BASEL EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1896

BASEL EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1896

ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1896.

Basel Evangelical Missionary Society Incorporation

AN ORDINANCE for the Incorporation of the President in
this Colony of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society.
[17th March,1896.]
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 Basel Evangelical Missionary
Society Incorporation Ordinance,1896. 2.The Reverend Christian Gottlieb Reusch,President in this Colony
of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society,and holding the appoint-
ment of the President in Hongkong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary
Society,and his successors holding the said appintment,and having
placed in the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of his appoint-
ment for the time being,shall be a body corporate(hereinafter called
the said Corporation),and shall,for the purposes of this Ordinance,have
the name of 'The President in Hongkong of the Basel Evangelical
Missionary Society,' 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 all Colony,and shall and may have and use a
common seal,and the said seal may from time to time 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 its dependencies,and also to invest moneys on mortgage of
any lands,buildings,messuages,or tenements in this Colony and its
dependencies,or on the mortgeges or debentures,stocks,funds,shares,
or securities of any corporation or company carrying on cusiness or
having an office in this Colony or its dependencies,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,mortgeges,debentures,
stcks,funds,and securities,goods and chattels,by this Ordinance
vested or that may hereafter be vested in the said Corporation on such
terms as to the said Corporaiton may seem fit:Provided that due notice
of appointment as such President 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 thereof having been made.
3.The pieces or parcels of ground situate,lying,and being within
this COlony and registered in the Land Office as Sub-Section A of
Section B of Inland Lot No.681;Section A of Sub-Seciton 5 of Seciton
B of Inland Lot No. 681;the remaining portion of Sub-Seciton 5 of
Section B of Inland Lot No.681;Sub-Seciton No.3 of Section C of Inland Lot
no. 681;Section D of Inland Lot No. 681;the remaining portion of
Inland Lot No.681;Inland Lot No.829;Sowkewan Lot No.138;
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 623 Taikoktsui;and Kowloon Inland Lot No.650 Tohwawan,with the messuages or tenements and buildings
thereon,and all mortgages,debentures,stocks,funds,and securitites,
goods and chattels,in this Colony,if any,at the commencement of this
Ordinance vested or purporting to be vested in the names of the said
Reverend Christian Gottlieb Reusch,the Reverend Rudolph Lechler,
and the Reverend Gustac Adolph Gussmann or some or one of them
respectively as trustees or trustee of the said Basel Evangelical
Missionary Society,and all moneys,securities for money,goods,chattels,
and effects whatsoever the property of the said Missionary Society or
purporting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the said
Corporation,but subject,as regards the said pieces or parcels of ground,
messuages or tenements ,and buildings ,to the payment of the rents and
observance and performance of all the covenants,conditions,and
reservations contained in the Crown Leases under which the same are
now or may hereafter be respectively held.
4.All deeds,documents,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 said Christian Gottlieb Reusch or his attorney
duly authorized or in the presence of any of his successors holding the
appointment of President in Hognkong of the Basek Evangelical
Missionary Society or his attorney dulu athorized,and shall be also be
signed by the said Christian Gottlieb Reusch or his attorney or by his
said successor or his said attorney.
5.Nothing in this Oridnance shall affect or be deemed ot 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. 1896. Ordinance No. 4 of 1896. Short title. Incorporation of President in the Colony of Basel Evangelical Missionary Society. Vesting in Corporation of lands, etc., now vested in trustees. Use of seal of Corporation.
Saving of rights of the Crown and others.

A.D. 1896. Ordinance No. 4 of 1896. Short title. Incorporation of President in the Colony of Basel Evangelical Missionary Society. Vesting in Corporation of lands, etc., now vested in trustees. Use of seal of Corporation.
Saving of rights of the Crown and others.

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