MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 299.

MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION.

For the incorporation of the Procureur General in this Colony
of the Society of the Missions Etrangeres.

[28th March, 1890.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Missions
Etrangeres Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procureur G6n6ral in this Colony of the
Society of the Missions Etrangeres 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 Etrangeres,' and by that name shall have per-
petual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all
courts in this Colony, 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 moneys
on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tene-
ments in this Colony, or on the inortgages, 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, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any
lands, buildings, 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.

3. All deeds, documents, and other instruments requir-
ing 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. [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.
[5
Originally 3 of 1890. Fraser 1 of 1890. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procureur General in the colony of Society of Missions Etrangeres. Use of seal. [s. 3 cont.] Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

Originally 3 of 1890. Fraser 1 of 1890. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procureur General in the colony of Society of Missions Etrangeres. Use of seal. [s. 3 cont.] Saving. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

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