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recoverable as liquidated damages, or at the option and pleasure of His Majesty, His Majesty shall be at liberty to cancel the sale as if it had never taken place, in which case also the Premium paid by the Purchaser shall be thereupon wholly forfeited to His Majesty. But such cancellation shall not exonerate the present Purchaser upon a subsequent re-sale from making good the deficiency, if any, upon such re-sale and all costs and expenses as ascertained shall be recoverable as aforesaid.
SPECIAL COVENANTS AND CONDITIONS.
I. The Crown Lease referred to in General Condition No. 8 shall contain the following covenants and conditions :-
(.) The Lessee shall within 12 months from the date of sale build and finish, fit for use, a Pier of the minimum dimensions of 150 feet by 50 feet in accordance with plans which must in the first instance be submitted to the Director of Public Works and approved of in writing by him.
(.) During the erection of such new Pier the Lessee shall so far as possible maintain the existing Pier in such a condition that it can be used for safely embarking and disembarking passengers.
(in.) The Lessee shall within six months after the receipt by him of notice in writing in that behalf from the Government, subject to through railway traffic to Canton being established and the Railway Pier being com- pleted, institute and maintain services of direct ferry steamers, and will run such ferry steamers in connection with the trains on the Kowloon-Canton Railway in accordance with schedules and time-tables to be drawn up by the Government from time to time, and in conformity with the following scheme :
1. (a.) The Lessee shall have the sole right to run Ferry Services from any point within the existing City boundaries from the City Victoria to the Railway Pier for a period of 10 years from the date on which he is required to commence such services.
(7.) In the event of the Government calling upon the Lessee to institute Ferry Services from the City of Victoria to the Railway Pier at Kowloon he may be required to run such services from any or all of three points, riz. :-
(.) The Pier opposite Ice House Street which forms the
subject of these Conditions of Sale.
(i.) A Pier which will be permitted to be erected in the Central or Western District of the City at a point determined by the Director of Public Works.
(i) A Pier which will be permitted to be erected in the Eastern District of the City at a point determined by
the Director of Public Works.
Provided always that the Lessee may by agreement with and subject to the consent of the Government substitute a combined Ferry Service to the Railway Pier from the Piers referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) instead of maintaining two separate services.
2. The terms upon which the Lessee will be permitted to erect the second
mentioned Pier are as follows:-
(a.) Maximum dimensions of the Pier that may be erected: 200 feet projection from line of Praya Wall by 30 feet wide.
(6.) Premium of $10,000 payable within 7 days of the date
of the order by Government to erect the Pier.
(c.) Crown Rent in accordance with the Piers Ordinance, 1899, commencing from the date of the order by Gov-
ernment to erect the Pier