MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 297.

MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND
INCORPORATION.

For the incorporation of the trustees of the Hong Kong
and Soutit China Masonic Benevolence Fund.

[2nd August, 1893.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the
Benevolence Fund Incorporation Ordinance.

2. (1) The trustees of the Hong Kong and South
China 1Masonic Benevolence Fund, who have been certified
as such on behalf of the corporation by a statutory declara-
tion 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 anal South China Masonic Benevolence Fund Cor-
poration, and by that name shall have perpetual succes-
sion, 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, sur-
render and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, 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 corpora-
tion may seem fit.

3. All deeds and other instruments requiring execu-
tion by the said corporation shall be sealed with its seal
and signed in manner provided by its by-laws. [4





4. (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 manage-
ment 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. [5

5.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. [6

6. (1) There shall be payable by the said corpora-
tion 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. [7
Originally 11 of 1893. Fraser 7 of 1893. 37 of 1950. 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 37 of 1950, Schedule. Fees.

Originally 11 of 1893. Fraser 7 of 1893. 37 of 1950. 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 37 of 1950, Schedule. Fees.

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