MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1893
Title
MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1893
Description
No. 7 of 1893.
For the Incorporation of the Trustees of the Hongkong and South
China Masonic Benevolence Fund. [2nd August, 1893.]
1. The Masonic Benevolence Fund Incorporation Ordinance,
1893.
2.(1) The Trustees of the Hongkong and South China Masonic
Benevolence Fund, who have, been certified as such on behalf of
the corporation by a statutory declaration made by the Secretary
and filed witn the Registrar of Compaies, shall be a body corporate
(hereinafter called the, corporation) and shall have the name of
'The Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund
Corporation'' and by that, name shall have perpetual succession,
and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts, 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 where-
soever situate in this Colony or elsewhere, and also to invest moneys
on deposit in any bank either in this Colony or elsewhere on such
terms as may seem expedient to it, or on mortgage of any lands,
buildings, messuages, or tenements in this Colony or elsewhere,
As ainended by No. 51 of. 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.
As al-fiended by No. 1 of 1912.
M arnended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 1 of 1912 and No. 2 of 1912.
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 by deed
under its seal, to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield
lip, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of
or deal with any lands, buildings, messuages, tenernents, mortgages,
or debentures vested in the said corporation, on such terms as to
the said corporation may seem fit.
[s. 3, rep. No. 1 of 1912.]
4. All deeds and other instruments requiring execution by the
said corporation shall be sealed with its seal and signed in manner
provided by its by-laws.
The said corporation may adopt the existing by-laws of
the Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund, so far
as they are not inconsistent with this Ordinance, and may (notwith-
standing that such existing by-laws provide that alterations therein
can be proposed only at the annual meeting therein mentioned)
alter the same, or may frame other by-1aws for its internal manage-
ment and control.
(12) 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, and of any amendment thereof,
certified as correct by the Secretary, shall be deposited and filed
with the Registrar of Companies.
6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect
the rights of His Majesty.
7.-(1) There shall be payable by the said corporation to the
Registrar of Companies a fee of 3 dollars on the deposit and filing
of each copy of the by-laws, and a further fee of 3 dollars for the
making and filing of every such declaration as is mentioned in
section 2.
(2) A fee of 50 cents shall be payable for every search of the file.
As amended by No. 2 of 1912.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 1 of 1912 and No. 2 of 1912.
As amended by No. 51 of 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.
Short title. Incorporation of trustees of Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund. Execution of deeds, etc. Adoption and making of by-laws, etc. Saving of rights of the Crown, etc. Fees.
Abstract
Short title. Incorporation of trustees of Hongkong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund. Execution of deeds, etc. Adoption and making of by-laws, etc. Saving of rights of the Crown, etc. Fees.
Identifier
https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/869
Edition
1912
Volume
v1
Subsequent Cap No.
1034
Cap / Ordinance No.
No. 7 of 1893
Number of Pages
2
Files
Collection
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
Citation
“MASONIC BENEVOLENCE FUND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1893,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed October 22, 2024, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/869.