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(1) For the purpose of the administration of the municipal affairs of Howrah there shall be constituted a Corporation as provided in section 4 and such Corporation shall, by the name of the Municipal Corporation of Howrah, be a body corporate and have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall, by the said name, sue ,and be sued. (2) The properties along with all rights therein of what- soever description used, enjoyed or possessed, immediately before the date of constitution of the Corporation, by the Commissioners of the municipality of Howrah or Bally, as constituted under the Bengal Municipal Act, 1932, or by any Union Board or Panchayat, as the case may be, included within the area of Flowrah shall, on and from such date, become vested in the Corporation. (3) All rights, liabilities and obligations of the Com- missioners of the said municipality of Howrah•or Bally and of the said Union Board or Panchavat, as the case may be, in relation to any matter provided for in or under this Act shall, in so far as they were subsisting immediately before the date of constitution of the Corporation, be enforceable by or against the Corporation. (;coati..