MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1890

MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1890

1890.

No. 1 of 1890.

An Ordinance for the incorporation of the Procureur General
in this Colony of the Society of the Missions Etrangires.

[28th March, 1890.]

This Ordinance may be cited as the Missions Etrang&es
incorporation Ordinance, 1890.

2. The Procureur General in this Colony of the. Society of
the Missions' Etrangres 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 Hong Kong of the Missions
Etrangres,' and by that name shall have perpetual succession,
and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in this Colony,
and shalland 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
fulLpower. 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 o 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, convey,
assign, surrender, and yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign,
transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, bdildings,
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 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.] Short title. Incorporation of Procureur General in the Colony of Society of Missions Etrangeres. Use of seal. Saving of rights of the Crown.

[Originally No. 3 of 1890.] Short title. Incorporation of Procureur General in the Colony of Society of Missions Etrangeres. Use of seal. Saving of rights of the Crown.

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