any of these by-laws shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten
dollars.

22. There shall be placed and kept placed in a conspicuous
position at the company's termini and at its registered offices printed
copies in the English language of these by-laws.

23. These by-laws are in addition to and not in substitution
for the provisions and powers contained in the Ordinance, and any
rules thereunder made by the Governor in Council.
Originally 6 of 1883. Fraser 2 of 1883. 24 of 1950. 4 of 1951. Short title. Interpretation. Power to construct and work certain tramways. 24 of 1950, Schedule. Power to alter levels of ground, etc. Power to make additional crossings, etc. gauge. Protection of sewers, etc. Settlement of differences between company and Director. Discontinuance of tramway by company. [s. 9 cont.] Proceedings in case of insolvency of company. Purchase by Government of tramway. Motive power, etc. construction of carriages. Inspection of engines, etc. Rules and by-laws. [s. 15 cont.] Power to sell undertaking. Power to let undertaking. Power to mortgage undertaking. Right of user by Government. Company may refuse to carry certain goods. Toils Schedule. [s. 21 cont.] Limitation of obligation to carry passengers. Obstruction of person acting under authority of company, etc. Interfering with tramway, etc. Avoiding payment of fare, etc. Production of tickets on request; avoiding payment of fare. 52 & 53 Vict, c. 57, s. 5. Detention of offender. Penalty for bringing dangerous goods on tramway. (1 of 1873.) Service of summons, etc. Form and delivery of notice. Tender of amends. Recovery of toils, etc. Responsibility of company for damage. Saving for general Ordinances, etc. Saving. 4 of 1951. Schedule. [s. 21.] G.N. 671/46. [Sch. Cont.] Regulations. Fraser, vol. 1, p. 122. G.N.A. 8/50. G.N.A. 281/50. G.N.A. 8/50. (Cap. 103.) G.N.A. 281/50. Regulations-Fraser, vol. 1, p. 126.

Originally 6 of 1883. Fraser 2 of 1883. 24 of 1950. 4 of 1951. Short title. Interpretation. Power to construct and work certain tramways. 24 of 1950, Schedule. Power to alter levels of ground, etc. Power to make additional crossings, etc. gauge. Protection of sewers, etc. Settlement of differences between company and Director. Discontinuance of tramway by company. [s. 9 cont.] Proceedings in case of insolvency of company. Purchase by Government of tramway. Motive power, etc. construction of carriages. Inspection of engines, etc. Rules and by-laws. [s. 15 cont.] Power to sell undertaking. Power to let undertaking. Power to mortgage undertaking. Right of user by Government. Company may refuse to carry certain goods. Toils Schedule. [s. 21 cont.] Limitation of obligation to carry passengers. Obstruction of person acting under authority of company, etc. Interfering with tramway, etc. Avoiding payment of fare, etc. Production of tickets on request; avoiding payment of fare. 52 & 53 Vict, c. 57, s. 5. Detention of offender. Penalty for bringing dangerous goods on tramway. (1 of 1873.) Service of summons, etc. Form and delivery of notice. Tender of amends. Recovery of toils, etc. Responsibility of company for damage. Saving for general Ordinances, etc. Saving. 4 of 1951. Schedule. [s. 21.] G.N. 671/46. [Sch. Cont.] Regulations. Fraser, vol. 1, p. 122. G.N.A. 8/50. G.N.A. 281/50. G.N.A. 8/50. (Cap. 103.) G.N.A. 281/50. Regulations-Fraser, vol. 1, p. 126.

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NORTH POINT WHARVES LIMITED ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 303.

NORTH POINT WHARVES LIMITED.
To authorize the making of by-laws by the North Point
Wharves, Limited.

[29th April, 1949.]

1. This Ordinance rnay be cited as the North Point
Wharves Limited Ordinance.

2. (1) In this Ordinance and any by-laws made
thereunder---
'company' means the North Point Wharves, Limited, their
successors and assigns;
'official' includes only the persons acting in the following
capacities in the employment of either the person, firm
or company for the time being acting as general
managers and/or agents, or of the company, namely
managing director, general manager, inanager, marine
superintendent, secretary, shipping manager, assistant
shipping manager, chief clerk, accoLintant, wharf
manager, assistant wharf manager, berthing master,
engineer, wharfinger, cargo superintendent, or wharf
police officer.

(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, if the Colonial
Secretary gives notice in the Gazette that any person, firm
or company is acting as the general managers or agents
of the company, such person, firm or company shall be
deemed to be so acting from the date of such notice so
appearing until revocation by the Colonial Secretary, of such
notice is published in the Gazette.

3. (1) The company shall have power, subject to the
approval of the Governor in Council, to make by-laws in
connexion with the condLict of its business at the
and godowns belonging to the company and situate at
North Point, and the maintenance of order and safety
thereon, and such by-laws may prohibit, conditionally or:
otherwise, the usage by passengers or by the public of the
godowns, buildings, wharves, roads and premises of the
Company.





(2) A copy of the by-laws so made clearly printed in
English and Chinese shall be posted in a conspicuous place
on the premises.

4. Any by-law made under section 3 may declare any
breach of any such by-law to be an offence and may
prescribe penalties therefor: Provided that no penalty so
prescribed shall exceed a fine of five hundred dollars:
Provided also that until such breaches and such penalties
are so prescribed by by-law, any person who commits a
breach of the by-laws made under section 3 shall be liable
to a fine of five hundred dollars.

5. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs and
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance 'and those claiming by, from or under them.

NORTH POINT WHARVES LIMITED BY-LAWS.

(Cap. 303, section 3)
(Ordinance No. 19 of 1949)
[15th July, 1949.]

1.(a) Every master or commanding officer of any vessel
berthed alongside any of the company's wharves shall shift
his berth on being requested to do so by an official of the
company.
(b)On a typhoon signal being hoisted every master or
commanding officer of any vessel berthed alongside any of
the company's wharves shall immediately raise steam or
otherwise prepare to sail and thereupon leave the wharf on
being requested to do so by an official of the company.

2. No person unless then in the employment of the company
or belonging to or having business with vessels alongside, shall enter
or be upon any of the company's premises without the licence of an
official of the company.

3. No merchandise, cargo, coal, wagon, carriage, cart, truck,
crane or other conveyance or machine shall be taken on to or removed
from any of the company's premises without the licence of an official
of the company.

4. No nuisance of any description shall be committed on or
about any of the company's premises.






5. No steamer, vessel, launch, lighter, boat, junk, sampan or
other craft of any description shall make fast to, or hold on to, or
lay alongside of or block the approaches to any of the company's
wharves without the licence of an official of the company.

6. No person shall use the boat steps of the company's wharves
for the landing or delivery of cargo and not more than two launches
shall lay alongside the boat steps at any one time.

7. No person shall smoke inside any of the company's buildings.

8. No person shall interfere, meddle with or move in any way
any of the company's cranes, trucks or other machines or appliances,
or make use of its facilities without the permission of an official
of the company.

9. All pedestrian and vehicular traffic shall enter or leave the
company's premises by the gates from time to time designated for
these purposes and shall conform with all instructions of the oflicials
of the company and traffic notices posted on the company's premises.
19 of 1949. 9 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. By-laws. 9 of 1950, schedule. Offences and penalties. Saving. By-laws-G.N.A. 150/49. Vessels to shift berth on request. Typhoon signal. Trespassers. Removal of goods, etc., from company's premises. Nuisances. Unauthorized vessels not to make fast. Boar steps. Smoking. Cranes, gear, etc. Entry and exit gates.

19 of 1949. 9 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. By-laws. 9 of 1950, schedule. Offences and penalties. Saving. By-laws-G.N.A. 150/49. Vessels to shift berth on request. Typhoon signal. Trespassers. Removal of goods, etc., from company's premises. Nuisances. Unauthorized vessels not to make fast. Boar steps. Smoking. Cranes, gear, etc. Entry and exit gates.

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NEDERLANDSCHE-INDISCHE HANDELSBANK ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 302.

NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE HANDLESBANK.

To give to the Nederlundsch-Indiche Handelsbank certain
facilities for carrying on its business in the Colony.

[21St June, 1907.]

WHEREAS a company has been incorporated in the Nether-
lands for the transaction of trading, banking and
financial business under the name of the Nederlandsch-
Indische Handelsbank under Royal Decrees of the late
King of the Netherlands whereby the liability of the
shareholders is limited to the amount of their shares
respectively: AND WHEREAS an agency of the said com-
pany has been established in this Colony: AND WHEREAS
it appears that the said company has in accordance
with the law of the Netherlands no common seal
and is therefore unable to exercise divers of the powers
which corporations having common seals can and may
exercise : AND WHEREAS it is expedient to enable the said
company to carry on its business in this Colony in like
manner as though it had been incorporated under the
law of this Colony:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Nederlandsch-
Indische Flandelsbank Ordinance.

2. The said company shall be capable in law to take.
hold and dispose of property, movable or immovable, within
the Colony for the purpose of its business.

3. (1) The said company may sue and be sued and
take all legal proceedings in the courts of the Colony by
the name of the Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank.

(2) All writs of summons, notices and legal process
may be served on the said company by being left at the
office in Hong Kong hereinafter mentioned or at any other
office in the Colony where the business of the said company
shall be carried on.

4. (1) All conveyances, powers of attorney, deeds and
other instruments of whatsoever nature, which if the said





company were an English corporation would require to be
scaled with the common seal of the said corporation, shall
be valid and effectual for all purposes if the same are
executed and signed in the name or on behalf of the said
company under the hand and scat of the manager of the
said company's agency in Hong Kong.

(2) Nothing in this section shall render invalid any
other mode of execution which may be prescribed by the
statutes of the said company and which would be valid
by the law of the Colony had this Ordinance not been
passed.

5. The manager of the agency in Hong Kong of the
said company shall have an office in Hong Kong for the
transaction of the business of the company, on the outside
of which shall be kept painted and affixed in a conspicuous
position in letters easily legible the name of the said
company.

6. (1) Such manager shall cause a memorial in the
form and to the effect set forth in the First Schedule, or as
near thereto as the circumstances of the case will admit,
verified by a statutory declaration in writing, to be filed in
the office of the Registrar of Companies.

(2) Such mernorial shall, prior to being filed, be signed
by the said manager and shall be accompanied by or have
annexed thereto or indorsed thereon copies of the decrees,
notarial acts, articles and other instruments under which
the company is established, and copies of the various rules
under which the business of the company is conducted, and
also translations in the English language of such copies,
such translations being verified by statutory declaration or
otherwise to the satisfaction of such Registrar.

7. No memorial shall be filed unless the authority of
the manager by whom it is signed and the copies of the
decrees, acts, deeds and other docurnents accompanying the
memorial shall he authenticated either by the signature and
seal of office of one of the Ministers of the Government of
the Netherlands at the Hague, such signature and seal being
verified by a British ambassador or consular officer, or unless





the same shall be authenticated by the signature and seal
of one of the Secretaries of the Government of Netherlands
India at Batavia and cotintersigned by the British consul
at Batavia.

8. Whenever any new or other manager of the agency
in Hong Kong of the said company shall be appohited or
any change in or addition to any of the facts stated in any
memorial which may have been filed shall take place, a like
memorial in the form and to the effect set forth in the
Second Schedule, verified as aforesaid, shall, as soon as
may be after such appointment, change or additiom shall
have been made, be filed as aforesaid, specifying the name
and description of such new or other manager and contain-
ing a statement of the change or addition which may, have
taken place in the facts aforesaid.

9. (1) Until such memorial as first hereinbefore
mentioned shall have been filed, the provisions of section
4 shall not come into operation.

(2) Until the memorial by this Ordinance required to
be verified and filed in the event of the appointment of a
new manager shall have been duly verified and filed, the
person whose name shall appear in the last mernorial which
shall have been duly filed in the office of the Registrar of
Companies as aforesaid shall for the purposes of this
Ordinance be deemed to be the manager of the agency in
Hong Kong of the said company as if no new manager had
been appointed.

10. An examined copy of every memorial filed pur-
suant to this Ordinance certified to be a true copy under
the hand of the Registrar of Companies shall be received
in evidence as proof of the contents of such memorial, and
proof shall not be required that the person by whom the
memorial purports to be veriCied was at the time of such
vertification manager of the agency in Hong Kong of the
said company.





FIRST SCHEDULE. [s. 6.]

Memorial made the day of ' 19
by the manager of the agency at Hong Kong of the Nederlandsch-
Indische Handels`bank pursuant to Chapter 302 of the Revised Edition,
intituled 'An Ordinance for giving to the Netherlandsch-Indische
Handelsbank certain facilities for carrying on its business in the
Colony', setting forth the particulars required by section 6 of the
Ordinance.
Situation of office of manager.
Entire nominal capital of the company.
Paid up capital.
Number of shares.
Amount of each share.
Amount of capital (if any) set aside for operations in the
Colony.
manager of the agency in Hong Kong
of the Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank, do solemnly and sincerely
declare that the above-written memorial is true in all respects: And
I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same
to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory
Declarations Act, 1835.

SECOND SCHEDULE. [s. S.]

Memorial made the day of 19
by the manager of the agency at Hong Kong of the Nederlandsch-
Indische Handelsbank pursuant to Chapter 302 of the Revised Edition,
intituled 'An Ordinance for giving to the Nederlandsch-Indische
Handelsbank certain facilities for carrying on its business in the
Colony', setting forth the particulars of change or changes as
required by section 8 of the Ordinance.
Name and description of new manager.
Situation of office of new manager.
Changes (if any) in such situation.
Entire nominal capital of the company.
Paid up capital of the company.
Number of shares.
Amount of each share.
Amount of capital (if any) set aside for operations in the
Colony.
newly appointed manager of the agency
in Hong Kong of the Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank, do
'solemnly and sincerely declare that the above-written memorial is
true in all respects: And I make this solemn declaration con-
scientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the
provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.
Originally 9 of 1907. Fraser 9 of 1907. Short title. Company may hold and dispose of property. Company may sue and be sued under its name. Deeds signed by manager to be as valid as if under common seal of company. Manager to have an office in Hong Kong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. First Schedule. Authority of manager to be authenticated. [s. 7 cont.] Memorial of change of manager or in facts to be filed. Second Schedule. Section 4 not to come into operation until memorial filed. Examined copy of memorial to be proof. (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.) (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.)

Originally 9 of 1907. Fraser 9 of 1907. Short title. Company may hold and dispose of property. Company may sue and be sued under its name. Deeds signed by manager to be as valid as if under common seal of company. Manager to have an office in Hong Kong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. First Schedule. Authority of manager to be authenticated. [s. 7 cont.] Memorial of change of manager or in facts to be filed. Second Schedule. Section 4 not to come into operation until memorial filed. Examined copy of memorial to be proof. (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.) (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.)

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NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-MAATSHAPPIJ ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 301.

NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIL

To give to the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschctppli certain
facilities for carrying on its business in the Colony.

[26th july, 1907.]

WHEREAS a company has been incorporated in the Nether-
lands for the transaction of trading, banking and financial
business under the name of the Nederlandsche Handel-
Maatschappij under Royal Decrees of the late King of
the Netherlands whereby the liability of the shareholders
is limited to the amount of their shares respectively :
AND WHEREAS an agency of the said company has been
established in this Colony : AND WHEREAS it appears that
the said company has in accordance with the law of the
Netherlands no common seal and is therefore unable
to exercise divers of the powers which corporations hav-
ing common seals can and may exercise : AND WHEREAS
it is expedient to enable the said company to carry on
its business in this Colony in like manner as though it
had been incorporated under the law of this Colony :

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Netherlandsclic
Handel-Maatschappij Ordinance.

2. The said company shall be capable in law to take,
hold and dispose of property, movable or immovable, withill
the. Colony for the purpose of its business.

3. (1) The said company may site and be sued and
take all legal proceedings in the courts of the Colony by, the
name of the Nederlavdsche Handel-Maatschppij.

(2) All writs of summons, notices and legal process may
be served on the said company by being left at the office in
Hong Kong hereinafter mentioned or at any other office in
the Colony where the business of the said company shall be
carried on.

4. (1) All conveyances, powers of attorney, deeds and
other instruments of whatsoever nature, which if the said
company were an English corporation would require to be





sealed with the common seal of the said corporation, shall be
valid and effectual for all purposes if the same be executed
and signed in the name or on behalf of the said company
under the hand and seal of the manager of the said com-
pany's agency in Hong Kong.

(2) Nothing in this section shall render invalid any
other mode of execution which may be prescribed by the
statutes of the said company and which would be valid by
the law of the Colony had this Ordinance not been passed.

5. The manager of the agency in Hong Kong of the
said company shall have an office in Hong Kong for the
transaction of the business of the company, on the outside
of which shall be kept painted and affixed in a conspicuous
position in letters easily legible the name of the said
company.

6. (1) Such manager shall cause a memorial in the
form and to the effect set forth in the First Schedule, or as
near thereto as the circumstances of the case will admit,
verified by a statutory declaration in writing, to be filed in
the office of the Registrar of Companies.

(2) Such memorial shall, prior to being filed, be signed
by the said manager and shall be accompanied by or have
annexed thereto or indorsed thereon copies of the decrees,
notarial acts, articles and other instruments under which the
company is established, and copies of the various rules under
which the business of the company is conducted, and also
translations into the English language of such copies, such
translations being verified by statutory declaration or other-
wise to the satisfaction of such Registrar.

7. No memorial shall be filed unless the authority of
the manager by whom it is signed and the copies of the
decrees, acts, deeds and other documents accompanying the
memorial shall be authenticated either by the signature and
seal of office of one of the Ministers of the Government of
the Netherlands at the Hague, such signature and seal being
verified by a British ambassador or consular officer, or unless
the same shall be authenticated by the signature and seal of
one of the Secretaries of the Government of Netherlands India
at Batavia and countersigned by the British consul at
Batavia.





8. Whenever any new or other manager of the agency
in Hong Kong of the said company shall be appointed or
any change in or addition to any of the facts stated in any
memorial which may have been filed shall take place, a like
memorial in the form and to the effect set forth in the Second
Schedule, verified as aforesaid, shall, as soon as may be
after such appointment, change or addition shall have been
made, be filed as aforesaid, specifying the name and descrip-
tion of such new or other manager and containing a state-
ment of the change or addition which may have taken place
in the facts aforesaid.

9. (1) Until such memorial as first hereinbefore
mentioned shall have been filed, the provisions of section 4
shall not come into operation.

(2) Until the memorial by this Ordinance required to
be verified and filed in the event of the appointment of a new
manager shall have been duly verified and filed, the person
whose name shall appear in the last memorial which shall
have been duly filed in the office of the Registrar of Com-
parties as aforesaid shall for the purposes of this Ordinance
be deemed to be the manager of the agency in Hong Kong
of the said company as if no new manager had been
appointed.

10. An examined copy of every memorial filed pursuant
to this Ordinance certified to be a true copy under the hand
of the Registrar of Companies shall be received in evidence
as proof of the contents of such memorial, and proof shall
not be required that the person by whom the memorial
purports to be verified was at the time of such verification
manager of the agency in Hong Kong of the said company.

FIRST SCHEDULE. [s. 6.]

Memorial made the day of ' 19
by the manager of the agency at Hong Kong of the Nederlandsche
Handel-Maatschappij pursuant to Chapter 301 of the Revised Edition,
intituled 'An Ordinance for giving to the Nederlandsche Handel-
Maatschappij certain facilities for carrying on its business in the
Colony', setting forth the particulars required by section 6 of the
Ordinance.





Situation of office of manager.
Entire nominal capital of the company.
Paid up capital.
Number of shares.
Amount of each share.
Amount of capital (if any) set aside for operations in the
Colony.
I, manager of the agency in Hong Kong
of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij, do solemnly and sincerely
declare that the above-written memorial is true in all respects: And
I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to
be true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declarations
Act, 1835.

SECOND SCHEDULE. [s. S.]

Memorial made the day of , 19
by the manager of the agency at Hong Kong of the Nederlandsche
Handel-Maatschappij pursuant to Chapter 301 of the Revised Edition,
intituled 'An Ordinance for giving to the Nederlandsche Handel-
Maatschappij certain facilities for carrying on its business in the
Colony', setting forth the particulars of change or changes as
required by section 8 of the Ordinance.
Name and description of new manager.
Situation of office of new manager.
Changes (if any). in such situation.
Entire nominal capital of the company.
Paid up capital of the company.
Number of shares.
Amount of each share.
Amount of capital (if any) set aside for operations in the
Colony.
newly appointed manager of the agency
in Hong Kong of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij do
solemnly and sincerely declare that the above-written memorial is
true in all respects: And I make this solemn declaration con-
scientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the
provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.
Originally 10 of 1907. Fraser 10 of 1907. Short title. Company may hold and dispose of property. Company may sue and be sued under its name. Deeds signed by manager to be as valid as if under common seal of company. Manager to have an office in Hong Kong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. First Schedule. Authority of manager to be authenticated. Memorial of change of manager or in facts to be filed. Second Schedule. Section 4 not to come into operation until memorial filed. Examined copy of memorial to be proof. (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.) (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.)

