DOMINICAN MISSIONS INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1886

DOMINICAN MISSIONS INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1886

No. 9 of 1886.
An Ordinance for the incorporation of the Procurator in
this Colony for the Dominican Missions in the Far Fast.

[7th May, 1886.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dominican Missions
Incorporation Ordinance, 1886.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.





2. The Procurator in this Colony. for the Dominican Mis-
sions (also known in this Colony as the Spanish Missions in
China and Tonkin) having placed in the hands of the Gover-
nor satisfactory proof of his appointment shall be a body
corporate (hereinafter called the corporation) and shall have
the name of The Procurator in Hongkong for the Domini-
can Missions in the Far East, and by that name shall have
perpptual 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 my break, changes, 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 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, convey
assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, re-
assign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of my lands, build-
ings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures,
stock, funds, and securities, goods and chattels, that may be
vested, 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.

[s. 3, rep. No.. 62 of 1911.]
4. All deeds and other instrucments requiring the seal of
the said corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the
said Procurator or his attorney duly authorised, and shall also
be signed by him.

5. Nthing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to
affect the rights of His Majesty the King.
[Originally No. 14 of 1886 Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Incorporation of Procurator in the Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East. Use of seal of corporation. Saving of rights of the Crown.

[Originally No. 14 of 1886 Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Incorporation of Procurator in the Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East. Use of seal of corporation. Saving of rights of the Crown.

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