LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 296.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Senior Missionary
in this Colony of the London Missionary Society.

[31st October, 1891.]

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

2. The holder of the appointment of Senior Missionary
in Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong of the Londo;
'Missionary Society', and by that name shall have per-
petual 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 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 monevs
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
manner of Goods and chattels whatsoever; and the said
corporation is hereby further empowered by deed under its
seal, to grant, self, convey, assign, surrender and yield up,
mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose,
of any lands, buildings, messuages and tenements, mort-
gages, debentures, stocks 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 Senior Missionary in Hong Kong
and of the proof thereof having been placed in the hands
of the Governor, shall be given in the Gazelle.





3. 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 authorized, and
shall also be signed by him or his attorney, and stich
signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of
the due scaling of such deeds, documents, and other
instruments. [4

4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs
or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Originally 19 of 1891. Fraser 6 of 1891. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in the Colony of the London Missionary Society. Use of seal of corporation. Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

Originally 19 of 1891. Fraser 6 of 1891. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in the Colony of the London Missionary Society. Use of seal of corporation. Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

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