The corporation may acquire, purchase, take, hold and enjoy movable and immovable property of every description, and may convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, charge, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or deal with, any movable and immovable property vested in the corporation upon such terms as to the corporation seems fit; and in respect of or in connexion with the matters aforesaid or any of them, the corporation may do all such things and acts as bodies corporate may lawfully do.