Originally 10 of 1907. Fraser 10 of 1907. Short title. Company may hold and dispose of property. Company may sue and be sued under its name. Deeds signed by manager to be as valid as if under common seal of company. Manager to have an office in Hong Kong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. First Schedule. Authority of manager to be authenticated. Memorial of change of manager or in facts to be filed. Second Schedule. Section 4 not to come into operation until memorial filed. Examined copy of memorial to be proof. (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.) (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.)

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MORRISON SCHOLARSHIPS FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 300.

MORRISON SCHOLARSHIPS FUND
INCORPORATION.
To incorporote a body of trustees capable of holding
Properly and empowered to administer a trust fund
known as the iWorrison Scholarships Trust Fund for
the purpose of providing scholarships at Queen's
College in this Colony.

[9th November, 1934.]

WHEREAS at a meeting of a society known as the Morrison
Education Society on the 18th day of March, 1873, it
was agreed, and at a further meeting of the said Society
held on the 24th day of April, 1873, it was confirmed,
that three thousand dollars of the monies of the Society
'should be funded for the purpose of endowing a
scholarship, to be known as the Morrison Scholarship,
at the Central School upon conditions to be drawn up
by the Headmaster of the Central School, the Minister
for the time being of the Union Church and the senior
resident Missionary of the London Missionary Society,
and that, in the event of discontinuance of the Central
School or other circumstances inaking it advisable, the
disposition of the principal should be with the three
gentlemen above named- :
AND WHEREAS the said fund has now appreciated through
investments and further contributions to a capital value
of over fifty thousand dollars, and provides an income
of nearly two thousand dollars per annuin out of which
five Morrison Scholarships are endowed and maintained
at Queen's College in this Colony :
AND WHEREAS doubts have arisen as to the legal position
of the persons now administering the said fund as
trustees thereof, and it is deemed expedient that the
fund should be vested in an incorporated body which
may administer the same for the purpose of endowing
and maintaining such scholarships

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Morrison
Scholarships Fund Incorporation Ordinance.





2. (1) There shall be a body of trustees which,
subject to the other provisions of this Ordinance, shall
consist of-
(a) the Headmaster of Queen's College, Hong Kong;
(b)the Senior Missionary in Hong Eong of the
London Missionary Society;
(c) the minister of the Union Church, Hong Kong,
and their successors in office for the time being.

(2) In the event of the absence from the Colony of
any trustee the person temporarily fulfilling his duties shall
aet as a trustee during his absence.

(3) No act or decision of the trustees shall be valid
unless approved by two trustees.

(4) If any act be done or discretion be exercised by
the majority of the trustees, or if any instrument be
executed in pursuance thereof, no such act, discretion or
instrument shall be questioned on the ground that the other
trustee did not concur or Join therein, or objected thereto.

3. (1) Any change in the persons constituting the
trustees under subsection (I) Of section 2 shall be notified
to the Colonial Secretary and published by him in the
Gazette.

(2) No such change shall be deemed to have been made
unless it shall have been so published in the Gazette.

(3) The production of a copy of the Gazette containing
any such notification shall be Prima facie evidence as to the
constitution of the trustees.

(4) The trustees shall when required by the Covernor
furnish to him satisfactory proof of the succession of any
new trustee.

4. The trustees shall be a body corporate, hereinafter
called the corporation, under the name of 'The Trustees of
the Morrison Scholarships Fund' and by that name shall
have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be,
sued in all courts and shall and may have and use a common
seal and may break, change, alter and make anew the said
seal.

5. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) the
corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,





purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings,
messuages or tenements of what nature and kind soever and
wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upon mort-
gage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or
upon bankers' fixed deposits, or upon the mortgages,
debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any govern-
ment, municipality, corporation or company, and also to
purchase, acquire, and possess goods and chattels of what
nature or kind soever, for the purpose of endowing and main-
taining scholarships, to be known as Yforrison Scholarships,
in Queen's College, Hong Kong.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (i) the
corporation shall not acquire by lease or purchase any
immovable property in the Colony unless it shall previously
have obtained the special consent of the Governor in Council
in each case.

(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed
or writing under their common seal to grant, sell, convey,
assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, reconvey
reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of or deal with any
lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, goods and chattels
or other property which are for the time being vested in
belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to the
trustees may seem fit: Provided that nothing in this section
shall be construed so as to authorize any breach of trust on
the part of the trustees.

(4) All deeds and other documents requiring the seal of
the corporation shall be sealed with such seal in the presence
of the Headmaster of Queen's College and shall be signed
by him.

6. All those stocks or shares of Hong Kong companies
which are at present registered in the narne of the trustees
of the Morrison Scholarship Fund or other like name, and all
moneys deposited in any bank in the name of the said fund,
are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation.

7. (1) The corporation may from time to time with
the approval of the Governor in Council frarne, and from
time to time with the approval of the Governor in Council
alter, by-laws for its internal management and control, and
all such by-laws when so approved as aforesaid and agreed





upon by the corporation shall be binding on every member
thereof.

(2) Amendments to the by-laws shall be made by the
trustees in general meeting and at least fourteen clear days
notice in writing of any resolution to effect any such amond-
rnent shall be given to each of the trustees.

(3) A copy of the by-laws certified as correct by two
of the trustees and sealed with the common seal or the
corporation shall be deposited and filed with the Registrar
of Companies, and wheriever such by-laws are altered a copy
thereof as altered, certified as aforesaid, shall also be forth-
with deposited and filed with the said Registrar.

(4) The first by-laws shall be those contained in the
Schedule.

8. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deenied
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.

SCHEDULE.

MORRISON SCHOLARSHIPS FUND BY-LAWS.
(Cap. 300, section 7.)
(Ordinance No. 39 of 1934.)

[9th November, 1934.]

Constitution.
1. The Fund shall be known as 'The Morrison Scholarships
Fund'.
2. The Fund shall consist of the fund in the hands of the
trustees at the commencement of this Ordinance, and the property,
moneys and investments for the time being and from time to time
representing the same, including any contributions, additions and
accumulations thereto as may be made or accrue.

Object.
3. The object of the Fund is to provide and endow scholarships
for boys at Queen's College, Hong Kong, without distinction of class
or nationality.





Government.
4. The government of the Fund shall be in the hands of the
trustees, of whom the Headmaster of Queen's College for the time
being shall be the chairman.
5. The chairman shall at the same time discharge the duties of
honorary secretary and honorary treasurer, and shall collect all sums
due to the corporation and keep an accurate account of all moneys
received and disbursed to be presented at each meeting.

6. The trustees shall also appoint one or more auditors, not
necessarily auditors by profession, who shall not be trustees, to audit
the accounts and present a statement at the annual meeting.

Funds.
7. All contributions to the Fund shall be paid to the honorary
treasurer and shall by him be placed to the credit of the corporation
in a local bank or invested as the trustees may deem advisable.

8. No payment on account of the corporation shall be made
without the order of the trustees, payment on petty cash account
excepted, for which purpose the trustees may place such sum as
they think fit at the disposal of the honorary treasurer, who shall
furnish a correct account of all such payments at each meeting of
the trustees. All cheques shall be signed by one trustee and the
honorary treasurer.

Scholarships.
9. The number of scholarships granted and the value of each,
and the conditions and period on and for which any such scholarship
is granted or may be renewed, shall be in the entire discretion of the
trustees.

Meetings.
10. The annual meeting of the trustees shall be held not later
than the month of May in every year, when the report of the trusteel
and the audited statement of accounts made up to the 31st day of
December of the previous year shall be presented and passed, and
any business of the previous year discussed. Emergency meetings
may be called at any time by the chairman or on the request of any
trustee.
11. At all meetings two trustees shall form a quorum.
39 of 1934. 37 of 1950. Short title. The trustees and their proceedings and acts. Notification of change in trustees. 37 of 1950, Schedule. Incorporation and general powers of the trustees. Power to acquire property. Power to dispose of property. Use of seal. Vesting of certain property. By-laws. [s. 7 cont.] Schedule. Saving. By-laws-Ord. 39/34, Schedule.

39 of 1934. 37 of 1950. Short title. The trustees and their proceedings and acts. Notification of change in trustees. 37 of 1950, Schedule. Incorporation and general powers of the trustees. Power to acquire property. Power to dispose of property. Use of seal. Vesting of certain property. By-laws. [s. 7 cont.] Schedule. Saving. By-laws-Ord. 39/34, Schedule.

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MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 299.

MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION.

For the incorporation of the Procureur General in this Colony
of the Society of the Missions Etrangeres.

[28th March, 1890.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Missions
Etrangeres Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procureur G6n6ral in this Colony of the
Society of the Missions Etrangeres having placed in the hands
of the Governor satisfactory proof of appointment shall be a
body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall
have the name of 'The Procureur General in Hong Kong of
the Missions Etrangeres,' and by that name shall have per-
petual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all
courts in this Colony, and shall and may have and use a
common seal, and the said seal may break, change, alter, and
make anew as to the said corporation may seem fit; and the
said corporation shall have full power to acquire, accept
leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings,
messuages, or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situate in this Colony, and also to invest moneys
on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tene-
ments in this Colony, or on the inortgages, debentures,
stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any corporation or
company carrying on business or having an office in this
Colony, and also to purchase and acquire all manner of
goods and chattels whatsoever; and the said corporation is
hereby further empowered by deed under its seal, to grant,
sell, convey, assign, surrender, and yield up, mortgage,
demise, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any
lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages,
debentures, stocks, funds, and securities, goods and chattels,
vested in the said corporation on such terms as to the said
corporation may seem fit : Provided that due notice of
appointment as such Procureur General and of the proof
thereof having been placed in the hands of the Governor,
shall be given in the Gazette.

3. All deeds, documents, and other instruments requir-
ing the seal of the said corporation shall be so sealed in the
presence of the said Procureur General or his attorney, and





shall also be signed by him or his said attorney, and such
signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing
of such deeds, documents, and other instruments. [4

4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
[5
Originally 3 of 1890. Fraser 1 of 1890. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procureur General in the colony of Society of Missions Etrangeres. Use of seal. [s. 3 cont.] Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

Originally 3 of 1890. Fraser 1 of 1890. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procureur General in the colony of Society of Missions Etrangeres. Use of seal. [s. 3 cont.] Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

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MATILDA AND WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 298.

MATILDA AND WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

To provide for the holding of the properly and funds now
held by or vested in the trustees for the time being of
the will and codicil of Granville Sharp deceased and the
funds of the trustees of the 1Var Memorial Nursing
Home and for the administration of the said properly
and funds for maintaining endowing supporting carry-
ing on or otherwise promoting subject to the provisions
of this Ordinance a hospital lit subs titv tion for the
Matilda Hospital and the War Memorial Nursing Hoine
as heretofore constituted and to be called the Matilda and
War Mentorial Hospital.

[7th October, 1949.]

WHEREAS in pursuance of the Will and Codicil of
Granville Sharp, deceased, hereinafter referred to as the
testator, who died on the 16th day of August, 1899, and of
a scheme approved by the Supreme Court (Action No. 46
Of 1904) and of an order of the said court made on the 7th day,
of March, 1923, the residue of the estate of the testator Was
applied to the erection and maintenance of a hospital called
the Matilda Hospital for British Arnerican and European
patients as provided in the said scheme;

AND WHEREAS by the War Memorial Nursing Home
'Trustees Ordinance, 1923, the trustees of the War Memorial
Nursing Home and their successors in office, hereirtafter
called the nursing home trustees, were incorporated as a
body corporate and the property of the War Memorial
Nursing Home was vested in the said trustees to be
administered in accordance with the constitution provided by,
the said Ordinance for the institution and maintenance of
the Hong Kong War Memorial Nursing Home;
AND WHEREAS in order to ensure the continuance of the
objects for which the said Matilda Hospital was instituted
and to make provision for a nursing home or hospital to
fulfil the purpose for which the War Memorial Nursing
Home was instituted it is deemed expedient that all lands
buildings messuages or tenements funds and endowments
held by the trustees of the will and codicil of the testator
and all the funds and endowments held by the nursing home




trustees should be vested in one incorporated body and that
the same may be administered for the purposes and subject
to the provisions of an Ordinance;

1. This Ordinance mav be cited as the Matilda and
War Memorial Hospital Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'board of governors' or 'board' means the board of
governors referred to in section 4 and specified in
article 7 of the constitution ;
constitution' means the articles of constitution referred to
in section 4 and specified in the Schedule ;
corporation' rneans the Matilda and War Memorial
Hospital named and incorporated in accordance. with the
provisions of section 3 ;
custodian trustee' means the Hongkong and Shanghai
Bank, Hong Kong (Trustee) Limited appointed as
custodian trustee in accordance with the provisions of
section io;
nursing home trustees' means the trustees appointed in
accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the War
Memorial Trustees Ordinance, 1923;
'trustees' means the trustees of the will and codicil of
Granville Sharp, deceased.

3. A hospital to be named the Matilda and War
lklemorial Hospital is hereby incorporated as a body corporate
and as the Matilda and War Memorial Hospital shall have
perpetual succession and shall and may sue or be sued in
all courts and shall have and rnav use a common seal and
may break change alter and make use the said seal.

4. The articles of constitution specified in the Schedule
shall be binding upon the corporation and a board of
governors shall be appointed in accordance with the constitu-
tion the members of which shall be deemed to be the members.
of the corporation after notice of their appointment has been
filed with the Registrar of Companies.

5. (1) The corporation shall have power to direct the
custodian trustee to do any of the following acts namely to
acquire, aceept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any





lands, buildings, messuages or tenements. of what nature or
kind soever and wheresoever situated and also to invest
moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages
or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, shares or securities of any government municipality
corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and
possess goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power to direct
the custodian trustee to do any of the following acts namely
to borrow or raise money and to give securities for the re-
payment thereof, to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, dernise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares, or securities, which are for the time being vested in
the custodian trustee for the corporation upon such terms as
to the corporation may seem fit : Provided that-
(a)the powers of direction conferred by this section
shall only be exercised for the purpose of endowing,
supporting, maintaining, carrying on or otherwise,
promotincy the work of the corporation ; and
(b)the custodian trustee may accept the certificite of
the corporation in connexion with any matters
mentioned herein that the direction does not con-
travene the requirement of paragraph (a) and the
custodian trustee shall not be under any respon-
sibility to investigate the purpose of any such
direction.

6. The custodian trustee shall be deemed to have all
powers required to give effect to any direction made by the
corporation under section 5 as though the custodian trustee
were the absolute owner of the funds vested in the cutodian
trustee : Provided that all deeds and other instruments
requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the
presence of two members of the board of governors and shall
be signed by two members of the board of governors.

7. All matters of internal management of the corpora-
tion including any amendment of the constitution shall be
settled and carried out in accordance with the constitution.





8. (1) The property and assets of whatsoever descrip-
tion (excluding only furniture, fittings, fixtures, hospital
equipment and chattels of domestic use) hitherto vested in
the nursing home trustees are hereby vested in the custodian
trustee upon the trusts declared in section 10.
(2) The furniture, fittings, fixtures, hospital equipment
and chattels of domestic use hitherto belonging to the nursing
home trustees are hereby vested in the corporation.

9. (1) The trustees are hereby discharged from the
trusts of the will and codicil of Granville Sharp, deceased,
and the scheme for the administration thereof approved by
the Supreme Court in Action No. 46 of 1904 and the property
and assets of whatsoever description (excepting only furni-
ture, fittings, fixtures, hospital equipment and chattels of
domestic use) belonging to the trustees are hereby vested in
the custodian trustee upon the trusts declared in section 10.
(2) The furniture, fittings, fixtures, hospital equipment
and chattels of domestic use belonging to the trustees are
hereby vested in the corporation.

10. The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong
(Trustee) Limited is hereby appointed custodian trustee for
the corporation and property hereinbefore vested in the
custodian trustee shall forthwith be transferred into the name
of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong
(Trustee) Limited to be held by them upon the trusts declared
in subsection (2) of section 4 of the Public Trustee Act, 1906
but as though the board of governors were the managing
trustees mentioned therein : Provided that the reference
therein to the Trustee Act, 1893, shall be construed to refer
to the Trustee Ordinance, and the appointment of the cus-
todian trustee shall be upon the usual terms and conditions
for the time being in force including those governing the
right to remuneration in accordance with the published
scale of fees or such other scale as may be arranged
between the custodian trustee and the corporation.

11. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them. [12





SCHEDULE. [ss. 2, 4.]

ARTICLES OF CONSTITUTION.
1. These articles shall be cited as the articles of constitution
of the Matilda and War Memorial Hospital.

2. In these articles-
'Hospital' means the Matilda and War Memorial Hospital;
'Matilda Hospital' means the hospital erected and maintained in
pursuance of the will and codicil of Granville Sharp, deceased,
and a scheme approved by the Supreme Court (Action No. 46 of
1904) and by an order of the said court made on the 7th day of
March, 1923;
'Ordinance' means the Matilda and War Memorial Hospital
Ordinance;
'War Memorial Hospital' means the hospital specified in the War
Memorial Nursing Home Trustees Ordinance, 1923.

3. The Hospital shall be called the Matilda and War Memorial
Hospital.

4. The objects of the Hospital shall be-
(a)to acquire and take over and carry on the hospital now
known as the Matilda Hospital and to carry on and
maintain the objects for which the Matilda Hospital was
instituted, namely-
(i) to establish a hospital to the Glory of God and for the
good of man and in memory of Matilda Lincolne Sharp,
resident of this Colony from 1858 to 1893;
(ii) to provide gratuitous medical relief to all British,
American and European patients who are poor, helpless or
forsaken;
(iii) to establish the Hospital as a religious and evangelistic
institution;
(b)to carry on and maintain the objects for which the War
Memorial Nursing Home was instituted, namely to institute
as part of the Hong Kong War Memorial Scheme a home
to be carried on in the interests of the community and
without any view to profit it being particularly the intention
that residents in Hong Kong who saw active service in the
Great War of 1914-18 should have, where their circumstances
in the opinion of the committee of management demand it,
a preference and be accorded free treatment;
(c)to provide medical and surgical treatment and aid or any
other assistance and all remedies and requisites in case of
accident or illness in the Colony either gratuitously or in
return for such payment as may from time to time be
determined by the board of governors and to provide
facilities for training in medicine, surgery, nursing and
hospital work and the investigation of diseases;
(d)to accept subscriptions donations and bequests for all or
any of the purposes aforesaid or for other purposes that
can in the opinion of the Board of Governors be conveniently
carried into effect by the Hospital and without derogation
from the generality of the foregoing to accept a donation
of 50,000 sterling from Mr. Haakon J. Wallem in memory
of Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn and apply the same with any
other funds which may be donated for the same or similar
purposes towards providing accommodation for the treatment
and care of patients and towards the provision of facilities
for proper medical attendance, nursing and all things and
appliances of a medical, surgical, dietetic or therapeutic
character on such terms as the Board of Governors may in
their absolute discretion think fit;





e)generally to do all things necessary or expedient for the
proper and effective carrying out of any of the objects
aforesaid.

5. The supreme control government and management of all the
property and affairs of the Hospital shall be vested in the board of
governors.

