MISSIONS TO SEAMEN IN HONGKONG INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1919

MISSIONS TO SEAMEN IN HONGKONG INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1919

No. 10 of 1919.

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the
missions to seamen in hongkong.

[13th June, 1919.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Missions to Seamen
in Hongkong Incorporation Ordinance, 1919.

2. In this Ordinance.,

(a) The Bishop mean,; the Bishop of the Church of
England known as the Bishop of victoria for the time being
officiating in this Colony.

(b) The Chaplain means the senior Chaplain of the.
missons to Seamen in hongkong for the time being officiating
in this Colony.

3. The Bishop, the Chaplain, and such other persons as
shall from time to time be certified by the Bishop under his
hand to be members of the committee of the missions to
Seamen in Hongkong shall, be a body corporate under the
name of The Missions to Seamen in Hongkong (herein-
after referred to as the corporation).

4. The corporation by the name aforesaid shall have
perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in
all courts of Justice and before all magistrates in this Colony,
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.

5. The corporation shall have power 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, and also to invest moneys upon
mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements,
or upon the mortages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any corporation or company, and also to pur-
chase, acquire and possess steam-launches, boats and other
goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.





6. The corporation shall further have power by deed under
its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange,
partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer or
otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tene-
ments, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities, steam-launches, boats or other goods and chattels,
which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the cor-
poration upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.

7. The leasehold premises situate, lying and being within
this Colony and known as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 632
with the erections and buildings thereon and the appur-
tenances thereto now vested or purporting to be vested in
the Right Reverend John Shaw Burdon, Doctor of Divinity,
Bishop of the Church of England, residing and officiating in
Hongkong, William Dawson, Commander in the Royal Navy,
Secretary of the Mission to Seamen's Society, 11, Buckingham
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, England, and
the Reverend Alfred Gurney Goldsmith, Master of Arts,
Chaplain to Seamen in the Port of Hongkong, Trustees of
the Kowloon Institnte for Seamen and Soldiers, and the
leasehold premises situate, lying and being within this Colony
and known as Marine Lot No. 295 with the erections and
buildings thereon and the appurtenances thereto now vested
or purporting to be vested in the Right Reverend Gerard
Heath Lander, Doctor of Divinity, Lord Bishop of Victoria,
who has declared that he holds the same as Trustee for the
Missions to Seamen, and all moneys, securities for money,
goods, chattels and effects whatsoever within this Colony,
the property of the Trustees of the Kowloon Institute for
Seamen and Soldiers, or the property of the said Missions to
Seamen in Hongkong, or purporting so to be, are hereby
transferred to and vested in the corporation, but subject as
regards the said leasehold premises to the payment of the
rent and the observance and performance of all the covenants,
conditions and reservations contained in the Crown leases
under which the said premises are now or may hereafter be
respectively held.

8. The corporation shall have full power and authority
generally to maintain and carry on the Missions to Seamen
in Hongkong and to decide all matters connected therewith.

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.

9. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring
the seal of the corporation shall be, sealed with the seal
of the corporation in the presence of the Bishop or (in the
event of the Bishop being absent from the Colony) of
the Chaplain and shall also be signed by the Bishop or in his
absence by the Chaplain.

10. The seal shall be kept in the custody of the Bishop
or, in his absence from. the Colony, by the Chaplain.

11. Nothing herein shall affect or be deemed to affect the
rights of His Majesty the King His Heirs or Successors, or of
any bodies politic or corporate, or other persons except such
as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by,
from or under them.
[Originally No. 10 of 1919. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Succession and seal. Power to acquire and hold property. Power to dispose of property. Vesting in corporation of lands, etc. now vested in Trustees. Power to maintain and carry on Missions. Use of seal. Custody of seal. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

[Originally No. 10 of 1919. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Succession and seal. Power to acquire and hold property. Power to dispose of property. Vesting in corporation of lands, etc. now vested in Trustees. Power to maintain and carry on Missions. Use of seal. Custody of seal. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

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