MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1890

MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1890

-1890.-

No. 1 of 1890.

An Ordinance for the incorporation of the Procurcur
Genearl 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, 1890.

2. The Procureur General 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 Hongkong
of the Missions Etrangeres, and by that name shall have
perpetual succession, and shall and may have and 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 messages, 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,
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, re-assign, 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

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.
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.

[s. 3, rep. No. 1 of 1912.]

4. All deeds, documents, and other instruments requiring
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.

5. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to
affect the rights of His Majesty the King.
[Originally No. 3 of 1890. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title Incorporation of Procureur General on the Colony of Society of Missions Etrangeres. Use of seal. Saving of rights of the Crown.

[Originally No. 3 of 1890. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title Incorporation of Procureur General on the Colony of Society of Missions Etrangeres. Use of seal. Saving of rights of the Crown.

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