6. The board of governors may exercise all such powers and
do all such acts and things as the corporation may do but without
prejudice to the general powers conferred upon them it is hereby
expressly declared that they shall have the following powers, that
is to say, power-
(a)to appoint and at their discretion dismiss or suspend such
medical superintendents matrons secretaries nursing sisters
nurses housekeepers or other officers and servants whether
appointed for permanent temporary or special services as
they may from time to time think fit and to determine their
powers and duties and fix their salary or remuneration;
(b)to appoint any person or persons (whether incorporated or
not) to accept and hold in trust for the corporation any
property belonging to the corporation or in which it is
interested or for any other purpose and to execute and do
all such deeds and things as may be requisite in relation
to any such trust and to provide for the remuneration of the
trustee or trustees;
(c)to institute conduct defend compound or abandon any legal
proceedings by or against the corporation or its officers or
otherwise concerning the affairs of the corporation and also
to compound or allow for payment or satisfaction of any
debts due or any claims or payments by or against the
corporation;
(d)to refer any claims or demands by or against the
corporation to arbitration and observe and perform the
awards;
(e)to make and give receipts releases and other discharges for
money payable to the corporation and for the claims and
demands of the corporation;
(f) to determine who shall be entitled to sign on the corporation's
behalf bills notes receipts acceptances endorsements cheques
releases contracts and documents;
(g)save as herein provided to make vary and repeal such
orders by-laws regulations and rules as the governors may
from time to time think fit in relation to the said Hospital
and its conduct and management and as to their own duties
and procedure and proceedings and in any affairs relating
to the said Hospital;
(h)to enter into all such negotiations and contracts and rescind
and vary all such contracts and execute and do all such
acts deeds and things in the name and on behalf of the
corporation as they may consider expedient for or in relation
to any of the matters aforesaid or otherwise for the purpose
of the corporation;
(i)at any time and from time to time by power of attorney
and under the corporation's seal or by an instrument in
writing delegate any of their powers and appoint any person
or persons to be the attorney or attorneys of the corporation
for such purposes and with such powers authorities and
discretions not exceeding those vested in the board of
governors and subject to such conditions as the governors
may from time to time think fit;
(j)to appoint any committee or committees consisting of such
member or members of their own body or otherwise as they
may think fit and to delegate any of their powers to such





committee or committees and to prescribe the functions
duties and powers thereof and to revoke any delegation and
to determine all or any such functions duties and powers;
and
(k)to exercise all or any of the foregoing powers so far as
they are applicable in relation to liabilities or obligations
whether legal or moral previously incurred by the trustees
or by the nursing borne trustees and to assume responsibility
for payments by way of gratuities pensions or otherwise for
services rendered to the Matilda Hospital or the War
Memorial Hospital and to charge such payments to the
funds of the corporation and generally at the discretion of
the board to sanction new payments in respect of services
previously rendered to the Matilda Hospital or the War
Memorial Hospital.
7. The board of governors shall consist of the following and
such others as may from time to time be appointed as their successors
in accordance with the provisions hereof, or except as herein
otherwise provided, in the case of the absence from time to time of
any members of the board, their respective substitute appointed with
the consent of the board-
(a)one member who and whose successors shall be appointed
by the Chief Manager for the time being of The Hongkong
and Shanghai Banking Corporation;
(b)one member who and whose successors shall be appointed
by the manager for the time being of The Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong Branch;
(c)one member who and whose successors shall be appointed
by the senior representative for the time being in Hong
Kong of Jardine, Matheson & Company Limited;
(d)one member who and whose successors shall be appointed
by the senior representative for the time being in Hong
Kong of John Swire & Sons Limited;
(e)the Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, as defined in the Bishop
of Victoria Incorporation Ordinance, or in his absence an
Anglican clergyman resident in the Colony to be appointed
by him;
(F) the Dean of St. John's Cathedral in Victoria, Hong Kong
for the time being or in his absence a member of the clergy
of St. John's Cathedral to be appointed by him;
(g)the minister of the Union Church or in his absence the
minister of the Methodist Church for the time being;
(h)one registered medical practitioner to be appointed by the
Hong Kong and China Branch of the British Medical
Association, Hong Kong;
(i) one member to be appointed by the Governor;
(j) two registered medical practitioners to be appointed by the
members of the board of governors;
(k)A representative of Haakon J. Wallem who shall be Reidar
Johannessen and in succession to him the senior member
for the time being in Hong Kong of Wallern and Company,
8. Save for the Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong and the Dean
of St. John's Cathedral or their respective nominees and the Minister
of the Union Church or of the Methodist Church and the
representative of Haakon J. Wallem the governors shall hold office
for a period of three years only but shall be eligible for re-
appointment.
9. The board of governors shall once in every month and may
as often as they think fit meet together for the dispatch of business
and any two governors may by notice in writing to the chairman
of the board of governors or to the duly appointed secretary or
secretaries require a meeting to be called at any time.





10. At any meeting of the board of governors a quorum shall
be constituted by five members of such board one of whom niust
be the chairman or deputy chairman.
11. The board of governors may appoint a treasurer of the
Hospital who shall be an honorary officer and may appoint from out-
side their own members a secretary or secretaries of the Hospital who
shall perform such duties and receive such remuneration as the
board from time to time may determine.
12. The board of governors shall cause minutes to be made in
books provided for the purpose-
(a) of all appointments of officers made by the board;
(b)of all the resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the
board and of the committees appointed by them.
13. The board of governors shall cause proper books or
accounts to be kept of all receipts and payments and the accounts
of the corporation shall be balanced and the financial state of the
corporation shall be ascertained under the superintendence of the
board once in every year as at the 31st day of December in every
year and the balance sheet showing the financial state of the
corporation as on that date in each year shall be prepared. The
profit and loss account and balance sheet shall be audited by an
auditor or by auditors appointed by the board and a copy of such
account and balance sheet fully audited shall within seven days
after the date of the certificate of the auditors thereon be sent by
the board to the Governor.
14. A meeting of the board of governors shall be held not later
than the 30th day of April in each year and shall be called the
annual general meeting and at such meeting a report of all the
affairs of the Hospital with a statement of property belonging to the
Hospital and a full account of all the receipts and expenditure of
the Hospital for the year and a balance sheet drawn up as at the
31st day of December preceding shall be presented and at such
meeting the auditors for the ensuing year shall be appointed. After
the conclusion of each annual general meeting a special meeting shall
be held at which the members appointed to replace the members
retiring from the board shall take office and the board shall elect
from among their own members a chairman and deputy chairman
and such other officers as they may consider necessary for the ensuing
year.
15. All moneys received for the purpose of being applied towards
acquiring additional land or erecting buildings for the Hospital
or for paying off any debt incurred for any such purpose shall on
being received be paid to the custodian trustee for and on behalf
of the board.
16. All moneys at any time standing to the credit of the general
account which shall not be required for current expenses shall be
paid to the board of governors and any investment from time to time
held by the custodian trustee may be sold and the proceeds thereof
invested in other investments as and when the board shall direct.
17. Cheques shall be drawn under the order of the board of
governors and shall be signed by such persons in such manner as
the board may from time to time determine.
18. The board of governors shall be at liberty to appoint for
the Hospital a resident medical officer or superintendent who shall
be a British subject and registered as a medical practitioner in the
Colony and he shall exercise such functions as the board directs and
receive such remuneration as the board may from time to time
determine. The board may appoint other medical or technical officers
for service in the Hospital either for whole or part time and either
in an honorary capacity or for such remuneration and on such terms





as the board may from time to time determine. The board shall
also be at liberty to appoint for the Hospital a matron who shall be
a British subject and have such qualifications as are necessary for
a registered nursing sister in the Colony and she shall have such
functions and receive such remuneration as the board may from
time to time determine. The board shall also appoint an adequate
number of nursing sisters who shall preferably but not necessarily
be British subjects and also of nurses who shall be duly qualified to
perform such duties as may be prescribed by the governors or by the
resident medical officer or superintendent of the Hospital or the
matron from time to time.
19. Any patient in the Hospital may be attended by his own
medical attendant on the condition that he be so attended at his
own expense and without any liability on the part of the corporation
or of the board of governors or any member of the staff of the
Hospital in respect of any act of commission or omission of the
medical attendant attending such patient.
20. Except as herein otherwise provided the board of governors
shall have the sole right of making rules for and deciding as to the
suitability of any applicant for admission to the Hospital and as to
the continuance in the Hospital of any patient who may have been
admitted and to decide and regulate the fees and charges to be paid
by them. In urgent cases the admission of patients shall be in the
discretion of the resident medical officer or superintendent, or, in his
absence, of the matron, who shall as far as possible in the
circumstances act in accordance with such rules as may be made
by the board.
21. No lunatic or person suffering from any disease which in
the opinion of the resident medical officer or superintendent, or, in
his absence, of the matron, may be a source of danger or otherwise
prejudicial to other patients, may (except in case of necessity) be
admitted or retained as a patient.

22. (1) The corporation shall delegate to a committee consisting
of the members of the board of governors appointed under the
provisions of Article 7 (a), (b), (e), (f) and (g) together with the
resident medical officer or superintendent or in his absence the
matron of the Hospital the following powers-
(a)to decide upon the admission of patients under the terms
and conditions formerly applicable to the Matilda Hospital
and to direct that payment in full or in part of the charges
and expenses incurred in respect of such patients in
accordance with the scale from time to time in force shall
be made out of the income from the invested funds of the
Hospital: Provided that the number of such patients
admitted shall not at any time exceed half of the number
of in-patients which can be accommodated in the Hospital;
(b)to arrange for religious ministration in accordance with the
intentions expressed in the will and codicil of Granville
Sharp, deceased.
(2) This Article shall apply to the Hospital as constituted
at the commencement of this Ordinance and to such additions thereto
as the Board may by resolution determine but shall not apply to
the South Wing of the Hospital to be erected in memory of Sir
Vandeleur M. Grayburn.
23. The board shall have power to repeal, replace or amend
these articles or any of them: Provided that-
(a)a resolution authorizing any such repeal, replacement or
amendment shall have been passed by the majority of not
less than three-fourths of the members of the board; and
(b)consent in writing thereto shall have been given by the
Governor.
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41 of 1949. (14 of 1923.) Short title. Interpretation. (14 of 1923.) Description and incorporation. Constitution and board of governors. Powers of corporation. [s. 5 cont.] Powers of custodian trustee. Internal management and amendment of constitution. Vesting of certain properties. Discharge of trustees. Vesting of certain properties. Appointment of custodian trustee. Declaration of trusts. (Cap. 29.) Saving. Citation. Interpretation. (Cap. 298.) (14 of 1923.) Title of Hospital. Objects of Hospital. Supreme control of Hospital. Powers of board of governors. [Sch. Cont.] Constitution of board of governors. (Cap. 267.) Board of governors. Tenure of office. Monthly meeting of board. Quorum. Appointment of treasurer and secretary. Minutes. Books, accounts and audit. Annual general meeting of board. Custody of moneys received. Investment of surplus moneys. Cheques. Appointment of medical and nursing staff. [Sch. Cont.] Private medical attendants Rules for admission to Hospital. Power to exclude certain patients. Conditions of admission to Hospital. Power of board to amend, etc. Constitution Procedure.

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MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 297.

MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND
INCORPORATION.

For the incorporation of the trustees of the Hong Kong
and Soutit China Masonic Benevolence Fund.

[2nd August, 1893.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the
Benevolence Fund Incorporation Ordinance.

2. (1) The trustees of the Hong Kong and South
China 1Masonic Benevolence Fund, who have been certified
as such on behalf of the corporation by a statutory declara-
tion made by the secretary and filed with the Registrar
of Companies, shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called
the corporation, and shall have the name of 'The Hong
Kong anal South China Masonic Benevolence Fund Cor-
poration, and by that name shall have perpetual succes-
sion, and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts,
and shall and may have and use a common seal.

(2) The said corporation shall have full power to
acquire, accept leases of, Purchase, take, hold, and enjoy
any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements of what
nature or kind soever, and wheresoever situate in this
Colony or elsewhere, and also to invest moneys on deposit
in any bank either in this Colony or elsewhere on such
terms as may seem expedient to it, or on mortgage of any
lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements in this Colony
or elsewhere, or on the mortgages or debentures of any
corporation or company carrying on business or constituted
for any purpose in this Colony or elsewhere.

(3) The said corporation is hereby further empowered
by deed under its seal, to grant, sell, convey, assign, sur-
render and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer,
or otherwise dispose of or deal with any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, or debentures vested in
the said corporation, on such terms as to the said corpora-
tion may seem fit.

3. All deeds and other instruments requiring execu-
tion by the said corporation shall be sealed with its seal
and signed in manner provided by its by-laws. [4





4. (1) The said corporation may adopt the existing
by-laws of the Hong Kong and South China Masonic
Benevolence Fund, so far as they are not inconsistent with
this Ordinance, and may (notwithstanding that such existing
by-laws provide that alterations therein can be proposed
only at the annual meeting therein mentioned) alter the
same, or may frame other by-laws for its internal manage-
ment and control.

(2) All such by-laws, when agreed upon by the said
corporation, shall be binding on every member thereof.

(3) A copy of the by-laws, and of any amendment
thereof, certified as correct by the secretary, shall be
deposited and filed with the Registrar of Companies. [5

5.Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs
or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under
them. [6

6. (1) There shall be payable by the said corpora-
tion to the Registrar of Companies a fee of three dollars
on the deposit and filing of each copy of the by-laws, and
a further fee of three dollars for the making and filing of
every such declaration as is mentioned in section 2.

(2) A fee of fifty cents shall be payable for every
search of the file. [7
Originally 11 of 1893. Fraser 7 of 1893. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of trustees of Hong Kong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund. Execution of deeds, etc. Adoption and making of by-laws, etc. Saving 37 of 1950, Schedule. Fees.

Originally 11 of 1893. Fraser 7 of 1893. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of trustees of Hong Kong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund. Execution of deeds, etc. Adoption and making of by-laws, etc. Saving 37 of 1950, Schedule. Fees.

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LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 296.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Senior Missionary
in this Colony of the London Missionary Society.

[31st October, 1891.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the London
Missionary Society Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The holder of the appointment of Senior Missionary
in Hong Kong of the London Missionary Society, having
placed in the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of
his appointment, shall be a body corporate, hereinafter
called the said corporation, and shall have the name of
'The Senior Missionary in Hong Kong of the Londo;
'Missionary Society', and by that name shall have per-
petual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all
courts, and shall and may have and use a common seal, and
the said seal may break, change, alter, and make anew
as to the said corporation may seem fit ; and the said
corporation shall have full power to acquire, accept leases
of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any lands, buildings,
messuages, or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situate in this Colony and also to invest monevs
on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or
tenements in this Colony or upon the mortgages or
debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any
corporation or company carrying on business or having an
office in this Colony and also to purchase and acquire all
manner of Goods and chattels whatsoever; and the said
corporation is hereby further empowered by deed under its
seal, to grant, self, convey, assign, surrender and yield up,
mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose,
of any lands, buildings, messuages and tenements, mort-
gages, debentures, stocks and securities, goods and chattels,
vested in the said corporation, on such terms as to the said
corporation may seem fit : Provided that due notice of
appointment as such Senior Missionary in Hong Kong
and of the proof thereof having been placed in the hands
of the Governor, shall be given in the Gazelle.





3. All deeds, documents, and other instruments
requiring the seal of the said corporation shall be sealed with
the seal of the said corporation in the presence of the said
Senior Missionary or his attorney duly authorized, and
shall also be signed by him or his attorney, and stich
signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of
the due scaling of such deeds, documents, and other
instruments. [4

4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs
or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Originally 19 of 1891. Fraser 6 of 1891. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in the Colony of the London Missionary Society. Use of seal of corporation. Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

Originally 19 of 1891. Fraser 6 of 1891. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in the Colony of the London Missionary Society. Use of seal of corporation. Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

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KOWLOON UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 295.

KOWLOON UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Kowloon Union
Church.

[15th September, 1939.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Kowloon Unioll
Church Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The trustees for the time being of the Kowloon
Union Church shall be a body corporate tinder the name of
the 'Tritstees of the Kowloon Union Church', hereinafter
referred to as the corporation.

3. The corporation by the name aforesaid shall have
perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in
all courts and shall and may have and use a common seal
and may from time to time break, change, alter and make
anew the said seal as to the corporation may seem fit.

4. The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept
leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, build-
ings, messuages or tenements of whatever nature or kind
soever and wheresoever situated also any endowments of
the Kowloon Union Church and the investments and
securities representing the same, and also to invest moneys
upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or
tenements or upon mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any Government, municipality, cor-
poration, company or person and also to purcliase acquire
and possess goods and chattels of whatever nature and kind
soever.

5. The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, lease, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, goods and chattels which are for the
time being vested in or belonging to the corporation upon
such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.





6. (1) When any persons are appointed trustees of
the Kowloon Union Church in accordance with the con-
stitution of the said Church Such persons shall within three
weeks after appointment or within such further time as may
be allowed by the Governor, furnish the Governor with
satisfactory, evidence of their appointment.
(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by any such person shall be conclusive
evidence Of Such appointment. [7

7.All deeds and other instruments requiring the scal
of the corporation shall be sealed with the common seal of
the corporation and signed by at least two of the
trustees. [8

8.The services at the Kowloon UniOn Church shall
be regulated and conducted in accordance with the constitu-
tion of the said Church and in such manner as to provide
that fellowship in public worship and in spiritual communion
and service which is the privilege and usance of all
Christians and to spread the knowledge of the purpose of
God in Jesus Christ and to unite in fellowship Christians of
various denominations and of different countries in the
worship of God in accordance with the principles and usages
of Protestant Evangelical Christians. [10

9. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them. [11

10. The expression 'Kowloon Union Church' shall
where the context so permits refer not only to the Church
buildings from time to time used as the Kowloon Union
Church but also to the members of the said Church duly
enrolled in accordance with the constitution of the said
Church. The expression 'the constitution of the said
church' means the code of rules and regulations for manage-
ment and conduct of the Kowloon Union Church adopted
by the members thereof at the date of this Ordinance or as
the same may be altered from time to time in the prescribed
manner. [12
36 of 1939. Short title. Incorporation. Succession and seal. Power to acquire property. Power to dispose of property. Appointment of new trustees. Use of seal. Services. Saving. Definitions.

36 of 1939. Short title. Incorporation. Succession and seal. Power to acquire property. Power to dispose of property. Appointment of new trustees. Use of seal. Services. Saving. Definitions.

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KOWLOON TONG CHURCH OF THE CHINESE CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 294.

KOWLOON TONG CHURCH OF THE CHINESE
CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Kowloon Tong
Tong Church of the Chinese Christian and.
Alliance.

[2nd June, 1950.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Kowloon Tong
Church of the Chinese Christian and Missionary Alliance
Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The trustees for the time being of the Kowloon
Tong Church of the Chinese Christlan and Missionary
Alliance shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called th c
corporation, and shall have the name 'The Trustees of 1he
Kowloon Tong Church of the Chinese Christian and
Missionary Alliance' and in that name shall have perpetual
succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts
in the Colony, and shall and may have and use a common
seal and may break change alter and make anew the said
seal.

3. (1) The corporation shall have power to acquire,
accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind
soever and wheresoever situated and also to invest moneys
upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or
tenements or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any Government, municipality,
corporation, company or person, and also to Purchase,
acquire and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of
what nature and kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,





shares or securities, or vessels or other goods and chattels,
which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the
corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may
seem fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever trans-
ferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall
in the event of the death of any of the trustees for the time
being or in the event of any trustee ceasing to hold office
as such trustee vest in the trustees for the time being duly
appointed.

5. The number of the trustees shall be not less than
three nor more than five.

6. The office of any trustee shall be automatically
vacated if such trustee shall die or shall resign his office
or if a resolution be passed at a meeting of members of the
said Kowloon Tong Church requiring the resignation of
such trustee or if his term of office shall come to an end.

7. New trustees shall be proposed for election by the
committee at a general meeting of the members of the said
Kowloon Tong Church and when elected shall (subject to
the provisions of the last preceding section) hold office for
the term of five years from the date of such election.
Trustees whose term of office has expired shall be eligible
for re-election.

8. (1) Any change in membership of the trustees shall
within three weeks of such change be notified by, the
publication of a notice in the Gazette.

(2) No such change shall be deerned to have been made
until a notification of such change has been published in
the Gazette.
(3) The production of a copy of the Gazette containing
nny such notification shall be prima facie evidence of a
change in membership of the trustees.

(4) The trustees shall when required by, the Governor
furnish to him satisfactory proof of the succession election
or appointment of any new trustee.





9. All deeds documents and other instruments requir-
ing the seal of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence
of three or more of the trustees and shall also be signed by
three of the trustees so present and such signing shall be
and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing thereof.

10. A committee of management, hereinafter called the
committee, shall be elected from among and at a meeting of
the members of the said Kowloon Tong Church to be held
within three months of the coming into force of this
Ordinance and those elected shall appoint a chairman, a
secretary and a treasurer from those elected. One third of
the committee shall refire annually but shall be eligible for
re-election.

11. The committee may appoint a clergyman or pastor
to perform and carry on divine worship and the services
usual in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches
and may also remove hirn and appoint a successor and all
matters connected with the religious services of the said
Kowloon Tong Church shall be under the immediate direc-
tion of the clergyman or pastor subject to the control of
the committee.

12. The temporal affairs of the said Kowloon Tong
Church shall be managed directed and governed by the
committee.

13. All books deeds papers and other documents
belonging to the sald Kowloon Tong Church shall be under
the care and custody of the chairman of the committee.

