Section 12: Insurance of Mansion-house, and application of money received in respect of insurance.

The Corporation shall keep the said Mansion-house called “Petit Hall,” and all the out-buildings and offices thereof, and also all other messuages or buildings which may from time to time be added thereto or substituted therefor, or which may here after become subject to any of the trusts of this Act, adequately insured in the name of the said Corporation of the persons for the time being constituting the same against loss or damage by, fire, and may apply any portion of the income of the funds for the time being subject to the trusts of this Act to that purpose, and in case the hereditaments and premises so insured or any part thereof shall be destroyed or damaged by fire, the moneys received in respect of such insurance shall either be out under the direction of the said Corporation in re-building or reinstating the hereditaments and premises so destroyed or damaged by fire, or, upon the application of the person for the time being entitled to and in the enjoyment of the said dignity of Baronet and with the consent of the Governor of Bombay in Council, to be notified by a resolution of the Government of Bombay, may be laid out in the purchase of other hereditaments in the Presidency of Bombay suitable for The support of the dignity of the said title, in which last mentioned case the hereditaments so purchased shall immediately from and after the completion of the purchase thereof be and become subject to the uses and trusts of this Act or such of them as shall then be subsisting and capable of taking effect in the same manner and to the same effect as if such lastmentioned, hereditaments had expressly been named or described in the fifth section of this Act. Until such insurance moneys shall have been so laid out, the Corporation may invest the same or any part thereof in any of the Government securities specified in section 16.