DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1892

DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1892

No. 3 of 1892.

An ordinance for the incorporation of the chairman of the
committee of the diocesan school and orphanage.

1. This ordinance may be cited as the diocesan school
and orphanage incorporation ordinance, 1892.

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 court, and shall and may have and use a common seal,
and the said seal may break, change, aler, and make anew
as to the said corporation may seem fit, and the said corpora-
tion 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, 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 chat-
tels 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 any lands, buildings, mes-
suages, 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.

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

4. 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 authorised, and shall also be signed by him or

As amended by law rev, ord., 1923.


his attorney duly authorised, and such signing shall be and
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.

1893

No. 1 of 1893, repealed by No. 7 of 1913.
No. 2 of 1893, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.
[Originally No. 10 of 1892. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage. Use of seal of corporation. Saving of rights of the Crown.

[Originally No. 10 of 1892. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage. Use of seal of corporation. Saving of rights of the Crown.

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