14. It shall, be lawful for the committee to make
regulations relating to the following matters-
(a)the number qualification and disqualification of
members of the committee;
(b)the holding of meetings of the committee and the
conduct of business thereat;
(c)the temporary appointment of a clergyman or pastor
during the absence from any cause of the holder of
that post;
(d)the election and tenure of office of an auditor and
the filling up of casual vacancies among the
committee;





(e)the appointment, tenure of office, salary and duties
of any organist or other officer or servant as the
committee may think necessary or expedient;
(f) the keeping of a register of members of the said
Kowloon Tong Church and of baptisms marriages
and burials;
(g)the holding of meetings of members, the right of
voting and the taking and recording of the votes
at such meetings and the conduct of business
thereat;
(h) the appropriation, allotment, arrangement and use
of the sittings in the said Kowloon Tong Church ;-
(i)the rents and subscriptions (if any) to be paid for
sittings in the said Kowloon Tong Church and the
mode of collection thereat, the fees to be taken for
baptisms, marriages and burials or other services
and the collection and disposition of money offer-
ings offertories and donations;
(j) the keeping of accounts of monies received and
expended by the committee;
(k)the erection and maintenance of monuments, tablets,
or other memorials in the said Kowloon Tong
Church or in the precincts thereof and the fees to
be taken therefor ; and
(l)all other matters relating to the affairs of the said
Kowloon Tong Church or of the committee other-
wise than where specifically, provided for by this
Ordinance.

15. No regulations made by the committee under the
last preceding section shall be binding on the members of
the said Kowloon Tong Church until such regulations have
been passed by a majority of members present and voting
at a general meeting of members.

16. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate.
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
13 of 1950. Short title. Description and incorporation. Powers of corporation. Transfer of property. Number of trustees. Vacation of office by trustees. New trustees. Their appointment and tenure of office. Notification of changes of trustees. Execution of deeds. Election of committee of management and appointment of officers. Appointment and removal of clergyman or pastor. Committee to control temporal affairs. Custody of documents. Power of committee to make regulations. Regulations not binding until approved. Saving.

13 of 1950. Short title. Description and incorporation. Powers of corporation. Transfer of property. Number of trustees. Vacation of office by trustees. New trustees. Their appointment and tenure of office. Notification of changes of trustees. Execution of deeds. Election of committee of management and appointment of officers. Appointment and removal of clergyman or pastor. Committee to control temporal affairs. Custody of documents. Power of committee to make regulations. Regulations not binding until approved. Saving.

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JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGUESE PROVINCE) INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 293.

JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGUESE PROVINCE)
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in Hong
Kong of the Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Order.
[6th December, 1929.]

1. This Ordinance inay be cited as the Jesuit Order
(Portuguese Province) Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony, of
the Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Order shall be a cor-
poration sole, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall
have the name of 'The Procurator in Hong Kong of the
Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Order' and in that name
shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be
sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have and
use a common seal.

3. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the
corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,
purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings,
messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situated, and also to invest money upon inort-
gage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or
upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any government, municipality, corporation, com-
pany or person, and also to purchase, acquire and possess
vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature and
kind soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (i),
the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property 'in
the Colony unless it has previously obtained the special con-
sent of the Governor in Council in each case.

(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, ex-
change, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, shares or Securities, or vessels or other goods and
chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belong-
ing to the corporation, upon such terms as the corporation
may seem fit.





4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever trans-
ferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in
the event of the death of the Procurator for the time being
in Hong Kong, of the Portuguese Province of the Jesuit
Order, or in the event of his ceasing to hold office as such
Procurator, pass to his successor in such office when
appointed.

5. (1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office
of Procurator in Hong Kong of the Portuguese Province of
the Jesuit Order such person shall within three weeks after
his appointment or within such further time as may be
allowed by the Governor furnish to the Governor satisfactory
evidence of his appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of
such appointment.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of
the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of the said
Procurator or his attorney and shall be signed by him or his
attorney, and such signing
shall be taken as sufficient evidence
of the due sealing of such deeds and other instruments, and
all deeds, instruments and other documents and writings
requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by
such Procurator or his attorney.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Originally 27 of 1929. Fraser. 27 of 1929. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 27 of 1929. Fraser. 27 of 1929. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

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JESUIT ORDER (ENGLISH ASSISTANCY) INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 292.

JESUIT ORDER (ENGLISH ASSISTANCY)
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the iicorporation of the Procurator in Hong
Kong of the English Assistaitcy of the Jesuit Order.

[4th November, 1927.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Jesuit Order
(English Assistancy) Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procurator for the tirne being in the Coiony
of the English Assistancy of the jesuit Order shall be a
corporation sole hereinafter called the corporation, and shall
nave the name of.'The Procurator in Hong Koitg of the
Euglish Assistancv of the Jesuit Order' and in that name
shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and
be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have
and use a common seal.

3. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) the
corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,
purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, building, mes-
suages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon mort-
gage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements or
upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any government, municipality, corporation, com-
pany or person and also to purchase, acquire and possess
vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind
soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1)
the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property
in the Colony unless it has previously obtained the special
consent of the Governor in Council in each case.

(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, mes-
suages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, or vessels or other goods and chatte15,





which are for the time being vested in or belong to the
corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may
seem fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever trans-
ferred to, the corporation in any manner whatsoever, shall,
in the event of the death of the Procurator for the time being
in Hong Kong of the English Assistancy of the Jesuit Order
or in the event of his ceasing to hold office as such Pro-
curator, pass to his successor in such office when appointed.

5. (1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office
of Procurator in Hong Kong of the English Assistancy of
the Jesuit Order such person shall, within three weeks after
his appointment or within such further time as may be
allowed by the Governor, furnish to the Governor satisfactory
evidence of his appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of
such appointment.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of the said
Procurator or his attorney and shall be signed by him or his
atorney and such signing shall be taken as sufficient
evidence of the due sealing of such deeds and other instru-
ments and all deeds, instruments and other documents and
writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be
signed by such Procurator or his attorney.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Originally 18 of 1927. Fraser 18 of 1927. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 18 of 1927. Fraser 18 of 1927. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

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IRISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF FRANCISCANS MINOR INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 291.

IRISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER
OF FRANCISCANS MINOR INCORPORATION.
To provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in Hong
Kong of the Irish Province of the Order of Franciscians
Minor.

[24th December, 1937.]

1. This Ordinance rnay be cited as the Irish Province
of the Order of Franciscans Minor Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony of
Hong Kong of the Irish Province of the Order of Franciscans
Minor shall be a corporation sole, hereinafter called the
corporation, and shall have the name of 'The Procurator in
Hong Kong of the Irish Province of the Order of Fraciscans
Minor' and in that name shall have perpetual succession and
shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony
and shall and may have and use a common seal.

3. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) the
corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,
purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, mes-
suages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon
mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements,
or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any government, municipality, corporation,
company or person, and also to purchase, acquire and possess
vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind
soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) the
corporation shall not acquire any immoveable property in
the Colony unless it shall have previously obtained the
special consent of the Governor in Council in each case.

(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, rnes-





suages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds
shares or securities, or vessels or other goods and chattels
which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the
corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may seem
fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever trans-
ferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall,
in the event of the death of the Procurator for the time being
in Hong Kong of the Irish Province of the Order of Fran-
ciscans Minor, or in the event of his ceasing to hold office
as such Procurator, pass to his successor in such office when
appointed.

5. (1) When any other person is appointed to the office
of Procurator in Hong Kong of the Irish Province of the
Order of Franciscans Minor such person shall within three
weeks after his appointment or within such further time as
may be allowed by the Governor furnish to the Governor
satisfactory evidence of his appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of
such appointment.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the said
Procurator or his attorney and shall be signed by him or
his attorney, and such signing shall be taken as sufficient
evidence of the due scaling of such deeds and other instru-
ments and all deeds instruments and other documents and
writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be
signed by such Procurator or his attorney.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
28 of 1937. Short title. Incorporation. Power of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

28 of 1937. Short title. Incorporation. Power of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

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HOP YAT TONG CHURCH OF CHRIST HONG KONG INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 290.

HOP YAT TONG CHURCH OF CHRIST HONG KONG
INCORPORATION.

To Provide for the incorporation of the Hop Yat Tong
Church of Christ Hong Kong.

[17th July, 193I.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hop Yat Tong
Church of Christ Hong Kong Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The trustees for the time being of the Hop Yat
Tong Church of Christ Hong Kong shall be a corporation
sole, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the
name of 'The Trustees of the Hop Yat Tong Church of
Christ Hong Kong' and in that name shall have perpetual
succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts
in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common
seal.

3. (1) The corporation shall have power to acquire,
accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind
soever and wheresoever situated and also to invest moneys
upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or
tenements or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any Government, municipality, cor-
poration, company or person, and also to purchase, acquire
and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of what
nature and kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, mes-
suages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, or vessels or other goods and chattels,
which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the
corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may seem
fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever trans-
ferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in





the event of the death of any of the trustees for the time
being or in the event of any trustee ceasing to hold office
as such trustee pass to his successor in such office when
appointed.

5. (1) Whenever any persons are appointed to the
office of, trustees of the Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ
Hong Kong such persons shall within three weeks after their
appointment or within such further time as may be allowed
by the Governor furnish to the Governor satisfactory
evidence of their appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of
such appointment.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the cor-
porate seal of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence
of the trustees and shall be signed by thern.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them. [8
Originally 19 of 1931. Fraser 19 of 1931. Short title. Interpretation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Trustees. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 19 of 1931. Fraser 19 of 1931. Short title. Interpretation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Trustees. Execution of documents. Saving.

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HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL FUND ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 289.

HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL FUND.

To provide for the establishment and adininistration of a
Hong Kong War Memorial Fund.

[21st February, 1947.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong
War Memorial Fund Ordinance.

2. A Fund to be known as the Hong Kong War
Memorial Fund, hereinafter called the Fund, shall be
established and administered in the manner hereinafter
appearing.

3. The Fund shall consist of such voluntary con-
tributions as may be made thereto and such appropriations
thereto as may frorn tinie to time be made by the Legisla-
tive Council, together with such additions or accumulations
as may be made or accrue thereto and together with any
investment from time to time representing the same or any
of them and together also with the interest and income
derived from any such investment.

4. (1) The objects of the Fund shall be, as follows-
(a) without distinction of class or to
provide for the maintenance, education, benefit or
advancement of the widow, wife or children or
dependent parent as the case may be, of any officer
or member of any, force, corps, unit or other
organization specified in the First Schedule to this
Ordinance, who served therein between the 7th day
of December, 1941, and the 25th day of December,
1941, and who-
(i) was killed in action; or
(ii) died as result of wounds received in
action; or
(iii) died as the result of injuries or hardships
sustained during such service as aforesaid ; or
(iv) having been captured by the enemy, Was
killed or died while in captivity or died after release
from captivity as the result of injuries or hardships
sustained while in captivity, or





(v) died as the result of illness the contraction
of which was specifically attributable to such service.
or captivity as aforesaid; or
(vi) by reason of wounds received in action,
injuries or hardships sustained during such service
or captivity as aforesaid, or illness the contraction
of which was specifically attributable to such service
or captivity as aforesaid is temporarily or per-
manently either wholly or partially incapacitated
from earning a living;
(b) to provide assistance to any officer or member of
the organizations specified in paragraph (a) who
served therein between the aforesaid dates and by
reason of wounds received in action, injuries or
hardships sustained during such service or captivity
as aforesaid, or illness the contraction
of which
was specifically attributable to such service or
captivity, is temporarily or permanently either
wholly or partially, incapacitated from earning his
living;
(c)to establish and maintain any such homes, orphan-
ages or other institutions as may be conducive to
the attainment of the foregoing objects;
(d)without distinction of class or nationality to pro-
vide and endow scholarships for any children
whose maintenance, education, benefit or advance-
ment provision may lawfully be made under the
provisions of this Ordinance;
(e)to do all other such lawful things as may be
incidental or conducive to the attainment of the
foregoing objects.
(2) In this Ordinance-
'child' includes a child not born in wedlock
'wife' includes the mother of a child not born in wedlock
and the word 'widow' shall be construed accordingly;
'dependent parent' includes a person wholly or substan-
tially maintained by an officer or member referred to
in subsection (3), who during the minority of such
officer or member acted in the place of a parent to
such officer or member.
(3) All or any of the benefits which, under the pro-
visions of this Ordinance, might be, extended to any officer
or member of any force, corps, unit or other organization





specified in the First Schedide, or to the widow, wife or
children or dependent parent of any such officer or mem-
ber, may be extended to a member of any class of persons
specified in the Second Schedule, or to the widow, wife
or children or dependent parent of any such member as
the case may be.

(4) After ample provision for all the foregoing objects
has in the opinion of the committee been made, an addi-
tional object of the Fund shall be to provide benefits for
the community as a whole, without distinction of class or
nationality and such benefits shall take the form of the
undertakings mentioned in the Third Schedule Which Shall
have no priority one over the other.

(5) The Governor may, by order under the hand of
the Colonial Secretary, add to any of the Schedules.

5. (1) The Fund shall be administered by a com-
mittee (hereinafter called the committee) the chairman and
other members of which shall be appointed by the Governor.

(2) The committee shall consist of such member or
members, not less than five in all, as the Governor shall
direct.

(3) All appointments to the committee shall be held
only during the Governor's pleasure.

(4) The quorum necessary for the transaction of the
business of the committee may be fixed by regulation rnade
under this Ordinance and unless so fixed three inembers
shall form a quorum.

6. None of the objects in subsection (1) of section
as extended by subsections (2) and (3) thereof shall be.
deemed to have in law or equity any priority one over the
other nor shall any rateable appropriation of the Fund to
such objects or to the undertakings specified in the Third
Schedule be required and the committee shall, subject to
the provisions of this Ordinance, have full power, authority
and discretion to govern, direct and decide all matter's
whatsoever connected with the administration of the Fund
and the accomplishment of the objects and purposes thereof.





7. The committee shall have power to make regula-
tions for their procedure in the transaction of business and
the maintenance of good order at their meetings and gen-
erally for all matters relating to the administration and
management of the Fund and the discharge of the duties
of the committee : Provided always that a copy of such
regulations shall be furnished to the Colonial Secretary,' and
that they, shall be subject to disallowance, alteration or
amendment at any time by the Governor,

8. All questions which may arise at any ineeting, of
the committee shall be decided by a majority of votes of
the members present and, in case of an equality of votes,
the chairman shall have a casting vote in addition to his
original vote: Provided that, in any case in which the
committee is divided in opinion, any three members of the
committee may demand that the point be referred to the
Governor for his decision, which shall in every, such case
be final.

9. An accurate account shall be kept of all moneys
received and disbursed by the Fund and the committee
shall0, within one month after the termination of each
calendar year, forward to the Colonial Secretary a report
on the administration of the Fund during the previous year
together with a duly audited statement of receipts and
expenditure of the Fund during the preceding year and a
statement of the assets and liabilities of the Fund up to
the end of such year.

10. The chairman of the committee shall be a body
corporate, and shall have the name of 'The Chairman of
the Committee of the Hong Kong War Memorial Fund,-
and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and
shall and may sue and be sued in all courts, and shall
and may have and use a common seal, and the said seal
may break, change, alter, and make anew as to the said
corporation may seem fit, and the said corporation shall
have full power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take,
hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tene-
ments of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever
situate in this Colony, and also to invest moneys on deposit
in any bank in the Colony or elsewhere or on mortgage





of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements in this
Colony, or on the mortgages or debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying
on business or having an office in this Colony, and also
to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels
whatsoever, and the said corporation is hereby further
empowered, (by deed under its seal), to grant, sell, convey,
assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any, lands, buildings,
messuages and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds and securities, goods and chattels, vested in the cor-
poration on such terins is to the said corporation may
seem fit.

11. All deeds, documents and other instruments which
by law require the seal of the said corporation shall be
sealed therewith in the presence of the chairman of the
committee or his attorney duly authorized, and shall also
be signed by him or his attorney duly authorized, and such
signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the
due scaling of such deeds, documents or other instruments.

FIRST SCHEDULE. [ s. 4.]

1 . The Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force.
2. The Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
3. The Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and the Auxiliary
and Affiliated Units thereof.
4. The Hong Kong Corps of Air Raid Wardens.
5. The Hong Kong Police Reserve.
6.The Hong Kong Civil Defence Corps, as specified here-
under-
Auxiliary Communications Service.
Auxiliary Conservancy Corps.
Auxiliary Fire Service.
Auxiliary Labour Corps.
Auxiliary Medical Corps.
Auxiliary Ordnance Corps.
Auxiliary Quartering Corps.
Auxiliary Supply Corps.
Auxiliary Transport Service.
Civil Pay and Accounts Service.
Public Works Corps,
Auxiliary Rescue and Demolition Corps.
7. His Majesty's Regular Armed Forces, including uniformed
personnel attached thereto: Provided that persons not locally
recruited therefor or not locally attached thereto or not married
to persons ordinarily resident in the Colony, shall be excluded.





SECOND SCHEDULE. [s. 4 (3). ]

1. Persons who were subjected to torture during the enemy
occupation and by reason thereof-
(a) died; or
(b) were temporarily or permanently either wholly or partially
incapacitated from earning a living.
2. Persons who were executed by the enemy.

THIRD SCHEDULE. [s. 4.]

Any undertaking for establishing, endowing, providing for,
maintaining or contributing to-
(a) hospitals, clinics and creches in the Colony;
(b) educational, recreational, civic or social welfare centres,
facilities or amenities in the Colony;
(c)relief (including medical stores and supplies) to homeless,
unemployed or indigent persons in the Colony;
(d)scholarships involving work, study, tuition or instruction
in the Colony or in the United Kingdom;
(e)institutions in the Colony for the aged and infirm, the
young or the mentally deficient or unstable;
the cure or relief of suffering and disease in the Colony
or the cure and relief outside the Colony of inhabitants
of the Colony who cannot adequately be treated inside the
Colony.
10 of 1947. 3 of 1948. Short title. Establishment of the Fund. Maintenance of the Fund. Objects of the Fund. 3 of 1948, s. 2. [s. 4 cont.] 3 of 1948, s. 2. [s. 4 cont.] First Schedule. 3 of 1948, s. 2. Second Schedule. Third Schedule. Administration of the Fund. General powers of the committee. Third Schedule. Regulations. [cf. Cap. 306, s. 8.] Determination of questions at meetings of the committee. Accounts. Incorporation of chairman of committee of the Fund. [cf. Cap. 280.] [s. 10 cont.] Use of seal of corporation. G.N. 931/47.

10 of 1947. 3 of 1948. Short title. Establishment of the Fund. Maintenance of the Fund. Objects of the Fund. 3 of 1948, s. 2. [s. 4 cont.] 3 of 1948, s. 2. [s. 4 cont.] First Schedule. 3 of 1948, s. 2. Second Schedule. Third Schedule. Administration of the Fund. General powers of the committee. Third Schedule. Regulations. [cf. Cap. 306, s. 8.] Determination of questions at meetings of the committee. Accounts. Incorporation of chairman of committee of the Fund. [cf. Cap. 280.] [s. 10 cont.] Use of seal of corporation. G.N. 931/47.

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HONG KONG CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNION INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 288.

HONG KONG CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNION
INCORPORATION.

To Provide for the incorporation of The Hong Kong Chinese
Christian Churches Union.

[4th June, 1948.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Hong Kong
Chinese Christian Churches Union Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'board of directors' means the board of directors who have
the power of management and control of the affairs of
the Union in accordance with the constitution ;
'chairman' and 'vice-chairman' means the chairman and
vice-chairman of the board of directors ;
'constitution' means the rules or regulations governing
the Union for the time being in force together with any
amendment thereto made from time to time in accord-
ance with stich rules or regulations;
'The Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union' or
'the Union' means the representatives of such Chinese
Christian Churches in the Colony as are or shall be
members of the Union in accordwice with the
constitution.

3. (1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office
of chairman and whenever any person is appointed to the
office of vice-chairman such persons shall, within three weeks
after their respective appointments or within such further
time as may be allowed by the Colonial Secretary, furnish
to the Colonial Secretary satisfactory evidence of their
respective appointments.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has heen furnished
to the Colonial Secretary by such persons shall be conclusive
evidence Of Such appointments.

Archdeacon Samuel Kauyan Lee. and the
Reverend Lau Yut Sing shall be the first chairman
and
vice-chairman respectively until other persons are





appointed to be chairman and vice-chairman respectively
in accordance with the constitution.

4. A certificate under the hand of the chairman, or in
his absence from the Colony of the vice-chairman-
(a)that any person therein named is a member of the
Union ; or
(b)that any rules or regulations annexed to such certi-
ficate are the constitution;
shall be accepted for all purposes as sufficient proof of the
fact that such person is a member of the Union, or that the
constitution was duly made and is in force.

5. (1) The Union shall be a body corporate under the
name of 'The Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches
Union', hereinafter referred to as the corporation.

(2) The. corporation by the name aforesaid shall have
perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in
all courts in the Colony, and shall and may have and use a
common seal, and may break, change, alter and make anew
the said seal as to the corporation may seem fit.

(3) The corporation shall have ower to acquire, accept
leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, build-
ings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever
and wheresoever situated in the Colony, and also to invest
moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages
or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company ,
and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels
of what nature and kind soever.

(4) The corporation shall further have by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, shares or securities, or goods and chattels which are
vested in or belong to the corporation, upon stich terms as
to the corporation may seem fit.





