HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1893
Title
HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1893
Description
ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1893.
Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Funds Incorporation
AN ORDINANCE for the Incorporation of the Trustee of
the Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence
Fund.
[2nd August,1893.]
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 Hongkong and South China
Masonic Benevolence Funds Incorporation Ordinance,1893.
2.-(1.)George Cobban Anderson,John McLeavy Brown ,James
Fouglas Christie,Robert Cooke,John Dickie,William Levy Fords,
David Gillies,Allston O'Driscoll Gourdin,Francis Arthur Hazeland,
Augustus Shelton Hooper,Gregory Paul Hordan,John Warder King-
horn,Francis Lindsay Lloyd,John Lowrie ,Murdo MacAulay Mackenzie,
Richard Markwich (junior),Edward Constant Ray,Cecil Edward
Reynolds,and George Lomer Tomlin,having placed in the hands of
the Governor satisfactory proof of their being the present duly appointed
Trustees of the Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund,
are,so long as they continue to be such Trustees,hereby created,and
all others their successors the Trustees for the time being of the said
Fund,who have been certified as such on behalf of the Corporation by
a statutory declaration made from time to time by the Secretary and
filed with the Registrar of Companies,shall be,a body corporate
(hereinafter called 'the said Corporation') and shall,for the purposes
of this Ordinance,have the name of 'The Hongkong and South China
Masonic Benevolience Fund Corporation,' 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.
(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 or banks either in this Colony or elsewhere on such terms as may
seem expedient to it ,or on mortgage of any lands,buildings,mes-
suages,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 from time to
time,by deed or deeds under its seal,to grant,sell,convey,assign,
surrender any yield up,mortgage ,demise,reassign,transfer,or other-
wise dispose of or deal with nay lands,buildings,messuages,tenements,
mortgages,or debentures by this Ordinance vested or that may hereafter
be vested in or belong to the said Corporation,on such terms as to the
said Corporation may seem fit.
3.Whereas all those pieces or parcels of ground situate in this
Colony and known as Section B. of Rural Building Lot No.9 and
Inland Lot No. 225A are now registered at the Land Office in the
names,as regards the said Section B. of Rural BUilding Lot No.9,of
the said David Gillies and Augustus Shelton Hooper,as mortgagees
thereof,and,as regards the said Inland Lot No. 255A,of the said
Augustus Shelton Hooper and David Gillies,as mrtgagees thereof,
and whereas the said mortgagees hold the said pieces or parcels of
ground for and on behalf of the said Hongkong and South China
Masonic Benevolence Fund:Be it enacted that the said pieces or
parcels of ground be and the same are hereby transferred to and
vested in the said Corporation,subject,nevertheless,to the provisoes
for redemption to which the same are respectively subject,and
subject also to the payment of the rents and the performances of the
convenants and conditions reserved by and contained in the Crown
leases under which the said pieces or parcels of ground are respec-
tively held.
4.All deeds and other instruments requiring execution by the said
Corporation shall be sealed with the seal of the said Corporation ,and
signed in manner provided by the by-laws for the time being of the
said Corporation.
5.-(1.)The said Corporation may adopt the existing by-laws of the
Hongkong and South China Masonic Benvolence Fund,so far as they
are not inconsistent with this Ordinance,and may (notwithstanding
taht such existing by-laws provide that alterations therein can be pro-
posed only at the annual meeting therein mentoined) from time to time
alter the same,or may frame,and from time to time alter,other by-laws
for its internal management 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,certified as correct by the Secretary,shall
be deposited and filed with the Registrar of Companies,and whenever
such by-laws are altered a copy thereof as altered,certified as correct by
the Secretary ,shall also be forthwith deposited and filled with the said
Registrar.
6.Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the
rights of Her Majesty,her heirs or successors, or of any bodies politics
or corporate or other persons,except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from, or under them.
7.-(1.)There shall be payable by the said Corporation to the
Registrar of Companies a fee of three dollars on the deposit and filling
of each copy of the by-laws and a further fee of three dollars for the
making and filling 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.
A.D. 1893. Ordinance No. 11 of 1893. Short title. Incorporation of Trustees of Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund. Vesting of certain lands in Corporation. Execution of deeds, etc. Adoption and making of by-laws, etc. Saving of rights of the Crown, etc.
Fees.
Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Funds Incorporation
AN ORDINANCE for the Incorporation of the Trustee of
the Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence
Fund.
[2nd August,1893.]
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 Hongkong and South China
Masonic Benevolence Funds Incorporation Ordinance,1893.
