MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1893

MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1893

No. 7 of 1893.
An Ordinance for the incorporation of the trustees of the.
Hong Kong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund.

[2nd August, 1893.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Masonic Benevolence
Ffind Incorporation Ordinance, 1893.

2.-(1) The trustees of the Hong Kong and South China
Masonic Benevolence Fund, who have been certified as such
on behalf of the corporation by a statutory declaration made
by the secretary and filed with the Registrar of Companies,
shall be a body corporate (hereinafter called the corporation)
and shall have the name of ' The Hong Kong and South
China Masonic Benevolence Fund Corporation ', 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.





(2) The said corporation 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 or elsewhere, and also to invest moneys on deposit in any bank
either in this Colony or elsewhere on such terms as may seem expedient to it,
or on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements in this
Colony or elsewhere, or on the mortgages or debentures of any corporation
or company carrying on business or constituted for any purpose in this
Colony or elsewhere.

(3) 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 or deal with any lands,
buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, or debentures 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 and other instruments requiring execution by the said
corporation shall be sealed with its seal and signed in manner provided by
its by-laws.

5.-(1) The said corporation, may adopt the existing by-laws
of the Hong Kong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund,
so far as they are not inconsistent with this Ordinance, and
may (notwithstanding that such existing by-laws provide that
alterations therein can be proposed only at the annual meeting
therein mentioned) alter the same, or may frame other by-laws
for its internal management and control.

(2) All such by-laws, when agreed upon by the said corporation, shall
be binding on every member thereof.

(3) A copy of the by-laws, and of any amendment thereof, certified as
correct by the secretary, shall be deposited and filed with the Registrar of
Companies.

6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect ot be deemed to affect the
rights of His Majesty.

7.-(1) There shall. be payable by the said corporation to
the Registrar of Companies a fee of three dollars on the deposit
and filing of each copy of the by-laws, and a further fee of three
dollars for the making and filing of every such. declaration as
is mentioned in section 2.

(2) A fee of fifty cents shall be payable for every search of
the file.

[Originally No. 11 of 1893.] Short title. Incorporation of trustees of Hong Kong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund. Execution of deeds, etc. Adoption and making of by-laws, etc. Saving of rights of the Crown, etc. Fees.

[Originally No. 11 of 1893.] Short title. Incorporation of trustees of Hong Kong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund. Execution of deeds, etc. Adoption and making of by-laws, etc. Saving of rights of the Crown, etc. Fees.

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