6. All deeds, documents and other instruments requir-
ing the seal of the corporation shall be sealed therewith in
the presence of the chairman, or in his absence from the
Colony, of the vice-chairman, and shall also be signed by
the chairman, or by the vice-chairman. The seal shall be
kept in the custody of the chairman, or in his absence from
the Colony, in the custody of the vice-chairman.

7. All matters of internal management of the Union,
including any amendment of the. constitution, shall be
settled and carried out in accordance with the constitution.

8. Nothing in this Ordinance. shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs
or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate.
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
22 of 1948. Short title. Interpretation. Appointment of chairman and vice-Chairman. [s. 3 cont.] Proof of membership of the Union and proof of the constitution. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Seal. Internal management of the Union. Saving.

22 of 1948. Short title. Interpretation. Appointment of chairman and vice-Chairman. [s. 3 cont.] Proof of membership of the Union and proof of the constitution. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Seal. Internal management of the Union. Saving.

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HONG KONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 287.

HONG KONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION
INCORPORATION.

TO Prooide for the incorporation of the Hong Kong Anti-
Tuberculosis Association..

[22nd October, 1948.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong
Anti-Tuberculosis Association Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'constitution' means the constitution of the association
approved from time to time by the board of directors for
the tirne being of the association, subject to the
provisions of this Ordinance relating to any inatter
expressly dealt with in this Ordinance;
'association' means The Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis
Association ;
'corporation' means the board of directors of the associa-
tion as incorporated by this Ordinance.

3. (1) The board of directors of the association and
their successors in office as hereinafter defined shall be a
body corporate and shall have the name of 'The Hong
Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association,' and in that name
shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and
be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have
and use a common seal.

(2) The members of the board of directors shall be
appointed in accordance with the constitution and shall for
the time being be deemed to be members of the corporation
upon notice of their appointment, and where such appoint-
ment is made to replace i retiring member of the board of
directors, upon notice in addition of such retirement, being
filed with the Registrar of Companies.

(3) Any such notice shall be signed by two of the
continuing or retiring members and shall be scaled with the
common seal of the corporation.





(4) The corporation shall (subject to compliance with
subsections (2) and (3)) consist of the persons holding office at
the date of this Ordinance corning into force, as members of
such board of directors and thereafter of the persons for the
time being duly elected and appointed in place of the above
or any of thern as their successors in accordance with the
constitution.

4. (1) The corporation shall have power to acquire,
accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, messuages or tenemnts of what nature or kind
soever and wheresoever situate in the Colony, and also to
invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings,
iriessuages or tenements in the Colony or upon the
mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of
any corporation or company carrying on business or having
an office in the Colony and also to purchase and acquire
all goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall have power to grant, sell,
convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up,
mortgage, demise, reassigii, transfer or otherwise dispose
of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, mortgages,
debentures, stocks, securities, goods and chattels vested in
the corporation on such ternis as to the corporation may
seem fit.

5. All deeds documents and other instruments requir-
ing the seal of the corporation shall be sealed with its
common seal in the presence of three members of the board
of directors and shall also be, signed by them, and such
signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the duc
scaling of such deeds documents and other instruments.

6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or he deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
55 of 1948. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. [s. 3 cont.] Powers of the corporation. Seal. Saving.

55 of 1948. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. [s. 3 cont.] Powers of the corporation. Seal. Saving.

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HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY LIMITED (BY-LAWS) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 286.
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN
COMPANY LIMITED (BY-LAWS).
To authorize the makingg of by the Hongkong and
Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited.

[24th April,1908.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hongkong and
and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited (By-
laws) Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'company' means the Hongkong. and Kowloon Wharf and
Godown Company Limited, their successors and
assigns;
'official of the company' includes only the persons acting
in the following capacities: director, general manager,
manager, secretary, chief clerk, berthing master, super
intendent engineer, cargo suprintendent, wharfinger.

3. The company shall have power, subject to the
approval of the Governor in Council, to make by-laws in
connexion with the conduct of its bushiess and the main-
tenance of order on its premises, and such by-laws
prohibit conditionally or otherwise the user by passengers
or by the public of the company's piers and premises.

4. A copy of every by-law clearly printed in English
and Chinese in large type shall be posted in a Conspicuous
place on the company's business premises and on each of
the company's piers.

5. Any by-law madC Under section 3 may declare any,
breach of any such by-law to bc an offence and may prescribe
penalties therefor : Provided that no penalty so prescribed
shall exceed a fine of fifty dollars for the first offence, and





one hundred dollars for every subsequent offence : Provided
also that until such breaches and such penalties are so
prescribed by by-law, any person who commits a breach
of the by-laws made under sectin 3 shall be liable to a
fine of fifty dollars for the first offence, and a fine of one
hundred dollars for every subsequent offence.

HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN
COMPANY LIMITED BY-LAWS.
(Cap. 286, section 3.)
(Ordinance No. 6 of 1908.)
[12th June, 1908.]

1. These by-laws may be cited as the Hongkong and Kowloon
Wharf and Godown Company Limited By-laws.

2. Every master or commanding officer of any vessel alongside
any of the company's piers shall shift his berth on being requested
to do so by an official of the company. On a typhoon signal being
hoisted, every master or commanding officer of any vessel alongside
any of the company's piers shall immediately raise steam and
thereupon leave the pier on being requested to do so by an official
of tile company.

. 3. No person, unless in the employment of the company or
belonging to or having business with vessels alongside, shall enter
or be upon any of the company's piers or premises without the
licence of an official of the company.

4. No merchandise, cargo, coal, wagon, carriage, cart, truck
or other conveyance shall be taken on to any of the company's piers
or premises without the licence of an official of the company.

5. No nuisance of any description shall be committed on or
about any of the company's piers or premises.

6. No steamer, vessel, launch, boat, junk, sampan or other
craft of any description (other than vessels belonging to the Marine
Department or police) shall make fast to, or hold on to, or lie
alongside of, or block the approaches to, any of the company's piers
or premises without the licence of an official of the company.





7. No craft of any kind shall make fast broadside to the
sea-wall of the Company's premises without the licence of an official
of the company.

8. No person shall smoke inside any of the company's buildings.

9. No person shall interfere or meddle with or move in any
way any of the company's trucks or make use of its tramlines without
the permission of an official of the company.
Originally 6 of 1908. Fraser 6 of 1908. Short title. Interpretation. By-laws. Copies to be posted. Offences and penalties. Regulations-Fraser, vol. 2, p. 559.

Originally 6 of 1908. Fraser 6 of 1908. Short title. Interpretation. By-laws. Copies to be posted. Offences and penalties. Regulations-Fraser, vol. 2, p. 559.

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HOLTS WHARF (BY-LAWS) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 285.

HOLTS WHARF (BY-LAWS).

To authorize the making of by-laws in respect of Holts
Wharf.

[18th February, 1921.]


1. This Ordinance may bc cited as the Holts wharf
Ordinance.

2. (1) In this Ordinance-
'Holts Wharf' ineans all that piece or parcel of land situate
lying and being at Kowloon in the Colony of Hong
Kong and registered in the Land Office as Kowloon
Marine Lot No. 88, together with the godowns, build-
ings, piers and other erections situate thereon and thereto
belonging;
'official' includes only the persons acting in the following
capacities in the employment of the person, firm or
company, for the time being acting as the manager of
Holts Wharf or any of them, namely, general manager,
manager, shipping manager, assistant shipping mana-
ger, chief clerk, secretary, accountant, wharf manager,
assistant wharf manager, berthing master, engineer,
wharfinger and cargo superintendent.

(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, if the Colonial
Secretary gives notice in the Gazette that any person, firm
or company is acti ng as the manager of Holis Wharf, such
person, firm or company shall be deemed to be so acting
from the date of such notice so appearing until revocation
by the Colonial Secretary of such notice is published in the
Gazette.

3. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council
to make by-laws in connexion with the conduct of the busi-
ness of Holts Wharf and the maintenance of order and safet
thereon, and such by-laws may prohibit, conditionally or
otherwise, the usage by passengers or by the public of the
godowns, buildings, piers and premises situate on Holts
Wharf.





(2) A copy of the by-laws so made clearly printed in
English and Chinese shall be posted in a conspicuous place
on the premises.

4. Any by-law made under section 3 may declare any,
breach of any such by-law to be an offence and may prescribe
penalties therefor: Provided that no penalty so prescribed
shall exceed a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars.

5. Nothing herein shall affect or be deemed to affect the
rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or Successors, or
the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other
persons except such as are mentioned. in this Ordinance
and those claiming by, from or under them.

HOLTS WHARF (BY-LAWS.)
(Cap. 285, section 3.)
(Ordinance No. 3 of 192l.)
[18th March, 1921.]
1. These by-laws may be cited as the Holts Wharf By-laws.

2. No person, unless in the employment of the manager of
Holts Wharf or belonging to or having business with vessels along-
side, shall enter or be upon any of the piers or premises of Holts
Wharf without the licence of an official.

3. No merchandise. cargo, coal, wagon, carriage, cart, truck
or other conveyance shall be taken on to any of the piers or premises
of Holts Wharf without the licence of an official.

4. No nuisance of any description shall be committed on or
about any of the piers or premises of Holts Wharf.

5. No steamer, vessel, launch, boat, junk, sampan or other
craft of any description (other than vessels belonging to the Marine
Department or police) shall make fast to, or hold on to, or lie along-
side of, or block the approaches to, any of the piers or premises
of Holts Wharf without the licence of an official.

6. No craft of any kind shall make fast broadside on the Praya
Wharf of the premises of Holts Wharf without the licence of an
official.

7. No person shall smoke inside any of the buildings on Holts
Wharf.





8. The steps leading to the wharves on Holts Wharf shall
not be used for landing or delivering cargo, and not more than
two launches shall lie alongside the said steps at the same time.

9. Any person who commits a beach of any of by-laws 2
to 8 shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty: a fine of two hundred
and fifty dollars,
Originally 3 of 1921. Fraser 3 of 1921. Short title. Interpretation. By-laws. [s. 3 cont.] Offences and penalties. Saving. Regulations-Fraser, vol. 3, p. 936. G.N.A. 283/50. G.N.A. 283/50.

Originally 3 of 1921. Fraser 3 of 1921. Short title. Interpretation. By-laws. [s. 3 cont.] Offences and penalties. Saving. Regulations-Fraser, vol. 3, p. 936. G.N.A. 283/50. G.N.A. 283/50.

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HELENA MAY INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 284.

HELENA MAY INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN.

To provide for the incorporation of the Council of the
Helena May Institute for Women and for vesting in
the corporation the properly and rights of the Associa-
tion known as the Helena iMay Instilitte for Wolnen.

[17th January, 1947.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Helena May
Institute for Women Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless otherwise provided or
unless the context otherwise requires-
'constitution' means the constitution of the Helena May
Institute for Women as set forth in the Schedule to this
Ordinance and any amendment or variation thereof
approved by, the Governor which may be made there-
under ;
'council' means the council for the time being of the
Helena May Institute for Women appointed in
accordance with the constitution.

3. (1) The members of the council of the Helena May
Institute for Women and their successors in office as herein-
after defined shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called
the corporation, and shall have the name of 'The Council
of the Helena May Institute for Women', and in that name
shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and
be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have
and use a common seal.

(2) Members of the council shall be appointed in
accordance with the constitution, and shall for the periods of
their respective appointments be members of the corporation.

(3) The corporation shall from time to time and at all
times inform the Colonial Secretary of all changes in the
membership of the council.

(4) The council shall be held to be legally constituted
notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by the
death, absence, resignation or incapacity of any member
or by any other cause.





4. (1) The corporation shall have power to acquire,
accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind
soever and wheresoever situated and also to invest moneys
upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or
tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any corporation or company, and also
to purchase, acquire and possess vessels, goods and chattels
of what nature and kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power to grant,
sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield
up, mortgage, demise,reassign, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements,
mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities,
vessels, goods and chattels which are for the time being
vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms
to the corporation seem fit.

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2)
of this section the corporation shall not sell, convey, assign
or dispose of the lands vested in the corporailon by this
Ordinance or any buildings thereon or any part thereof to
any, person without the written licence of the Governor and
if the said lands and buildings or any part thereof shall at
any time cease to be used for the purposes of the corporation
in accordance with the provisions of the constitution the
said lands and buildings or part thereof, as the case may
be, shall revert to the Crown.

5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the
common seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the
presence of two members of the council and shall be signed
by such two members and the secretary for the time being.

6. All matters of internal nianagernent shall be settled
and carried out in accordance with the constitution.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or Under them. [8





SCHEDULE.

CONSTITUTION
OF THE
HELENA MAY INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN

ARTICLE I-NAME AND GENERAL POLICY.
1. The name of the corporation shall be 'The Helena May
Institute for Women'.
2. In this constitution-
'Ordinance' means the Helena May Institute for Women Ordinance;
'secretary' means the secretary for the time being of the institute
conducted by the corporation.
3. The object of the corporation shall be to provide for the
welfare of the women and girls of the Colony and for that purpose
to furnish and maintain the premises from time to time belonging
to the corporation and to provide therein board and lodging and
the amenities of a club and to conduct or carry on therein or in
connexion therewith all such lawful, social, educational, religious
or other activities as may be incidental or conducive to the attain-
ment of the above object.
4. The corporation shall not engage in any political activities
or permit its name or premises to be used in connexion therewith.
5. The corporation may permit its premises to be used upon
such terms as may be agreed upon for the delivery and holding of
lectures, exhibitions, public meetings, conferences and gatherings of
a like nature approved by the corporation.
6. Save as aforesaid the income and property of the corpora-
tion, whencesoever derived, shall be used and applied solely towards
the promotion of the object of the corporation.

ARTICLE II-MEMBERSHIP.
1. There shall be two categories of members of the institute
conducted by the corporation (hereinafter called 'The Helena May')
namely-
(a)residential members, that is to say members living in the
Helena May, and
(b)subscriber members, that is to say members not living in
the Helena May but to whom the club amenities are
available.
2. (1) The first members of the.council shall be deemed to
be subscriber members.
(2) Any applicant for admission as a subscriber member who
shall satisfy the Council that she was a shareholder or subscribing
member of the Helena May Institute for Women at any time before
the 25th day of December, 1941, and had not ceased to be a member
under the provisions of Article 22, 25 or 26 of the Articles of
Association thereof, shall be admitted to membership of the Helena
May as a subscriber member without further formality. The
decision of the council in respect of any such application shall be
final and conclusive for all purposes.
(3) An applicant for admission as a residential member may,
in the absolute discretion of the council, be admitted as such either
on the affirmative votes of a majority of the members of the council





Present at any meeting of the council or on the affirmative votes
of a majority of the members for the time being of the council
notified by such members in writing to the secretary.

(4) Every applicant for subscriber membership of the Helena
Alay (other than the members referred to in sub-paragraphs (1)
and (2) of this paragraph) shall be proposed by one subscriber
member and seconded by another subscriber member, both being
able from personal knowledge to vouch for her fitness for member-
ship. The application shall be sent to the secretary who shall
forthwith enter the name, address and occupation of the applicant
and the names of the proposer and seconder in a book to be kept
for that purpose, and shall post a notice of the application giving
the like particulars in a prominent place at or near the entrance of
the Helena May.
(5) Subscriber members shall be admissible only by ballot. The
balloting committee shall be formed of the members for the time
being of the council and ten subscriber members of the Helena May.
Any two subscriber members may nominate a subscriber member
to serve on the balloting committee and all such nominations shall
be posted on the notice board in the Helena May at least forty-eight
hours before the annual general meeting.
If the number of members nominated does not exceed ten they
may be elected by resolution, but if the number exceeds ten then
lists of the members nominated shall be circulated to the subscriber
members present at the annual meeting and each such member shall
hand in her list with ten names unerased and the ten nominees
securing the most votes shall be declared to be elected.
The balloting committee shall be deemed to be lawfully
constituted notwithstanding any vacancies therein arising through
default in the nomination of the full complement of subscriber
members or any other cause.
The balloting committee shall choose its own chairman from
among the members of that committee.
No member of the balloting committee shall on any occasion
vote by proxy.
(6) After the expiration of not less than seven days after the
posting of the notice referred to in sub-paragraph (4) the ballot shall
be open between the hours of 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. for five days,
exclusive of Sundays.
The ballot box shall then be opened in the presence of two
members of the balloting committee.
In the event of less than five members having balloted affirma-
tively within the said period of five days, the chairman or any
three members of the balloting committee may direct that the ballot
shall remain open for a further period of five days immediately
succeeding the original period of the ballot.
Should five members not have recorded their votes affirmatively
before the conclusion of the ballot the applicant shall be deemed
not to have been elected.
Not less than five affirmative votes shall constitute a ballot and
one negative vote in five shall exclude.
The number of votes shall not be disclosed.
(7) On the election of a subscriber member she shall be notified
in writing and shall forthwith sign the roll of subscriber members
and shall thereupon be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the
terms of the constitution and by the rules for the time being in
force.
(8) If at any time after the election of an applicant the council
shall ascertain that she has been elected under any misrepresentation
or if any material information as to her antecedents has been
withheld, then the council shall, after inquiry and notice to the





person so elected, have power to erase her name frorn the roll of
subscriber members and she shall forthwith cease to be a subscriber
member.
(9) No applicant proposed and not elected shall be proposed
again until after the expiration of three months. The secretary
shall give notice in writing to the proposer and seconder of any
applicant who fails to gain membership.
(10) The council may in their discretion permit any person who
has been duly proposed and seconded as a subscriber member to
enjoy the rights and privileges of a member pending election on
such terms as they shall think fit.
(11) The council may from time to time fill any casual vacancies
in the balloting committee that may occur.

3. (1) A residential member shall pay to the corporation all
such charges as the council shall prescribe for board lodging and
incidentals. Every residential member shall becom~ and remain
throughout her period of residence a subscriber member of the
Helena May and shall have and enjoy all the obligations and
privileges of a subscriber member.
(2) A subscriber member shall pay to the corporation as from
the beginning of the month during which she is admitted to member-
ship such monthly or other subscription and other charges as the
council may prescribe.
(3) All members shall comply with the by-laws for the time
being in force.

4.(1) If any member shall fail to pay any monies due from
her to the corporation as and when patment thereof shall be
required, the council may strike her name off the roll of residential
or subscriber members as the case may be.
(2) If any member shall in the opinion of three-fourths of
those members of the council present at a meeting duly convened
for the consideration of the matter have behaved, either in the
Helena May or elsewhere in a manner calculated unduly to
inconvenience the other members or likely to be injurious to the
reputation or interests of the Helena May, the council may call
upon her to resign forthwith and if she shall fail to resign may
strike her name ofY the roll of members or, if the council so thinks
fit, may suspend her membership for a period not exceeding six
months. The decision of the council shall for all purposes be final
and conclusive.
(3) A member whose name is struck off the roll of members
and a member whose membership is suspended shall forthwith
forfeit, or, as the case may be, shall forthwith forfeit for the duration
of the suspension, all right to the use of the Helena May and any
claim upon any property of the corporation, but the council may,
for cause shown, reinstate any such member.

5. A subscriber member who may be leaving the Colony for
three or more months at a time shall give notice to the secretary
that she desires her name to be placed on the list of absent members
and thereupon shall not be liable to pay the subscriber member's
subscription for those complete months during which she shall be
absent from the Colony, but shall pay the full monthly subscription
for any parts of months during which she is resident in the Colony.
A subscriber member whose name has not been placed on the
absent members list and who shall be absent from the Colony for
more than three months at a time and an absent member who shall
be absent from the Colony for more than two years at a time shall
be deemed, to have resigned.





6. No member whose subscription is in arrear or who shall
have failed to pay any monies due from her to the corporation shall
be, Competent to propose or second any applicant for membership
or visitor to the Helena May, to ballot for any applicant, or to vote
on any occasion whatsoever.
7. A subscribing member may relinquish her membership by
giving notice to the secretary but will be held liable for the subscrip-
tion for the month in which notice is given.

ARTICLE III-MANAGEMENT.

1. The management of the affairs of the Corporation and of
the Institute herein called 'The Helena May' shall be vested in the
Council of the Helena May Institute for Women.
2. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the council
shall consist of fifteen members of whom-
(a)eight shall be subscriber members who are British subjects
of European race not domiciled in the Colony but resident
therein at the time of their appointment;
(b)two shall be subscriber members of European race, other
than British subjects, not domiciled in the Colony but
resident therein at the time of their appointment;
(c)two shall be subscriber members of Chinese race domiciled
in the Colony and resident therein at the time of their
appointment; and
(d)three shall be residential members of the Helena May at the
time 'Of their appointment.

