LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1891

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1891

No. 6 of 1891.
An Ordinance for the incorporation of the Senior Mission-
ary 197, this Colony of the London Missionary Society .

[31st October, 1891.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the London Missionary
Society Incorporation Ordinance, 1891.

2. The holder of the appointment of Senior Missionary in
Hongkong 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 Hongkong of the London Missionary
Society. 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 acquires, accept leases of, purchase, take,
hold, and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages, or tene-
ments of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923
See also No. 57 of 1911, s. 18.

in this Colony and also to invest moneys 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 inanner of goods and chattels
whatsoever; and the said corporation is hereby further
empowered by deeds under its seal, to grant, sell, convey,
assign, snrrender and yield up, inortgage, demise, re-assign,
transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stockss,
and securities, goods and chattels, vested in the sald
corporation, ou such terms as to the said corporation may
seem fit: Provided that due notice of appointment as such
Senior Missionary in Hongkoug, 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 sealed with the seal
of the said corporation in the presence of the said Senior,
Missionary or his attorney duly authorised, and shall also
be signed by him or his attorney, and such signing shall
be and be taken as sufficient evidence of thb due sealing of
such deeds, documents, and other instruments.

5. Nothincy in this Ordinance shall afect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty.
[Originally No. 19 of 1891. Law Rev. Ord., 1923.] Short title. Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in the Colony of the London Missionary Society. Use of seal. Saving of rights of the Crown.

[Originally No. 19 of 1891. Law Rev. Ord., 1923.] Short title. Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in the Colony of the London Missionary Society. Use of seal. Saving of rights of the Crown.

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