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3. Notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment or rule of law to the contrary, the indentures described in the Schedule are hereby declared to have been validly made and the properties respectively transferred, or purporting to be transferred, thereby shall be deemed to have been duly transferred by the said indentures, and all acts or things heretofore done under the said indentures are hereby validated and confirmed, and every obligation imposed or purporting to be imposed on any person mentioned in any of the said
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said indentures shall be binding in law on the person named therein whether such person is or is not a party to such indenture, and the Trustees referred to in subsection (1) of section 2 shall have power, in conformity with the indentures of which they are respectively trustees, to transfer or otherwise deal with the properties comprised in those indentures.
THE SCHEDULE
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THE SCHEDULE.
(See section 2.)
Particulars of Indenture and present Trustees thereof.
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| Date. | Parties. | Shoot effect. | Name and description of the Trustees of each Indenture at the date of the passing of this Act. | Corporate name of the Trustees for the time being of each Indenture from the date of the passing of this Act. |
| 26th January 1920. Registered at Madras on 28th June 1920, being Serial No. 2086 of 1920 in Registration Book 1 of the office of the Registrar of Madras, Chinghaput. | Daniel Chamfer, Custodian of Enemy Property, Madras and Coorg (therein referred to as the Custodian) of the first part and Henry Reginald Pate, Arthur Davis, the Reverend William Meston, the Hon'ble Mr. Muthiah David Devadoss Avergal and the Reverend Duncan Gordon MacNaughton Leith (therein referred to as the Trustees) of the second part. | Being a transfer by the Custodian to the Trustees on the Trusts therein mentioned of all property moveable or immovable in the Madras Presidency and Coorg, formerly belonging to or held in Trust for the Basel Mission, the Leipzic Evangelical Lutheran Mission, the Schleswig Holstein Evangelical Lutheran Mission and the Hermannsburg Evangelical Lutheran Mission. | John Anderson Thorne, I.C.S., Secretary to the Board of Revenue (Land Revenue), Madras.
Paul Appaswami, Judge of the Court of Small Causes, Madras.
Muthiah David Devadoss, Barrister-at-Law, Madras. | The Mission Trust of Southern India. |
| 31st March 1920. Registered at Madras on 5th August 1920, being Serial No. 2197 of 1920 in Registration Book 1 of the office of the Registrar of Madras, Chingleput. | Harold Charles Barnes Mitchell, Custodian of Enemy Property. Bombay (therein referred to as the Custodian) of the first part and John Anderson Thorne, Arthur Davies, the Reverend William Meston, the Hon'ble Mr. Muthiah David Devadoss and the Reverend Duncan Gordon MacNaughton Leith (therein referred to as the Trustees) of the second part. | Being a transfer by the Custodian to the Trustees on the Trusts therein mentioned of all property moveable or immovable in the Bombay Presidency, formerly belonging to or held in Trust for the Basel Mission. | Duncan Gordon MacNaughton Leith, Secretary, German Missions' Committee of the National Missionary Council.
Anthony Watson Brough of the London Mission, Erode, Madras. |
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| 13th October 1919. Registered at Ghazipur on 23rd January 1920, being Serial No. 2 of 1920 in Registration Book 1 of the office of the Registrar of Ghazipur. | Shaikh Makbul Hosain, Custodian of Enemy Property, United Provinces (therein referred to as the Custodian) of the first part and the Hon'ble Mr. B. Foley, W. B. Heycock, the Reverend J. Z. Hodge, Professor S. C. Mukerji, the Reverend G. J. Dann (therein referred to as the Trustees) of the second part. | Being a transfer by the Custodian to the Trustees on the Trusts therein mentioned of all property moveable or immovable in the United Provinces, formerly belonging to or held in Trust for the Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Mission. | Frank Frederick Lyall, Commissioner of Chota Nagpur.
John Tarlton Whitty, Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi.
Herbert Anderson, Secretary, National Missionary Council.
George James Dann, Missionary, Patna.
