ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE ORDINANCE, 1875

ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE ORDINANCE, 1875

No. 3 of 1875.

To provide for the devolution of the site of St. Paul's College.
[7th July, 1875.]
WHEREAS, by Letters Patent dated 11th May, 1849, Her Majesty
dA declare the City of Victoria, and all the territory comprised
within the Island of Hongkong and its dependencies, to be the
Diocese of the Bishop named in the said Letters Patent and of
his successors,and to be called in all time the Diocese of Victoria;
land did constitute the Church of St. John in the said City to be a
Cathedral Church and Bishop's See; AND WHEREAS the statutes
of St. Paul's College in Victoria were approved by his Grace the
then Archbishop of Canterbury on 15th October, 1849, and the
said statutes provided, amongst other things, that all property
of every kind thereafter to be given,transferred,or bequeathed to
the purpose of the College should be vested in the Bishop of
Victoria for the time, being as constituted by Her Majesty's
Letters Patent a body corporate; AND WHEREAS a Grown lease
dated 5th September, 1851 was made between Her Majesty of the
ono part, and the Right Roverend George Lord Bishop of Victoria,
in the Island of Hongkong, ex officio Warden, on behalf of the
Church of England Missionary Institution known as St. Paul's
College, of the other part, and thereby the land therein described
(being Inland Lot No. 76), with its appurtenances, was demised
to the said Lord Bishop of Victoria and his successors, being such
Warden, to hold unto the said Lord Bishop of Victoria and his
successors being such Warden for the full term of 999 years, com-
mencing on 19th April,1850, at the yearly rent of one dollar; AND
WHEREAS by Letters Patent datedIst November, 1872, Her
Majesty was pleased to revoke and determine the said recited
Letters Patent of 11th May, 1849, and other Letters Patent of
14th January, 1867, and every clause, article, and thing therein
contained; AND WHEREAS by the revocation of the Letters Patent
the said See and Bishopric of Victoria ceased to exist as thereto-
fore constituted; ANO WHEREAS by the revocation of the expedient to provide
for the devolution of the property comprised in the aforesaid
crown lease:-
1. The St. Paul's College Ordinance, 1875.

2. The above-recited Grown lease dated 5th September, 1851,
and all the portion of land therein described, with its appurten-
ances, and St. Paul's College and all other buildings erected on
the his land, shall vest In His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
and his successors for all the imexpired residue of the term of 999
years created by the said lease, upon and for the trusts, intents,
and purposes in the said lease expressed and declared and subject
to the covenants and conditions therein contained, and the said
Archibishop and his suceesors shall be deemed to be the lessees
of the said land as fully and effectually and to the same extent as
if they had been originally nanied as lessees in the said lease.
[ss. 3, 4, 5, 6, rep, No. 62 of 1911.]
Short title. Vesting of lease and site of St. Paul's College in Archbishop of Canterbury.

Short title. Vesting of lease and site of St. Paul's College in Archbishop of Canterbury.

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