3. Members of the Council shall hold office from the date of
the annual meeting at which they are elected until the newly elected
members come into office at the next annual general meeting.
Members of the council shall be eligible for re-election.
4. A subscriber member whose name is placed on the absent
members list or who is absent from the Colony for more than three
months at a time or who resigns, shall forthwith cease to be a
member of the council.

5. (1) Any two subscriber members shall be at liberty to
nominate a subscriber member to serve upon the council (having
first obtained her consent) and such nomination shall be lodged with
the secretary and posted on the notice board in the Helena May not
less than two clear days before the date of the annual general
meeting. .
(2) If the number of subscriber members so nominated does not
in any one of the classes specified in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c)
of paragraph 2 of this article exceed the number mentioned in that
sub-paragraph, the persons nominated in respect of that class may
be elected by resolution of the subscriber members at the annual
general meeting.
(3) If the number does exceed the number specified in any one
of the said sub-paragraphs, then balloting lists of the names of the
persons so nominated of that class shall be circulated and each
subscriber member present at the meeting shall hand in her list with
the number of names unerased prescribed by sub-paragraph (a), (b)
or (c) of paragraph 2 of this article as the case may be. The
persons gaining in the respective classes the greatest number of
votes shall be deemed to be elected.
. 6. Not less than fourteen days before the date fixed for the
annual general meeting of the subscriber members, the secretary
shall give notice convening a meeting of the residential members
to be held not less than seven days before the annual general
meeting for the purpose of electing three members of the council
from among their number.





Any two residential members shall be at liberty to nominate
residential members to serve upon the council (having first obtained
their consent).
Nominations shall be lodged with the secretary not less than two
clear days before the date for which the meeting is convened and
the names of those nominated shall be posted on the notice board.
If the number of persons nominated does not exceed three, the
members nominated may be elected by resolution at the meeting of
residential members.
If the number nominated does exceed three then balloting lists
giving the names of those nominated shall be distributed to the
residential members present at the meeting and they shall hand in
their lists with three names unerased and the persons nominated
and securing the greatest number of votes shall be deemed to be
elected.
A residential member who ceases to reside in the institute shall
forthwith cease to be a member of the council.

7. Whenever the seat of any member of the council shall
become vacant from any cause whatsoever, the remaining members
of the council may appoint some person to be a member of the
council in the place of the member whose seat has become vacant,
due regard being had to the proportion of members of different
categories prescribed by paragraph 2 of this article.
Such person shall hold her place in the council until the next
annual general meeting.

8. The council shall choose its own chairman and vice-
chairman from among the members.
Five members personally present shall be a quorum for a
meeting of the council.

9. The council may appoint an honorary secretary or an
honorary treasurer and a secretary, treasurer and such other officers
and servants as it may deem necessary and at such remuneration as
it shall think fit.

10. The council may form such sub-committees as it may think
fit for the management of the affairs of the Helena May and may
delegate to such sub-committees such powers as the council may
deem expedient but the decisions of such sub-committees shall be
referred to the council for ratification.

11. The council may make all necessary rules, not repugnant
to the Ordinance or the constitution, for the regulation and
management of the affairs of the corporation and of the Helena May
and in particular may make rules as to the conduct of the business
at meetings, the forms to be used for application for membership,
the number of persons to be admitted to membership, the amount
and time for payment of subscriptions and other charges, the
admission of and privileges to be extended to visitors and the
regulation of the conduct of residential and subscriber members, and
may from time to time amend, vary, rescind, or suspend any rules
wade and make or issue new rules.
All rules made by the council and any amendment, variation,
rescission or suspension thereof shall be entered in a book to be
kept by the secretary for that purpose, and such book shall be open
at all reasonable times to the inspection of all members and visitors.

ARTICLE IV-MEETINGS.
1. The annual general meeting of the residential and subscriber
members of the Helena May shall be held in the month of Ootober
in each year or as soon thereafter as may be possible, at the Helena
May on a date and at a time to be fixed by the council.





2. The council may whenever they consider it necessary or
advisable so to do and shall on the requisition in writing signed by
any twenty members forthwith proceed to convene an extraordinary
general meeting of the whole of the members or of the residential
members or the subscriber members according to the nature of the
businQss to be transacted.
A requisition under this paragraph shall state the nature of the
business for which the meeting is to be convened and a copy thereof
shall be posted in a prominent place in the Helena May together
with a copy of the notice convening the meeting.
3. A notice of the convening of the annual general meeting
and of every extraordinary general meeting shall be sent to every
member concerned, other than absent members, at her last known
address in the Colony not less than twenty-one days before the date
of such meeting, but the accidental omission to send such notice to
any of the members shall not invalidate any resolution passed or
any proceedings at such meeting.
4. Any member desiring to bring any proposal before an
annual or extraordinary general meeting shall give notice thereof in
writing to the secretary not less than seven days before such
meeting.

5. All decisions of the annual general meeting or of an
extraordinary general meeting shall be arrived at by a majority of
the votes of the members present at such meeting but no residential
member shall be competent to vote on the election of members of
the council other than the residential members of the council.
6. Twenty members personally present shall be a quorum for
an annual or extraordinary general meeting and no voting by proxy
shall be allowed.

ARTICLE V-AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION.
1. No proposal for the alteration, amendment or rescission of
the constitution shall be entertained unless notice thereof in writing
shall have been given to the secretary not less than fourteen days
before the date fixed for holding the annual general meeting.
The notice given to the secretary shall state the substance of
the proposed alteration, amendment or rescission, and a copy of
the notice shall be posted in a prominent place in the Helena May
not less than seven clear days before the annual general meeting.
On the consideration of a proposal for the alteration,
amendment or rescission of the constitution it shall be competent
for the meeting to consider and decide upon any amendment which
may be put to such proposal.
2. No alteration, amendment or rescission shall be made in
this constitution unless the same shall have been carried by a
majority consisting of at least two-thirds of the members present at
an annual general meeting of the members of the Helena May and
voting thereon.
3. No alteration, amendment or rescission of the constitution
shall come into operation until the same shall have been approved
of by the Governor.

ARTICLE VI-ACCOUNTS.
The council shall cause true accounts to be kept of the monies
received and expended and of the assets, credits and liabilities of the
corporation.
The accounts shall, be made up to the thirty-first day of August
in each year and the council shall cause a balance sheet containing





a summary of the property and liabilities of the corporation to be
prepared and audited.
Not less than seven days before each annual general meeting
a printed copy of the balance sheet, profit and loss account and
report by the council shall be sent to every member of the Helena
May except members whose names are on the absent members list.

ARTICLE VII-INDEMNITY.
Every member of the council and every officer or servant of
the corporation shall be indemnified by the corporation against, and
it shall be the duty of the corporation out of the funds of the
corporation to pay, all costs, losses and expenses which any such
member, officer or servant may incur or become liable to by reason
of any contract entered into or act or deed done as such member,
officer or servant or in any way in the discharge of his or her duties
and in connexion with which such member, officer, or servant has
not been guilty of any negligence, default, breach of trust or breach
of duty whatsoever.
3 of 1947. 9 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. [cf. Cap. 320.] Incorporation. 9 of 1950, Schedule. Powers of the corporation. [c.f. Cap. 319, s. 5] Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving. As amended by resolution of 26th October, 1950. (Cap. 284.) Resolution. 26.10.50. Resolution. 26.10.50. Resolution. 26.10.50. Resolution. 26.10.50. Resolution. 26.10.50. [Sch. Cont.] Resolution. 26.10.50. Resolution. 26.10.50. [Sch. Cont.] Resolution. 26.10.50. [Sch. Cont.]

3 of 1947. 9 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. [cf. Cap. 320.] Incorporation. 9 of 1950, Schedule. Powers of the corporation. [c.f. Cap. 319, s. 5] Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving. As amended by resolution of 26th October, 1950. (Cap. 284.) Resolution. 26.10.50. Resolution. 26.10.50. Resolution. 26.10.50. Resolution. 26.10.50. Resolution. 26.10.50. [Sch. Cont.] Resolution. 26.10.50. Resolution. 26.10.50. [Sch. Cont.] Resolution. 26.10.50. [Sch. Cont.]

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GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION (HONG KONG BRANCH) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 283.

GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION (HONG KONG BRANCH).

To further avd protect the activities of the Girl Guides
Association, and to Mcorporate the Hong Kong Branch
thereof.

[6th December, 1935.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Girl Guides
Association (Hong Kong Branch) Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'The Girl Guides Association' means The Girl Guides
Association incorporated by Royal Charter dated the
14th day of December, 1922 ;
'Girl Guide' includes Brownie, Gir) Guide, Ranger, and
Lone Guide, recognized as such under the rules of The
Girl Guide Association, and also all persons recognized
as officers under the rules of The Girl Guides Asso-
ciation.

3. No person other than The Girl GuidesS Associa-
tion, Hong Kong Branch, shall distribute or sell or expose
for sale-
(a)any badge, token or emblem specilleally adopted
by The Girl Guides Association for use by Girl
Guides; or
(b)any badge, token or emblem Containing the words
'Girl Guldes,' or tile characters
or the characters

4. No person shall, except witb the autliority of The
Girl Guides Association or The Girl Guides Association,
Hong Kong Branch, or with lawful authority or lawful
excuse, have in Iiis possession-
(a)any badge, token or emblem specificially adopted
by The Girl Guides Association for use by, Girl
Guides; or
(b) any badge, token or emblem containing the words
'Girl Guides' or the characters or the characters





5. No person shall without lawful authority or excuse
have in his possession-
(a)any device which so closely, resembles any badge,
token or emblem specifically adopted by The Girl
Guides Association for use by Girl Guides as to
lead to the belief that the device in question is
such badge, token or emblem; or
(b)any badge, token or emblem containing any words
or characters so closely, resembling any words or
characters ordinarily used to describe any Girl
Guide as to bc calculated to deceive or

6. No Girl Guide shall, by virtue of her wearin-
carrying or bearing any badge, token or emblem of The
Girl Guides Association or otherwise, attempt to enforce
or exercise authority otherwise than in accordance with the
rules of The Girl Guides Association.

7. (1) No person shall form, or work in connexion
with, or be a member of, any organization which without
authority from The Girl Guides Association claims or
purports to be 'Girl Guides', or any organization, other
that The Girl Guides Association, Hong Kong Branch,
which uses the title of 'Girl Guides' or the equivalent
Chinese title thereof, that is to say the Chinese characters
or the Chinese characters '
formerly used as the equivalent Chinese title, or any title
in any language, with or without additional words or
characters, which so closely resembles any of the said titles
as to be calculated to deceive or mislead, or any organiza-
tion which, by the use of any such title or otherwise, with-
out due authority purports or claims to be connected with
The Girl Guides Association or with The Girl Guides As-
sociation, Hong Kong Branch.

(2) No person shall, without the consent of the
Governor in Council, form, or work in connexion with or
be a member of, any organization, other than The Girl
Guides Association, Hong Kong Branch, which carries on
or is intended to carry on any work of a similar nature
to that carried on by The Girl Guides Association, Hong
Kong Branch.





8. Any person who contravenes any of the pro-
visions of this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction
be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars.

9. (1) The colony commissioner, the assistant colony
commissioner, the colony secretary, and the colony
treasurer for the time being of The Girl Guides Associa-
tion, Hong Kong Branch, shall be a body corporate,
hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name
of 'The Girl Guides Association, Hong Kong Branch',
and in that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall
and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and
shall and may have and use a common seal.

(2) When any person is appointed to the office of
colony commissioner, colony secretary, or colony treasurer
of The Girl Guides Association, Hong Kong Branch, such
person shall, within six weeks after her appointment or
within such further time as may be allowed by the
Governor, furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of
her appointment, and, in the case of a colony commis-
sioner, that the appointment has been made with the
consent of The Girl Guides Association first had and
obtained.

(3) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of
the Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished
to the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence
of such appointment.

10. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) the
corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,
purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any lands, buildings,
messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon mort-
gage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or
upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any government, municipality, corporation or
company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels,
good and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1),
the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property,
in the Colony unless it shall have previously obtained the
special consent of the Governor in Council in each case.





(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, ex-
change, partition, yield up, mortgage, dernise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, vessels, goods or chattels, which are
for the time being vested in or belonging to the corpora-
tion upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.

11. All property, vessels, goods and chattels, and all
rights which immediately before this Ordinance belonged
to or were vested in the members of the unincorporated
Girl Guides Association, Hong Kong Branch, as such, or
in any person in trust for or on behalf of such members,
are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation.

12. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of, and
shall be signed by, the colony cornmissioner for the time
being and the assistant colony commissioner for the time
being, instruments requiring the signature of the
corporation shall be signed by such commissioner and
assistant commissioner.

13. All matters of internal management shall be settled
and carried out in accordance with the constitution, by-
laws and rules of The Girl Guides Association, and with
any by-laws and rules made by the Hong Kong Branch
thereof tinder the rules of The Girl Guides Association.

14. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs
or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under
them, and nothing herein contained shall be deemed to
authorize any change in the general spirit of the movement
of The Girls Guides Association as incorporated by the
founder, Lieut-General Lord Baden-Powell, G.C.V.0,
K. C. B., F. R G.S., D.C.L., LL.D., and embodied in his book
'Girl Gulding' or in the 'Rules, Policy and Organiza-
tion' of The Girl Guides Association for the time being
in force.
51 of 1935. Short title. Interpretation. Distribution of badges. Unauthorized possession of badges. Possession of unauthorized badges. Wrongful exercise of authority. Unauthorized bodies. Penalty. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Vesting of property and rights. Internal management. Execution of documents. Saving the rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

51 of 1935. Short title. Interpretation. Distribution of badges. Unauthorized possession of badges. Possession of unauthorized badges. Wrongful exercise of authority. Unauthorized bodies. Penalty. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Vesting of property and rights. Internal management. Execution of documents. Saving the rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

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FOREIGN MISSION SISTERS OF ST. DOMINIC INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 282.

FOREIGN MISSION SISTERS OF ST. DOMINIC
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Regional Superior
in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of St.
Dominic commonly known as Maryknoll Sisters.

[27th July, 1934.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign
Alission. Sisters of St. Dominic Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Regional Superior for the time being in the
Colony of Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters of
St. Dominic shall be a corporation sole, hereinafter called
the corporation, and shall have the name of 'The Regional
Superior in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters
of St. Dominic' and in that name shall have perpetual
succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts
in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common
seal.

3. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) the
corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,
purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings,
messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever
and wheresoever situated, and also invest money's upon
mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements,
or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares
or securities of any government, municipality, corporation,
company or person, and also to purchase, acquire and
possess vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature
and kind soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (i),
the corporation shall not acquire any immovable propert ' s
in the Colony unless it shall have previously obtained the
special consent of the Governor in Council in each case.

(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey,, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,





funds, shares or securities, or vessels or other goods and
chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging
to the corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation
may seem fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever trans-
ferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall
in the event of the death of the Regional Superior for the
time being in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mission Sisters
of St. Dominic, or in the event of her ceasing to hold
office as such Regional Superior, pass to her successor in
such office when appointed.

5. (1) When any person is appointed to the office
of Regional Superior in Hong Kong of the Foreign Mis-
sion Sisters of St. Dominic such person shall within three
weeks after her appointment or within such further time
as may be allowed by the Governor furnish to the Governor
satisfactory evidence of her appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of
the Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished
to the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence
of such appointment.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of the
said Regional Superior or her attorney and shall be signed
by her or her attorney, and such signing shall be taken
as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds and
other instruments and all deeds, instruments and other
documents and writings requiring the signature of the
corporation shall be signed by such Regional Superior or
her attorney.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs
or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under
them.
20 of 1934. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Regional Superior. Execution of documents. Saving.

20 of 1934. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Regional Superior. Execution of documents. Saving.

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DOMINICAN MISSIONS INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 281.

DOMINICAN MISSIONS.

To provide for the incorporation of the Procuralor in this
Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East.

[7th May, 1886.]

1. This Ordinance may, be cited as the Dominican
Missions Ordinance.

2. The procurator in this Colony for the Dominican
Missions having placed in the hands of the Governor
satisfactory proof of his appointment shall be a body
corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall
have the name of 'The Procurator in Hong Kong for
the Doininican Missions in the Far East', and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and shall and may sue
and be sued in all courts in this ColonY, and shall and inav
have and use a common seal, and the said seal may break,
change, alter, and make anew as to the said corporation
may seem fit; and the said corporation shall have full power
to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy-
any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements of what
nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate in this
Colony, and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any
lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements in this Colony,
or on the mortgages or debentures, stock, funds, shares,
or securities of any corporation or company, carrying on
business or having an office in this Colony,, and also to
purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels
whatsoever; and the said corporation is hereby, further
empowered by deed under its seal, to grant, sell, convev,
assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, dernise, reassign,
transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stock,
funds, and securities, goods and chattels, that maN~ be
vesled in the said corporation, upon such terms as to the
said corporation may seem fit : Provided that due notice
of appointment as Procurator in this Colony,-, and of the
proof thereof having been placed in the hands of the
Governor, shall be given in the Gazette.





3. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
or the said corporation shall be sealed in the presence of
the said Procurator or his attorney duly authorized, and
shall also be signed by him. [4

4. Nothing, in this Ordinance shall affect or bc
deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His
Heirs or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or
corporate or of any other persons except such as are men-
tioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or
under thern. [5
Originally 14 of 1886. Fraser 9 of 1886. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procurator in the Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East. Use of seal of corporation. Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

Originally 14 of 1886. Fraser 9 of 1886. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procurator in the Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East. Use of seal of corporation. Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

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DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 280.

DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the chairman of the
Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage.

[28th Alay, 1892.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Diocesan
School and Orphanage Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan
School and Orphanage shall be a body corporate, and shall
have the name of 'The Chairman of the Committee of
the Diocesan School and Orphanage-, and by that name
shall have perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and
be sued in all courts, and shall and may have and use a
common seal, and the said seal may break, change, alter,
and make anew as to the said corporation may seem fit,
and the said corporation shall have full power to acquire,
accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enJoy any lands,
buildings, messuages, or tenements of what nature or kind
soever and wheresoever situate in this Colony, and also to
invest moneys on mortgage of any lands,buildings,
messuages, or tenements in this Colony, or on the mort-
gages or debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of
any corporation or company carrying on business or having
an office in this Colony, and also to purchase and acquire
all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever, and the said
corporation is hereby further empowered, by deed Under its
seal, to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up,
mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose
of any lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements, mort
gages, debentures, stocks, funds, and securities, goods and
chattels, vested in the said corporation on such terms as
to the said corporation may seem fit.

3. All deeds, documents, and other instruments
requiring the seal of the said corporation shall be sealed
therewith in the presence of the Chairman of the Committee
or his attorney duly authorized, and shall also be signed





by him or his attorney duly authorized, and such signing
shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due
scaling of such deeds, documents, and other instruments. [4

4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs
or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under
them.
Originally 10 of 1892. Fraser 3 of 1892. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage. Use of seal of corporation. Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

Originally 10 of 1892. Fraser 3 of 1892. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage. Use of seal of corporation. Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

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DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF THE CANOSSIAN INSTITUTE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 279.

DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF THE
CANOSSIAN INSTITUTE INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporallon of the Mother Superloress in
this Colony of the Society of the of Daughters of Charity
of the Canossian Institute by which the institution known
as the Italian Convent is carried on.

[29th October, 1915.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Datighters of,
Charity of the Canossian Institute Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Mother Superioress in this Colony of the
Society of the Daughters of Charity of the Canossian
Institute shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the
corporation, and shall have the have the name of 'The Molher
Superloress of the Daughters of Charily of the Canossian
Institute (Hong Kong)' and by that nane shall and may sue
and be sued in all courts in this Colony and shall and may
have and use a common seal.

3. The corporation shall have full power-
(a)subject to the licence of the Governor having been
previously obtained in each case to acquire, accept
leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature
or kind soever and wheresoever situate in this
Colony;
(b)to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and
chattels whatsoever;
(c)to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands, build-
ings, messuages or tenements in this Colony or in
or upon such other securities or investments as it
may think expedient;
(d)by deed under its seal or otherivise to grant, sell,
convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage,
demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise deal with or
dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages or tene-
ments, mortgages, debentures, securities, shares,
goods and chattels for the time being vested in it on
such terms as may seem expedient to it.





4. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the person
who is for the time being Mother Superioress in this Colony
of the said Society or of her attorneY duly authorized and
such deeds and instruments and all other documents, instru-
ments and writings requiring the signature of the corporation
shall bc signed by such Mother Superioress or her attorney.
[5

5. (1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office
of Mother Superioress in this Colony, of the said Society,,
such person shall within three weeks after her appointment
or within such further time as may be allowed by the Cover-
nor furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of' her
appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazelle under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of
such appointment. [6

6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them. [7
Originally 26 of 1915. Fraser 26 of 1915. Short title. Incorporation of the Mother Superioress in Hong Kong of the Society of the Daughters of Charity of the Canossian Institute. Powers of the corporation. Execution of documents. Appointment of Mother Superioress.

