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An Act to validate certain indentures transferring properties formerly held by certain Enemy Missions in Trustees, and for the incorporation of such Trustees and for other purposes. WHEREAS the Governor General in Council, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7 and 12 of the Enemy Trading Act, 1916, vested the properties both moveable and immoveable in British India of the Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Madras and Burma, the Schleswig Holstein Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Madras, the Hermannsburg Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Madras, the Basel Mission, Madras, Bombay and Coorg, the Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Mission, United Provinces and Bihar and Orissa, the German Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Bihar and Orissa and Assam, and a religious association in Assam styled the Sisters of the Divine Saviour, in certain Custodians of Enemy Property, and by order directed the said Custodians to transfer the properties thereby respectively vested in them to Boards of Trustees on certain trusts which the said Custodians accordingly purported to do by the several indentures, particulars of which are given in the Schedule hereto annexed; and WHEREAS the properties comprised in the several indentures have by diverse mesne appointments become vested in the present Trustees of those indentures; and WHEREAS n 34 [ACT IX WHEREAS doubts have risen and may arise as to the validity of certain matters in connection with the above-mentioned transfers; and WHEREAS it is expedient to terminate such doubts and to constitute the several bodies of Trustees bodies corporate in order that the intention of the said transfers may be fully carried out; It is hereby enacted as follows:— 1. This Act may be called the Enemy Missions Act, 1921.