PROCURATOR FOR THE DOMINICAN MISSIONS INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1886

PROCURATOR FOR THE DOMINICAN MISSIONS INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1886

ORDINANCE NO. 9 OF 1886.

Procurator For the Dominican Missions Incorporation

AN ORDINANCE for the Incorporation of the Procurator in this
Colony for the Dominican Missions in the Far East.
[7th May, 1886]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of
the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Procurator For the Dominican
Missions Incorporation Ordinance, 1886.
2. The Very Reverend Fernando Sainz, the Procurator in this Colony for the
Dominican Missions, (also known in this Colony as the Spanish
Missions in China and tonquin), and holding the appointment of the
Procurator in this Colony for the said Missions in the Far East, and his
successors holding the said appointment and having placed in the hands
of the Governor satisfactory proof of his appointment for the tim being,
shall be a body corporate (hereinafter called the said Corporation) and
shall, for the purpose of this Ordinance, have the name of 'the procurator in
Hongkong for the Dominican Missions in the Far East,' and
by the name shall and may have and use a common seal, and the said
seal may from time to time breeak, 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 tenements in this
Colony or on the mortgages or debentures, stock, 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 and manner of
goods and chattels whatsoever, and the said Corporation is hereby further
empowered from time to time, by deed or deeds under its seal, to grant,
sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign,
transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and

tenements, mortages, debentures, stock, funds, and securities, goods and
chattels, by this ordinace vested, or that may hereafter be vested, in
the said Corporation, upon such terms as to the said Corporation may
seem fit: provided that due notice of such appointment as procurator
in this Colony, and of the proof thereof having been placed in the hands
of the Governor, shall be given in the Gazette, and such notice shall be
sufficient evidence of the said appointment and of proof therof having
been made.
3 the lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements situate lying and
being within this Colony and all mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
and securities, goods and chattels, in this Colony at the commencement
of this Ordinance vested or purporting to be vested i nthe said Very
Reverend Fernando Sainz in his own right or as trustee for or Procurator
in this Colony of the said Dominican Missions, or in the name
of the late Revered Francisco Rivas, Reverend Pedro Payo, Reverend
Ramon Reixach, Reverend Gregorio Echevarria, Reverend Francisco
Herce, and Reverend Guillermo burno respectively as trustees for the
said Missions, and all moneys securities for money, goods, chattels, and
effects whatsoever, the property of the said Missions or purporting so to
be, are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation, but
subject, as regards the said lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements,
to the payment of the rents and the observance and performance of all
the convenants, conditions, and reservations contained in the Crown leases
or under-leases or mortgages under which the said lands, buildings,
and tenements are now or may hereafter be respectively held.
4 all deeds 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 Very Reverend Fernando Sainz or his attorney duly
authorized, or in the presence of any his successor holding the appointment
of Procurator in Hongkong for the Dominiean Missions in the
Far East or his attorney duly authorized, and shall also be signed by
the said Very Reverend Fernando Sainz or his said attorney or by his
said successor or his said attorney.
5 Nothing in this Ordinancd shall affect or be deemed to affect the
rights of her Majesty the Queen, her heirs or successors, or of any
bodies politic or corporate or other persons, except such as are mentioned
in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from, or under them.

A.D. 1886. Ordinance No. 14 of 1886.
Short title.
Incorporation of Procurator in the Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East. Vesting in Corporation of lands, now vested in Very Reverend Fernando Sainz and others. Use of seal of Corporation. Reservation of rights of the Crown, etc.

A.D. 1886. Ordinance No. 14 of 1886.
Short title.
Incorporation of Procurator in the Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East. Vesting in Corporation of lands, now vested in Very Reverend Fernando Sainz and others. Use of seal of Corporation. Reservation of rights of the Crown, etc.

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