DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1892

DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1892

ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1892.

Diocesan School and Orphanage Incorporation

AN ORDINANCE for the Incorporation of the Chairman of
the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage.
[28th May,1892.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong,with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Council thereof,as follows:-
1.This Ordinance may be cited as the Diocesan School and
Orphanage Incorporation Ordinance,1892.
2.The Chairman for the time being of the COmmittee of the
Diocesan School and Orphanage shall be a body corporate ,and shall,
for the purposes of this Ordinance,have the name of 'The Chairman
of the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage,' and by that
name shall have perpetual succession,and shall and may sue and be
sued in all Courts of Justice and before all Magistrates in this Colony,
and shall and may have and use a common seal,and the said seal may
from time to time break,change,alter,and makes 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,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 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,mortgages,debentures,stocks,
funds,and securities,goods and chattels,by this Ordinance vested
in the said Corporation on such terms as to the said Corporation may
seem fit.
3.The lands,buildings,messuages,and tenements situate,lying,and
being in this Colony,registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No.
831,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 in the names of Thomas Stringer,
Wilberforce Wilson,and William Chesterman Hunter respectively as
Trustee of the Diocesan Female School,now called the Diocesan School
and Orphanage,and all moneys,securities for money,goods,chattels,
and effects whatsoever the property of the said Diocesan School and
Orphanage 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
observations contained in the Crown leases or under-leases or mortgages
under which the dsaid lands,buildings,or tenements are now or may
hereafter be respectively held.
4.All deeds,documents ,and other inmstruments requiring the seal of
the said Corporation shall be sealed with the seal of the said
Corporation in the presence of the Chairman for the time being of the
Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage or his attorney duly
authorized,and shall also be signed by the said Chairman or his
attorney suly authorized,and such signing shall be and be taken as
sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds,documents,and
other instruments.
5.Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the
rights of Her Majesty,her heirs or successors,or of any bodies politio
or corporate or other persons,except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by,from ,or under them. A.D. 1892. Ordinance No. 10 of 1892. Short title. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage. Vesting in Corporation of lands, etc., vested in trustees. Use of seal of Corporation. Reservation of right of the Crown, etc.

A.D. 1892. Ordinance No. 10 of 1892. Short title. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage. Vesting in Corporation of lands, etc., vested in trustees. Use of seal of Corporation. Reservation of right of the Crown, etc.

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