Originally 26 of 1915. Fraser 26 of 1915. Short title. Incorporation of the Mother Superioress in Hong Kong of the Society of the Daughters of Charity of the Canossian Institute. Powers of the corporation. Execution of documents. Appointment of Mother Superioress.

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COLONIAL TREASURER INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 278.

COLONIAL TREASURER INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Financial Secretary
under the title of The Colonial Treasitrer Incorporated.

[17th October, 1930.]

1. This Ordinance rna y be cited as the Colonial
Treasurer Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The person for the time being performing the
duties of the office of Financial Secretary shall be a corpora-
tion sole, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have
the name of 'The Colonial Treasurer Incorporated', and
by that name shall have perpetual succession, with a
capacity to acquire, whether as purchaser, mortgagee or
otherwise, and hold ill that name lands, Government
securities, shares in any public company, debentures, stocks,
funds, securities for money and real and personal properly
of every description, to sue and be sued, to grailt, sell,
convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up,
mortgage, demise, reconvey, reassign, transfer or otherwise
deal with and dispose of any property of any nature. what-
soever, to execute deeds, using an official seal, to enter into
engagements binding on himself and his successors in office
and to do all other acts necessary or expedient to be done
in the execution of the duties of his office.

3. Notwithstanding any change in the occupant of the
corporation, whether on account of death, departure on
leave, return from leave, temporary employment elsewhere,
resumption of duties, new appointment or other cause what-
soever, and notwithstanding the nature of the property or
rights, all property and rights whatsoever, transferred to
the corporation, or to any occupant of the corporation as
such, in any manner whatsoever, shall vest or remain vested
in the corporation so as to be capable of being dealt vith
bv the occupant of the corporation for the time being and
shall not vest in any occupant in his natural or personal
capacity or pass to the personal representative of any
occupant,





4. Any deed purporting to be scaled with the said
official seal and to be signed by the occupant of the cor-
poration for the time being, and any other documents,
instruments and writings purporting to be so signed, shall
be receivable in evidence of the particulars stated in such
document.

5. If any question arises as to who is or was at any
time the occupant of the corporation for the time being,
a certificate under the hand of the Colonial Secretary shall
be conclusive evidence for all purposes whatsoever as to
the person who is or was the occupant.

6. (1) Where at any tinie by reason of the death of
any person, being a person to whom, as Governor or as
an officer of the Government of this Colony, any property
of any nature whatsoever has been transferred for and on
behalf of the said Government, the legal estate or any,
interest in such property has passed or passes on such death
to the personal representative of such person, it shall be
lawful for the Governor at any time to declare such legal
estate or interest vested in the corporation and thereupon
such legal estate or interest shall vest accordingly without
any conveyance, assignment or transfer.

(2) In like manner where at any time the legal estate
or any interest in any property of any nature whatsoever
is held or possessed for and on behalf of the said Govern-
ment by any person who, having held office in the Colony
as a Governor or as a Government officer, has vacated his
office otherwise than by death, it shall be lawful for the
Governor at any time to declare such legal estate or interest
vested in the corporation and thereupon'such legal estate
or interest shall vest accordingly without any conveyance,
assignment or transfer.

(3) A certificate under the hand of the Colonial Secre-
tary shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes what-
soever as to the interest of the Government of this Colony,
as to any such death or vacating of office, as to the making
by the Governor of any such declaration and as to the
vesting of the legal estate or interest in the property therein
mentioned in the corporation.
Originally 15 of 1930. Fraser 15 of 1930. Short title. Incorporation of the Colonial Treasurer, and powers 39 & 40 Vict, c. 18, s. 1. Property and rights transferred to corporation to vest or remain vested in corporation and not to pass to personal representative of occupant. Deeds, etc., to be receivable. In evidence. 39 & 40 Vict, c. 18, s. 1. Evidence as to the identity of the occupant of the corporation. Vesting of legal estate or interest in corporation in certain cases.

Originally 15 of 1930. Fraser 15 of 1930. Short title. Incorporation of the Colonial Treasurer, and powers 39 & 40 Vict, c. 18, s. 1. Property and rights transferred to corporation to vest or remain vested in corporation and not to pass to personal representative of occupant. Deeds, etc., to be receivable. In evidence. 39 & 40 Vict, c. 18, s. 1. Evidence as to the identity of the occupant of the corporation. Vesting of legal estate or interest in corporation in certain cases.

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CHURCH OF ENGLAND TRUST ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 277.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND TRUST.

To incorporate a body of trustees capable of holding property
for the purposes of the Church of England, and to
Provide for the performance of divine worship according
to the rites and ceretnonies of the Church of England,
and for ceritiln objects ancillary to the aforesaid objects.

[18th January, 1930.]

I. WHEREAS Saint John's Cathedral Church was erected
on Crown land partly by means of private subscriptions and
partly by means of public moneys and has since been main-
tained and kept up and divine worship has been performed
therein and elsewhere in the Colony in accordance with the
provisions of certain Ordinances and it is expedient to provide
for a continuance of the performance of such divine worship
and services in accordance with the rites and ceremonies of
the Church of England :
2. AND WHEREAS the said Cathedral Church is now
vested in and administered by an incorporated Church Body
under the name of the Trustees of Saint John's Cathedral
Church in Hong Kong:
3. AND WHEREAS Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon,
and buildings connected therewith were erected on Crown
land out of funds generously furnished by the late Sir
Catchick Paul Chapter, C.M.G., the services at the said Church
to be conducted according to the rites and ceremonies of the
Church of England :
4. AND WHEREAS the trustees of Saint John's Cathedral
Church in Hong Kong in addition to the powers conferred
on them by the Saint John's Cathedral Church Ordinance,
1899, were authorized by the Church Property Vesting
Ordinance, 1904, to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take,
hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements
and any other property of what kind or nature soever and
wheresover situate for the purpose of endowing, supporting,
maintaining, carrying on or otherwise promoting the work
of the Church of England in Hong Kong or in China,
whether such work should be of a religious, educational or
social nature or otherwise:,
5. AND WHEREAS it is deemed expedient that all lands,
buildings, messuages or tenements, property, funds and





endowments (save as hereinafter mentioned) of the Church
of England in the Colony and elsewhere within the Diocese
of Victoria, Hong Kong, shall as far as possible be trans-
ferred to or vested in one central incorporated authority which
may administer the same for the purpose of endowing, sup-
porting, maintaining, carrying on or otherwise promoting the
work of the Church of England in Hong Kong or elsewhere
in the Diocese, whether such work be of a religious, educa-
tional or social nature, or otherwise :

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Church of
England Trust Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'Archdeacon of Hong Kong' means the clergyman holding
the Bishop's licence to such office;
'Bishop' means the Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong;
'chapel of ease' means a chapel under a mother church
consecrated for the performance of public worship
according to the liturgy of the Church of England, and
so recognized by the Bishop, the officiating minister
whereof has not a separate cure of souls;
'church body' means the trustees of Saint John's Cathedral
Church in Hong Kong as heretofore constituted ;
'comniissary' means a person nominated by the Bishop of
Victoria, Hong Kong, to act for him or in his stead
in accordance with the terms of a written authority signed
by the Bishop, or in the event only of the voidance of
the see, a person nominated bY, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury;
'Dean' means the clergyman in charge of Saint John's
Cathedral and holding the Bishop's licence to such office;
'Diocesan Conference' rneans the assembly of clergy and
laity of the Church of England for the Diocese, con-
stituted according to such rules as have been approved
by the Bishop for the time being;
'diocese' means the area over which the Bishop of Victoria,
Hong Kong, has ecclesiastical authoritY
'incumbent' means a clergyman with a of souls in
charge of a church and holding the Bishop's licence
thereto ;
'trustees' means the trustees appointed by or under the
provisions of section 3.





Trustees.

3.(1) (a) There sliall be a body of trustees which,
subject to the other provisions of this Ordinance,
shall consist of-
(i) The Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong;
(ii) The Dean of Saint John's Cathedral;
(iii) The Vicar of Saint Andrew's Church, Kow-
loon;
(iv) The Vicar of Christ Church, Kowloon Tong,
and their successors in office for the time being,
together with two lay trustees representing Saint
John's Cathedral, two lay trustees representing
Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon, and two lay
trustees representing Christ Church, Kowloon
Tong, and thereafter the persons for the time being
duly elected and appointed in place of the above
or any of them as their successors in accordance
with regulations made under this Ordinance.
(b) In the case of every other church to which this
Ordinance for the time being applies and whose
incumbent has a separate cure of souls, the incum-
bent and two duly elected lay representatives of such
church shall be members of the body of trustees.
(c)All lay trustees shall bc actual communicants of the
Church of England, of twenty-one years of age and
upwards, of either sex, and of British nationality,
and shall be elected at the annual church meetings
as provided for in regulations made under this
Ordinance.
(d)In the event of the absence on leave of any clerical
trustee other than the Bishop it shall be lawful for
the trustees in their discretion to appoint temporarily
the clergyman in charge of the church concerned.

(2) The Bishop shall have power to give and revoke a
dormant commission to any clergynlan of the Church of
England to be a trustee, and to act for the Bishop in accor-
dance with the terms of the dormant commission, during any
absence of the Bishop from the Colony and during any in-
capacity of the Bishop, and to be a trustee and to act in the
stead of the Bishop in the case of voidance of the see. No
such dormant commission shall take active effect on the
ground of the incapacity of the Bishop or the voidance of the





see until it has been published in the Gazette by the Colonial
Secretary with the approval of the Governor in Council, at
the request of the remaining trustees then in the Colony.
When a dormant commission has tahen active effect upon
such publication on the ground of the incapacity of the Bishop
it shall continue to have active effect until the publication of
a notice in the Gazette by the Colonial Secretary, at the
request of the Bishop and of the majority, of the remaining
trustees then in the Colony,, suspending such active effect.
Unless previously revoked any such commission shall con-
tinue in force, either as a dormant commission or in active
effect as the case may by, after the voidance of the see until
the arrival of a new Bishop or until a new commissary has
been nominated by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
(3)(a) The Bishop or his commissary shall be, chairman
of the trustees.
(b)A meeting of the trustees shall be held at least once
in every calendar vear, and not more than fifteen
months after the holding of the last preceding
meeting.
(c) The Bishop or his commissary and at least one-half
of the remaining trustees shall form a ciuortt)ii.
(d) No act or decision of the trustees shall be valid unless
approved b), more than half of the whole number
of trustees.
(e) If any act be done or discretion be exercised by the
Majority of the trustees, or if any, instrument be
executed in pursuance thereof, no such act, discre-
tion or instrument shall be questioned on the ground
that the other trustees, or any of thern, did not concur
or join therein, or objected thereto.

4. (1) All changes in the constitution of the trustees
shall be notified to the Colonial Secretary and published bv
him in the Gazette.
(2) No such change shall be deemed to have been made
unless it has been so published in the Gazelle.
(3) The production of a copy of the Gazette containing
any such notification shall be prima facie evidence as to the
constitution of the trustees.
(4) The trustees shall when required by the Governor
furnish to him satisfactory proof of the succession, election or
appointment of any new member thereof.





5. (1) The trustees shall be a body corporate under the
name of 'The Trustees of the Church of England 1n the
Diocese of Victoria, Hong Kong', and by that name shall
have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued
in all courts and shall and may have and use a common seal
and may break, change, alter and make anew the said seal.

(2) The trustees shall have power to acquire, accept
leases of, purchase, take, hold and en'oy any lands, buildings,
messuages or tenements of what nature and kind soever and
wheresoever situate, and also invest moneys upon mortgage
of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the
mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of
any government, municipality, corporation or company, and
also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of
what nature or kind soever, for the purpose of endowing,
supporting, maintaining, carrying on or otherwise promoting
the work of the Church of England in Hong Kong or else-
where in the diocese whether such work be of a religious,
educational or social nature or otherwise.

(3) The trustees, subject to the provisions of section 6,
shall further have power by deed or writing under their
common seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield
up, mortgage, demise, reconvey, reassign, transfer or
otherwise dispose of or deal with any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, goods and chattels or other property
which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the
trustees, upon such terms as to the trustees may seem fit:
Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed
so as to authorize any breach of trust on the part of the
trustees.

(4) All deeds and other documents requiring the seal
of the trustees shall be scaled with such seal in the presence
of the Bishop or his commissary and shall be s)-ned by
such Bishop or commissary and by two trustees.

6. (1) Saint John's Cathedral Church and the
precincts thereof (a plan of which, signed by the Director
of Public Works and sealed with the seal of the Colony, was
deposited at the Land Office on the 29th day of April, 1892)
together with all buildings, rights, easements and appurten-
ances thereunto belonging, and together with all the estate,





right, title and interest of the church body as heretofore
constituted shall vest in the trustees in fee simple for the
sole and express purpose of a church and to the intent that
divine worship and the services ustial in the Church of
England shall be therein performed and carried on in
accordance with the rites and ceremonies of the said Church
sub ject nevertheless to the road and right of way delineated
and coloured red oil the said plan which road shall be
maintained as heretofore by the Government: Provided
always that if at any tirne the church ceases to be Lised as
a church for divine worship and the services usual in the
Church of England cease to be performed and carried oil
therein in accordance with the said rites and ceremonies,
the church and the precincts thereof shall revert to and
become the absolute property of the Crown unless the same,
be sold or otherwise disposed of with the. consent ill writillo.
of the Governor.

(2) All that piece or parcel of ground known and
registered in the Land Office as Kowloon Inland Lot No.
1153 and the church building and buildings erected thereon,
together with all rights, easements and appurtenances
theretinto belonging and together with all the estate, right,
title and interest held upon trust by, the church body as
heretofore constituted, shall vest in the trustees for the
residue now unexpired of the term of seventy-five years
created therein by, the Crown lease thereof, subject to the
payment of the rent reserved by the said Crown lease and
the performance and observance of the said crown lesse's covenallts
and conditions therein contained, upon trust to permit the
said premises to be used by the clergyman for the time
being in charge of the services of the said church (or if
there be no clergyman in charge by any other
of the Church of England who may be approved by, the
Bishop) for the conduct of stich services in accordance with
the rites and ceremonies Of the Church of England and for
such other purposes not inconsistent with the provisions of
the said Crown lease as may, be directed by the church
council duly constituted : Provided always that the trustees
shall not be deemed personally liable for any pavilients of
money in excess of that provided or available for the
purposes of the church : And provided that the said
premises or any part thereof shall not be used for any other





purpose whatever than for a church the services of which
shall be conducted according to the rites and ceremonies of
the Church of England, and for the erection of schools or
parsonage or other buildings in connexion with such
church, without the previous licence or consent of His
Majesty the King, His Heirs, Successors or Assigns,
signified in writing by the Governor of Hong Kong. or
other person duly authorized in that behalf: And provided
that the said premises or any part thereof shall not be let,
underlet, mortgaged, assigned or otherwise parted with
without the previous consent of His said Majesty, His Ileirs,
Successors or Assigns, signified as aforesaid or upon other
terms 'and provisions than set forth in the said Crown lease.

(3) The furniture, fittings, fixtures, chattels and effects
held for the use of Saint John's Cathedral and
of Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon, and all the
right, title, interest, property, claim and demand therein
or thereto of the church body as heretofore constituted shall
vest in the trustees absolutely. [(4)

(4) The sum of ten thousand dollars, the endowment
fund for the use of Saint John's Cathedral Hall, and the
securities or investments now representing the same now
vested in the church body under the declaration of trust
dated the 3rd day of February, 1922, shall be transferred
to and vested in the trustees absolutely subject to the
trusts and provisions of the said declaration of trust. [(5)

(5) All books, papers and other documents hitherto
kept at Saint John's Cathedral or Saint Andrew's Church or
belonging or appertaining thereto respectively, and all
moneys belonging or due or owing to Saint John's
Cathedral or the church body as heretofore constituted or to
Saint Andrew's Church or the vestry thereof, shall vest in
the trustees absolutely. [(6)

(6) All memorials in or about Saint John's Cathedral
and in or about Saint Andrew's Church shall be under the
care and custody of the trustees. [(7)

7. (1) The trustees shall delegate the care and
maintenance of any land, building, furniture, fittings,
chattels, effects, records and memorials and the expenditure





of income appertaining to Saint jolin's Cathedral Church
and Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon, respectively, and
provision for the administration of the services to be per-
formed therein, to the respective church councils of such
churches to be appointed in manner hereinafter provided.

(2) The trustees may make similar delegation of their
powers in the case of any other church to which this Ordin-
ance for the time being applies.

(3) Every such delegation shall be by an instrument in
writing signed by the Bishop or his commissary and two of
the trustees which shall be in the form provided in the
Schedule and shall specify the property committed to the care
of each church council and what powers and duties the church
council shall have in the niatter of making alteration or
addition thereto : But no alterations by way of addition or
diminution to the fabric or utensils or ornaments of such
churches shall be made without the previous written consent
of the Bishop.

(4) The trustees shall have power by an instrument
signed as aforesaid to revoke or arnend any letter of
delegation.

8. (1) Whenever a vacancy occurs or is expected to
occur in any cure of souls the trustees shall appoint a board
of patronage, to be constituted as hereinafter provided, which
shall appoint a clergyman for institution to such cure
when vacant and shall return his name to the trustees together
with the agreed terms of appointment. The trustees shall
before entering into any contract with such clergyman obtain
the written approval of the Bishop or in the case of the
incapacity of the Bishop of his commissary of such appoint-
ment. If no notice of appointment be returned to the
trustees and by them to the Bishop or his commissary within
six months after a vacancy in any cure it shall be competent
for the Bishop or his commissary to appoint.

(2) Such board of patronage shall consist of the Bishop
or his commissary, who shall be chairn-ian, the Archdeacon
of Hong Kong, one lay representative of the trustees and
four lay representatives of the church council concerned :
Provided that if the Archdeacon is also the incumbent of the
church in which the vacancy is expected to occur he shall not





be a member of the board: Provided also that when a
vacancy occurs or is expected to occur in the office of Dean
two additional members (one clerical to represent the clergy
and one lay to represent the laity) shall be appointed by the
Diocesan Conference or in default of such appointment in
such manner as the trustees for the tirne being may approve.

(3) The time and manner of the summoning and meeting
of such board and the mode of its procedure sliall be deter-
mined by the board itself, subject to any direction that may
be given by, the trustees. The Bishop or his commissary and
not less than three representatives Of the Church council con-
cerned shall constitute a quorum.

(4) The fixing of the salary of the clergyman in charge
of any church shall be determined by a sub-committee con-
sisting of not more than six to be appointed by the church
council concerned which shall report to the board its decision,
but such decision shall be subject to the approval of the
board.

(5) The question of the renewal or termination of the
agreement of the clergyman in charge of any church shall be
decided by a board of patronage, constituted as hereinbefore
provided, to be appointed by the trustees ad hoc which board
shall report its decision to the trustees : Provided that no
dismissal except on the expiration of an agreenient shall be
valid without the written approval of the Bishop or in the
case of the incapacity of the Bishop of his commissary.

Regulations.

9. (1) It shall be lawful for the trustees to. make
regulations for all or any of the following rnatters-
(a)the mode of filling tip casual vacancies among their
number;
(b)the holding of meetings of the trustees and the con-
duct of business thereat;
(c)the election and tenure of office of an auditor and the
appointment and tenure of office of a treasurer and
secretary and. the mode of filling up casual vacancies
among such officers;
(d)the regulation of the church councils constituted by
section io, and the constitution and regulation of





church councils for any church to which this Ordin-
ance for the time being applies;
(e) the keeping of accounts by church councils;
the care, maintenance and administration of chapels
of ease ;
(g) all other matters relating to the affairs of the trustees.

(2) No amendment of the regulations shall apply in the
case of an), particular church council until such amendment
has been adopted at a rneeting, of the qualified and duty,
enrolled electors of the church in question.

Church councils.
10. There shall be a Saint John's Cathedral church
council and a Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon, church
council, and such other church councils as may be con-
stituted by regulations made under this Ordinance. The
primary duties of every such council, whether constituted by
or under this Ordinance, shall be to co-operate with the
incumbent in the initiation, conduct and development of work
in the church concerned in accordance with the regulations
for church councils for the time being in force and to exercise
the powers conferred upon thern in accordance with section
: Provided always that all matters connected with the
religious services of the churches sliall be under the
immediate direction and management of the respective in-
cumbents or clergymen in charge subject nevertheless to the
control of the Bishop : And provided also that no change
in the customary arrangement and conduct of the religious
services in any church shall be made arbitrarily, and without
the consent of the church council, and that the incumbent or
clergyman in charge shall inform the council before making
any change. Any question which maY then or from time to
time arise between the incumbent or clergyman in charge
and the church council with regard to any such change shall
be referred to the Bishop who, after such consultation as lie
thinks best both with the incumbent or clergyman in charge
and the council, shall make orders thereon against which
there shall be no appeal.