Satish Chandra Mukerji, Professor, Serampore College. |
| 13th October 1919. Registered at Ranchi on 4th December 1919, being Serial No. 4390 of 1919 in Registration Book 1 of the office of the District Sub-Registrar, Ranchi. | Patrick William Murphy, Custodian of Enemy Property, Bihar and Orissa (therein referred to as the Custodian) of the one part and Blanchard Foley, William Bisell Heycock, the Reverend John Zimmerman Hodge, Professor S. C. Mukerji and the Reverend George James Dann (therein referred to as the Trustees) of the other part. | Being a transfer by the Custodian to the Trustees on the Trusts therein mentioned of all property moveable or immovable in the Province of Bihar and Orissa, formerly belonging to or held in Trust for the German Evangelical Lutheran Mission. | The Mission Trust of Northern India. |
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Particulars of Indenture and present Trustees thereof—concld.
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| Date. | Parties. | Short effect. | Name and description of the Trustees of each Indenture at the date of the passing of this Act. | Corporate name of the Trustees for the time being of each Indenture from the date of the passing of this Act. |
| 1st October 1919. Registered at Dibrugarh on 29th January 1920, being Serial No. 42 of 1920 in Registration Book 1 of the office of the Sub-Registrar, Dibrugarh. | Stephen Nairne Mackenzie, Custodian of Enemy Property, Assam (therein referred to as the Custodian) of the first part and the Hon'ble Mr. Blanchard Foley, William Bissil Heycock, the Reverend John Zimmerman Hodge, Professor S. C. Mukerji and the Reverend G. J. Dann (therein referred to as the Trustees) of the second part. | Being a transfer by the Custodian to the Trustees on the Trusts therein mentioned of all property moveable or immoveable in Assam, formerly belonging to or held in Trust for the German Evangelical Lutheran Mission. | Frank Frederick Lyall, Commissioner of Chota Nagpur.
John Tariton Whitty, Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi.
Herbert Anderson, Secretary, National Missionary Council.
George James Dann, Missionary, Patna.
Satish Chandra Mukerji, Professor, Serampore College. | The Mission Trust of Northern India. |
of 1921.
27th November 1919. Registered at Rangoon on 13th February 1920, being Serial No. 206 of 1920 in Registration Book 1 of the office of the Sub-Registrar, Rangoon.
30th April 1920. Registered at Dibrugarh on 23rd June 1920, being Serial No. 453 of 1920 in Registration Book 1 of the office of the Sub-Registrar, Dibrugarh.
John Cormack Mackenzie, Custodian of Enemy Property, Burma (therein referred to as the Custodian) of the first part and John Cormack Mackenzie, Herbert Hoddy Mackney, Frank Dennison Phinney, the Reverend Clarence Eugene Olmstead, the Reverend Vickerman Nicholson Kemp (therein referred to as the Trustees) of the second part.
Gerald Courtenay Kerwood, Custodian of Enemy Property, Assam (therein referred to as the Custodian) of the first part and the Very Reverend Paul Lefebvre, John McSwiney, Robert Eustace Witham (therein referred to as the Trustees) of the second part.
Being a transfer by the Custodian to the Trustees on the Trust therein mentioned of all property moveable or immoveable in Burma, formerly belonging to or held in Trust for the Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Mission.
Being a transfer by the Custodian to the Trustees on the Trust therein mentioned of all property moveable or immoveable in Assam, formerly belonging to or held in Trust for the religious association or covenanted order called the Sisters of the Divine Saviour.
John Cormack Mackenzie, Collector of Rangoon.
Ernest Godfrey Pattle, District Magistrate of Rangoon.
Frank Dennison Phinney, Superintendent, American Baptist Mission Press, Rangoon.
D. P. Durai Raj, Saint Gabriels, S. P. G. Mission, Rangoon.
C. H. Riggs, Principal, Methodist Boys' High School, Rangoon.
The Very Reverend Paul Lefebvre, Vice-Administrator of the Prefecture Apostolic of Assam.
John McSwiney, Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Assam.
Robert Eustace Witham, Manager, Budia Tea Estate, Lakhimpur, Assam.
The Assam Roman Catholic Mission Trust.
Source: India Code