2.-(1.)George Cobban Anderson,John McLeavy Brown ,James
Fouglas Christie,Robert Cooke,John Dickie,William Levy Fords,
David Gillies,Allston O'Driscoll Gourdin,Francis Arthur Hazeland,
Augustus Shelton Hooper,Gregory Paul Hordan,John Warder King-
horn,Francis Lindsay Lloyd,John Lowrie ,Murdo MacAulay Mackenzie,
Richard Markwich (junior),Edward Constant Ray,Cecil Edward
Reynolds,and George Lomer Tomlin,having placed in the hands of
the Governor satisfactory proof of their being the present duly appointed
Trustees of the Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund,
are,so long as they continue to be such Trustees,hereby created,and
all others their successors the Trustees for the time being of the said
Fund,who have been certified as such on behalf of the Corporation by
a statutory declaration made from time to time by the Secretary and
filed with the Registrar of Companies,shall be,a body corporate
(hereinafter called 'the said Corporation') and shall,for the purposes
of this Ordinance,have the name of 'The Hongkong and South China
Masonic Benevolience Fund Corporation,' 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.
(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 or banks either in this Colony or elsewhere on such terms as may
seem expedient to it ,or on mortgage of any lands,buildings,mes-
suages,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 from time to
time,by deed or deeds under its seal,to grant,sell,convey,assign,
surrender any yield up,mortgage ,demise,reassign,transfer,or other-
wise dispose of or deal with nay lands,buildings,messuages,tenements,
mortgages,or debentures by this Ordinance vested or that may hereafter
be vested in or belong to the said Corporation,on such terms as to the
said Corporation may seem fit.
3.Whereas all those pieces or parcels of ground situate in this
Colony and known as Section B. of Rural Building Lot No.9 and
Inland Lot No. 225A are now registered at the Land Office in the
names,as regards the said Section B. of Rural BUilding Lot No.9,of
the said David Gillies and Augustus Shelton Hooper,as mortgagees
thereof,and,as regards the said Inland Lot No. 255A,of the said
Augustus Shelton Hooper and David Gillies,as mrtgagees thereof,
and whereas the said mortgagees hold the said pieces or parcels of
ground for and on behalf of the said Hongkong and South China
Masonic Benevolence Fund:Be it enacted that the said pieces or
parcels of ground be and the same are hereby transferred to and
vested in the said Corporation,subject,nevertheless,to the provisoes
for redemption to which the same are respectively subject,and
subject also to the payment of the rents and the performances of the
convenants and conditions reserved by and contained in the Crown
leases under which the said pieces or parcels of ground are respec-
tively held.
4.All deeds and other instruments requiring execution by the said
Corporation shall be sealed with the seal of the said Corporation ,and
signed in manner provided by the by-laws for the time being of the
said Corporation.
5.-(1.)The said Corporation may adopt the existing by-laws of the
Hongkong and South China Masonic Benvolence Fund,so far as they
are not inconsistent with this Ordinance,and may (notwithstanding
taht such existing by-laws provide that alterations therein can be pro-
posed only at the annual meeting therein mentoined) from time to time
alter the same,or may frame,and from time to time alter,other by-laws
for its internal management 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,certified as correct by the Secretary,shall
be deposited and filed with the Registrar of Companies,and whenever
such by-laws are altered a copy thereof as altered,certified as correct by
the Secretary ,shall also be forthwith deposited and filled with the said
Registrar.
6.Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the
rights of Her Majesty,her heirs or successors, or of any bodies politics
or corporate or other persons,except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from, or under them.
7.-(1.)There shall be payable by the said Corporation to the
Registrar of Companies a fee of three dollars on the deposit and filling
of each copy of the by-laws and a further fee of three dollars for the
making and filling 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.
A.D. 1893. Ordinance No. 11 of 1893. Short title. Incorporation of Trustees of Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund. Vesting of certain lands in Corporation. Execution of deeds, etc. Adoption and making of by-laws, etc. Saving of rights of the Crown, etc.
Fees.
Abstract
A.D. 1893. Ordinance No. 11 of 1893. Short title. Incorporation of Trustees of Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund. Vesting of certain lands in Corporation. Execution of deeds, etc. Adoption and making of by-laws, etc. Saving of rights of the Crown, etc.
Fees.
Fees.
Identifier
https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/674
Edition
1901
Volume
v2
Subsequent Cap No.
1034
Cap / Ordinance No.
No. 7 of 1893
Number of Pages
3
Files
Collection
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
Citation
“HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1893,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed January 24, 2025, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/674.