Miscellaneous.

11. The provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to
every church of the Church of England now or hereafter
established in the Colony.





12. The right of visitation of churches shall lie with the
Bishop and, under the general or special authority of the
Bishop, with the Archdeacon of Hong Kong, who may report
to the trustees any irregularities in regard to the fulfilment
of the duties of any particular church council in matters
delegated to it by the trustees.

13. The Bishop shall have the right of using the
Cathedral, upon due notice being given, for ordinations, con-
firmations and other special services, of determining the order
and form of such services, and of preaching and celebrating
the Holy Communion therein.

14. So long as in annual suni of not less than five
hundred dollars is paid to the trustees for the use of Saint
John's Cathedral Church by the troops constituting the
garrison, the trustees shall allow and arrange for the use of
such church by the said troops for one service at least on
every Sunday in the year, but shall not be bound to provide
any clergyman to perform the same.


15. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appropriate
such proportion of any sum which may be voted by the Legis-
lative Council for general ecclesiastical or religious purposes
as he may deem proper to the trustees, and thereupon the
Dean or other clergyman nominated by the trustees, if such
sum is accepted by the trustees, shall be bound when so
required to provide for all requisite religious services and
ministrations of the Church of England at the prisons and
Government hospitals.

16. (1) The trustees shall have power to decide as to
the erection of memorial tablets or other memorials in any
church within the scope of this Ordinance or in the precincts
thereof, subject in each case to the written approval of the
Bishop.

(2) The trustees, subject to the written consent of the
Bishop, may order the removal of any monument, tablet or
other memorial in any church or the precincts thereof which
has become ruinous, dilapidated or unsightly if the donor
thereof or his representatives cannot be found or will not
properly repair and maintain it to the satisfaction of the trus-
tees : Provided always that three months' notice of such





intended removal shall be given in writing to the donor or
his representatives if he or they can be found, and if not a
notice signifying such intended removal shall be posted for
three months in the western porch of the church concerned.

(3) The trustees shall have power, subject in each case
to the written approval of the Bishop, to make alterations ill
a church or its furniture and to add to or remove ornaments
therein.

17. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the Chater (Saint John's Cathedral Church) Endow-
ment Fund or the Chater (Saint Andrew's Church) Endow-
ment Fund, save that for the purposes of such funds the
trustees shall be substituted for the church body and vestry
respectively and shall authorize the payment of tile inconle
of such funds to the council of the Church concerned.

18. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them,

SCHEDULE. [s. 7.]

LETTER OF DELEGATION
issued pursuant to section 7 of The Church of
England Trust Ordinance.
(Chapter 277 of the Revised Edition of Ordinances.)
To the CHURCH COUNCIL OF CHURCH.
THE TRUSTEEs appointed under The Church of England Trust
Ordinance, hereby delegate the care and maintenance of the
following property to the above mentioned Church Council, namely-

and empower the said Church Council to exercise the following
powers and duties, namely-

GIVEN under the hands of the Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong,
and of two of the trustees this day of
19
............................... Bishop.

Trustees.
...............................





REGULATIONS FOR TRUSTEES' MEETINGS.
(Cap. 277, Section 9.)
(Ordinance No. 2 of 1930.)
[6th Feb., 1931.]

1. In the event of death, incapacity to act, or resignation, of
any lay trustee, or in the case of a trustee being absent for six
months or more, the trustees shall request the church council repre-
sented by such absent trustee to nominate some qualified person to
act in his or her place until the next annual church meeting.
2. The statutory meeting shall be held as soon as possible after
the annual church meetings, and further meetings at such other
tirnes as business may require.
3. A the statutory meeting the trustees may elect a treasurer,
a secretary. and an auditor for the ensuing year. Any casual
vacancies in such offices shall be filled either at a special meeting
called for that purpose or by consent of the trustees signified in
writing on a paper circulated,for that purpose.
4. Chater (Cathedral) and Chater (St. Andrew's) Endowment
Funds. In respect of investments under the Chater (Cathedral) and
Chater (St. Andrew's) Endowment Funds, the procedure shall be that
before the statutory meeting. the honorary treasurer shall obtain
from the trustees of the Chater Endowment Funds a revised state-
ment of investments then representing the trust funds, and copies
of such statement shall be forwarded to the respective church councils
and submitted to the trustees at the statutory meeting.
5. Church councils: accounts and reports. Prior to the
statutory meeting, the honorary treasurer shall obtain statements
of accounts from the respective church councils, and forward the
same to the trustees at least a week before the statutorj

REGULATIONS FOR CHURCH COUNCILS.
(Cap. 277, Section 9.)
[18th Jan., 1930.]

1, In these regulations the expression 'church councils' means
the bodies constituted under that name by or under the Church of
England Trust Ordinance.

2. Every church council shall consist of-
(a) the incumbent or clergyman in charge;
(b) the senior licensed assistant clergyman, if any;
(c) such number of lay representatives (who may be of either
sex) as the annual church meeting may from time to time
decide. Such lay representatives must be actual com-
municant members of the Church of England of twenty-
one years of age and upwards and not entered upon the
electoral roll of any other church in the Diocese. No
candidate may be elected who has not previously consented
to serve. The number may be altered from time to time
by a resolution passed at an annual church meeting of
the church concerned but so that the alteration shall not
take effect till the year following the date at which it is
made;





REGULATIONS FOR CHURCH COUNCILs-cont.

(d)co-opted members if the church council concerned so decides
not exceeding in number one-fifth of the elected lay repre-
sentatives and being either in holy orders or actual lay
communicant members of the Church of England of either
sex and of twenty-one years of age and upwards.
3. The election of lay representatives to the church council
shall take place at the annual church meeting of the church con-
cerned.
4. Lay representatives and co-opted members shall continue
in office until the next annual church meeting unless in the mean-
while they vacate office by death, absence for six months, incapacity
to act or resignation.

5. In the event of death, absence for a period of six months,
incapacity to 'act or resignation of any lay representative or co-
opted member on a church council the remaining members may
appoint some other qualified person to act in his or her place
until the next annual church meeting.

6. Meetings of church councils shall be in accordance with
the rules of procedure set forth in the Appendix hereto.

7. Every church council shall appoint a secretary and
treasurer as provided for in the rules of procedure.

8. In addition to the powers conferred by the Church of
England Trust Ordinance, each church council shall have power-
(a)to frame an annual budget of moneys required for the
maintenance of the work of the church for which it is
appointed and otherwise, and to take such steps as it
thinks necessary for raising, collecting and allocating such
Toneys;
(b) jointly with the incumbent to determine the objects to
which all moneys to be given or collected in the church
shall be allocated, subject to the directions contained in
the Book of Common Prayer as to the disposal of money
given at the offertory, and to determine the mode of
collection of all donations and the fees to be taken for
marriages, burials and other services;
(c) jointly with the incumbent to appoint and dismiss and (if
so authorized by the trustees in their letters of delega-
tion) to pay the salaries of assistant chaplains, organists
and subordinate officials, and to determine the conditions
of the tenure of their offices or of their employrnent:
Provided that no appointment or dismissal of a clergyman
shall be valid unless approved in writing by the Bishop;
(d)to make representation to the Bishop with regard to any
matter affecting the welfare of the church concerned;
(e)to make regulations regarding all or any of the following
matters-
(i) holding of meetings of the church council and the
conduct of business thereat;
(ii) keeping of accounts of moneys received and
expended by the church councils;
(iii) all other matters relating to the affairs of the
church council: Provided that no regulation shall be valid
until it has been approved by an annual or special church
meeting: And provided that no regulation shall be incon-






REGULATIONS FOR CHURCH COUNCILs-cont.

sistent with the provisions of the Church of England Trust
Ordinance, or with any regulation made thereunder by the
trustees.
9. Every church council shall furnish to the annual church
meeting as provided for in regulation 17 an account made up to
the 31st December in the year immediately preceding such meeting
setting out the incol and expenditure of the church council during
the year together with a statement of the funds and property,
if any, remaining in its hands at the date of the account. Such
account and statement having been duly audited shall together
with a report upon the fabric, goods and ornaments of the church
be submitted for approval at such meeting or at any adjournment
thereof and the said account, statement and report if approved
shall be signed by the chairman of the meeting and shall be
forthwith published and affixed on or near the principal door of
the church and any other conspicuous place or places in the parish
at the discretion of the church council. A copy of the account,
statement and report shall be furnished by the church council to
the trustees.
10. Every church council shall cause to be kept proper books
of registry of all baptisms and marriages solemnized in the church
and of all burials performed by the clergy.

11. Every church council shall provide a fire-proof safe for the
safe custody of all books of registry belonging to the church.

12, Every church council shall provide and keep up to date
an inventory of all church property for which it may be respon-
sible.
13. A church council may, if so authorized by the trustees
in the letter of delegation, and in accordance with any regulations
laid down by the Bishop, permit the erection or order the removal
of any monument, tablet or other memorial in the church or in
the precincts thereof, but no such monument, tablet or other
memorial shall be erected or removed without the previous written
consent of the Bishop.
14. A church council may, if so authorized by the trustees
in the letter of delegation, make alterations in the church or its
furniture, and may add to or renew ornaments to or in the church,
but no such alteration, addition or renewal shall be made without
the previous written consent of the Bishop.
15. (1) If any difficulty arises with respect to the conduct of
any church council for which provision is not made in the Church
of England Trust Ordinance, or in the regulations, or in the event
of a church council and an incumbent being unable to agree as
to any matter in which their joint action is required, the Bishop
may give such directions as may appear to him to be necessary.
(2) On representation being made to the Bishop by a majority
of the lay members of a church council or by one-tenth of the
electors on the electoral roll, and if such representation is deemed
by the Bishop to show sufficient cause for the same, the Bishop
shall convene a special meeting of the church council or church
meeting, and shall either take the chair himself or appoint a
chairman to preside at such meeting.

Electoral roll.
16. (1) A roll of electors shall be formed by every church
council on which persons claiming to be qualified electors in the





REGULATIONS FOR CHURCH COUNCILS-COnt.

church concerned shall if their claim is allowed be entered and
they shall remain on the roll as long as their title to be qualified
electors in the church concerned continues.
(2) The initial rolls shall be formed by the Dean for the
Cathedral and the Vicar of Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon ' for
Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon, and in the case of other churches
by the respective incumbents.
(3) Each roll shall be kept and revised by the church council
concerned when it is constituted. It shall be annually revised not
less than twenty-eight days before the annual chdreh meeting.
Notice of such revision shall be affixed at the place or places
hereinafter prescribed with respect to notice convening the said
annual church meeting fourteen days at least before such revision
takes place.
(4) The roll shall be published by being affixed at or near the
principal door of the church concerned in such manner as the
church council (or in the case of an initial roll, as the incumbent)
shall appoint and except in the case of the initial roll shall be
open for the enrolment of new voters continuously up to fourteen
days before the annual church meeting.
(5) Qualified electors are persons of either sex of eighteen
years and upwards who-
(a)are baptized and are members of the Church of England
or a Church in communion therewith; and
(b)do not belong to any religious body which is not in coni-
munion with the Church of England; and
(c)pre not entered upon the electoral roll of any other church
in the Diocese; and
(d) have signed the declaration set forth hereunder.
I,
being a worshipper at [name of church]
declare that I have attained the age of eighteen years and reside at
and ant a member of the Church of England or a Church in
communion therewith and do not belong to any religious body which
is not in communion with the Church of England and that I am not
entered upon the electoral roll of any other church in the Diocese.
Dated this day of 19
(Signed) ...........................................
(6) The number of qualified persons on the electoral roll shall
be reported each year to the Bishop or his commissary within
one month after the annual church meeting.

Annual church meeting.
17. (1) There shall be held annually in connexion with each
church before 15th February the annual church meeting of qualified
and duly enrolled electors-
(a)for electing representatives to the board of the trustees
of the Church of England in the Diocese of Victoria, Hong
Kong;
(b) for electing the church council;
(c) for electing representatives to the Diocesan Conference;
(d) for electing sidesmen;
(e) for electing an auditor;
(f) forreceiving from the church council and considering-
(i) a copy or copies of the electoral roll;
(ii) an annual report on its proceedings;
(iii) a statement of the financial a*Tairs of the church;
(g) for the transaction of any other business connected with
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REGULATIONS FOR CHURCH COUNCILS-COnt.

(2) All the above matters shall be open to free discussion
and before the report is proposed for adoption and it shall be
open to any member of the meeting to ask any question about
church matters or bring about a discussion of any matter of general
church interest by moving a general resolution or by moving to
give any particular recommendation to the church council in the
fulfilment of its duties. The meeting shall have power to adjourn
and to determine its own time of meeting and rules of procedure.

(3) The meeting shall be convened by the incumbent or clergy-
man in charge by notice (in the form hereafter set forth) affixed
at or near the principal door of the church for a period including
the two Sundays immediately preceding the day of the meeting.
The meeting shall be held in such place at such date and hour
as shall be directed by the church council or in the absence of
such direction as shall be fixed by the incumbent or clergyman
in charge.

Form of notce.
Notice is hereby given that the annual church meeting of the
church will be held at
on day the day of '19
at o'clock in the noon for the purposes
following, namely-
(a) the election of representatives to the board of the trustees
of the Church of England in the Diocese of Victoria,
Hong Kong;
(b) the election of the chureh council;
(c) the election of representatives to the Diocesan Conference;
(d) the election of sidesmen;
(e) the election of an auditor;
(f) the receiving front the church council and considering-
(i) a copy or copies of the electoral roll;
(ii) an annual report on its proceedings;
(iii) a statement of the financial affairs of the church;
(g)the transacting of any other business connected with the
affairs of the church.
Dated this day of '19
.....................
Incumbent.

(4) Fifteen electors shall be a quorum at the annual or a
special church meeting of Saint John's Cathedral Church, of Saint
Andrew's Church, Kowloon, or of any other church that comes
within the provisions of the Church of England Trust Ordinance.
(5) The incumbent or clergyman in charge shall be the chair-
man of the meeting if present and if not a chairman shall be
chosen by and from the electors present who shall preside at the
meeting but no clerical chairman shall have a vote (except a casting
vote) in the election of the church council.
(6)(a) The candidates must either previously to the meeting
by written notice to the convenor thereof or at the meeting
be nominated by one elector and seconded by another.
(b)If more candidates are nominated than there are seats to
be filled the election shall take place at the meeting unless
a poll is demanded by at least three of the voters present
at the meeting.
(c)At every election each elector on the roll shall have as
many votes as there are persons to be elected but may
not give more than one vote to any one candidate.





REGULATIONS FOR CHURCH COUNCILS-cont.

(d)Where an equality of votes renders a casting vote neces-
sary to decide the election it shall be given by the person
presiding over the election.
(e) The result of an election shall be forthwith announced by
the person presiding over the election and a notice of the
result shall be affixed at or near the principal door of the
church and the notice shall be left so affixed for not less
than fourteen days following the date of election.

Appeals.

18. Any appeal against the allowance or disallowance of enrol-
ment on the electoral roll or of a vote or against the report of
the result of the election shall be made in writing to the incumbent
within seven days after the date of publication of such allowance
or disallowance or the publication of such result as the case may
be. A commission shall be constituted by the church council and
any appeal shall be considered and decided by such two or more
members of the commission as the commission shall appoint and
their decision shall be final.

APPENDIX. [regs. G, 8.]

Rules of procedure for church councils.
1. Every church council shall hold not less than four
in each year. Meetings shall be convened by the chairman and
if not more than four meetings are held they shall be at quarterly
intervals as far as possible.
2. The chairman may at any time convene a meeting of the
church council. If he refuses or neglects to do so within seven
days after a requisition for that purpose signed by not less than
one-third of the members of the church council has been presen-led
to him those mernbers may forthwith convene a meeting.
3. Except as provided in rule 7, at least ten clear days
before any meeting of a church council notice thereof
the time and place of the intended meeting, and signed by or
on behalf of the chairman of the church council or the persons
convening the meeting, shall be posted at or near the principal
door of the church.
4. Notices of motion may be sent in writing to the secretary
by any member of the church council at any time. Not less than
seven days before the meeting a notice thereof specifying the
time and place of the meeting signed by or on behalf of the
secretary shall be sent to every member of the church council.
Such notice shall contain the agenda of the meeting including any
motion ot which notice has been receive by the secretary.
5. No business shall be transacted at any meetin g of a
church council unless at least one-third of the full number of
members are present thereat, and no business which is not specified
in the agenda shall be transacted at any meeting except by the
consent of three-quarters of the members present at the meeting.
6. The business of a meeting of a church council shall be
transacted in the order set forth in the agenda unless the church
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7. In case of sudden emergency and other special circum-
stances requiring immediate action by a church council a meeting
may be convened by the chairman at not less than three days'
notice in writing to the members of the church council concerned
but the quorum for the transaction of any business at such meeting
shall be a majority of the then existing members of the church
council concerned and no business shall be transacted at such
meeting except such as is specified in the notice convening the
meeting,

8. The meetings of a church council shall be held at such
place as the church council may direct or in the absence of such
direction as, the chairman may direct.

9. Subject to the foregoing rules any motion proposed by any
member of a church council present at a meeting shall be sub-
mitted to the meeting and shall be decided by a majority of
votes of the members present and voting thereon.
10. In case of an equal division of votes the chairman ol the
meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

11. The names of the members present at any meeting of a
church council shall be recorded in the minutes, and the names
of those voting on each question on which a division is taken if
the members composing either the majority or the minority so
require shall be recorded so as to show how the vote of each
member was given: Provided nevertheless that the vote on any
question shall be by ballot if the meeting so decides.
12. Any meeting of a church council may adjourn its proceed-
ings to such time as may be determined at such meeting and to
any place authorized under rule 8.

13. A church council may appoint one of its number to act
as secretary of the church council without remuneration. If no
member is appointed so to act the church council shall appoint
some other fit person with such remuneration (if my) as it may
think fit. The secretary shall have charge of the electoral roll
and of all documents relating to current business of the church
council. He shall be responsible for keeping. the minutes and shall
record all resolutions passed by the church council and shall keep
the secretary of the Diocesan Conference infoyined as to his
address.
14. A church council shall appoint one or more of its number
to act as treasurer solely or jointly without remuneration.
15. A church council may appoint committees for the purposes
of the various branches of church work in the district and may
include therein persons who are not members of the church council.
The incumbent shall be a member of all commitees ex officio.

16. Any question arising on the interpretation of these rules
shall be referred to the Bishop and any decision given by him
or by any person appointed by him oil his behaif shall be final.
Originally 2 of 1930. Fraser 2 of 1930. Preamble. (5 of 1899.) (16 of 1904.) Short title. Interpretation. Constitution of the trustees; commissary; [s. 3 cont.] proceedings and acts of the trustees. Notification of change in trustees. Incorporation and general powers of the trustees; power to acquire property; power to dispose of property; use of seal. Vesting of property in trustees: Saint John's Cathedral Church and precincts; [s. 6 cont.] Saint Andrew's Church Kowloon; furniture and effects; Saint John's Cathedral Hall endowment fund; other property: memorials. Delegation of powers to church councils. [s. 7 cont.] Schedule. Boards of patronage; fixing of salary of clergyman in charge: renewal and termination of agreement of the clergyman in charge. Regulations for trustees and church councils. [s. 9 cont.] Church councils of Saint John's Cathedral and of Saint Andrew's Church. Application of Ordinance. Right of visitation. Bishop's right to use Cathedral. Right of troops to use of Cathedral Church on payment of certain sum. Government grant for services at prisons and Government hospitals. Power to erect memorials; power to remove ruinous memorial, etc.; [s. 16 cont.] alterations. Saving of the Chater Endowment Funds. Saving. Regulations-Fraser, vol. 3, p. 1077. Regulations-Fraser, vol. 3, p. 1078. Meaning of expression 'church councils' (Cap. 277.) Constitution of church councils. Election of lay representatives. Duration of office of lay representatives and co-opted members. Filling up of casual vacancies among lay representatives or co-opted members. Meetings of church councils. Appendix. Secretary and treasurer for church councils. Powers of church councils. (Cap. 277.) (Cap. 277.) Church councils to keep accounts. Keeping of registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. Provision of safe for books. Provision of inventory. Erection or monuments. Alterations in church or furniture. Powers of the Bishop. (Cap. 277.) Electoral roll. Annual church meeting: discussion: convening of annual church meeting and form of notice therefor; quorum; (cap. 277.) chairman; elections. Appeals. Meetings of church council. Power to call meetings. Notice of meeting. Notice of motion. Quorum and agenda. Order of business. Short notice for emergency meetings. Place of meeting. Vote of majority to decide. Casting vote. Minutes. Adjournments. Secretary of council. Treasurer of council. Power to appoint committees. Interpretation.