Preamble, The Church Missionary Short title

9 of 1905. Preamble. Cap. 279] Church Missionary Society Lands CHAPTER 279. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY LANDS. WHEREAS the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (hereinafter called the Church Missionary Society) has for several years past been carrying on missionary work in the Colony of Sierra Leone and its Protectorate, and as such has become the owner of various lands situate in the Colony and Protectorate, on which churches, schools and mission houses have been built for the purpose of carrying on missionary work: AND WHEREAS the lands aforesaid are held in trust for the Church Missionary Society by an association called the Church Missionary Trust Association, which was incorporated and registered in England in the month of May, 1885, under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1883, and was empowered (inter alia) to hold lands of the Church Missionary Society: AND WHEREAS for many years past the Church Missionary Society have from time to time withdrawn from portions of their missionary work in Sierra Leone, and the same has been undertaken and carried on by members of the Church of England in Sierra Leone, known as the Sierra Leone Native Church, on behalf of the Church Missionary Society: AND WHEREAS an association of members of the Church of England in Sierra Leone, known as the Sierra Leone Church Committee, was by virtue of an Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council of this Colony on the 24th day of November, 1876, and intituled "An Ordinance to incorporate the Sierra Leone Church Committee," incorporated and empowered (inter alia) to hold land situate in this Colony not exceeding in yearly value the sum of ten thousand pounds sterling in trust for the Church of England in Sierra Leone (now known as the Sierra Leone Native Church aforesaid): AND WHEREAS the Church Missionary Society, by a resolution passed on the ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred, has resolved to convey absolutely to the Sierra Leone Native Church all the lands of the Church Missionary Society set out in the Schedule to this Ordinance which are now vested in the Church Missionary Trust Association: AND WHEREAS the Sierra Leone Native Church have agreed to take and hold the said lands to and for the purposes of the Church of England in Sierra Leone, and have appointed the Sierra Leone Church Committee to be their trustees in that behalf: AND WHEREAS, in order to avoid the great expense that will be incurred in conveying so many different estates from the Church Missionary Trust Association to the Sierra Leone Church Committee, the Sierra Leone Church Committee have, on behalf of the Church Missionary Society and the Sierra Leone Native Church, presented a petition to the Governor praying that the lands described in the Schedule hereto may be vested by an Ordinance of this Colony in the Sierra Leone Church Committee in trust for the Sierra Leone Native Church: AND WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto with lands now held by the Sierra Leone Church Committee do not exceed in yearly value the sum of ten thousand pounds sterling: AND WHEREAS it is expedient to grant the prayer of the Sierra Leone Church Committee.