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SPECIAL CONDITIONS.
1. The purchaser, his executors, administrators and permitted assigns shall not, except by way of mortgage, sell or otherwise dispose of or assign the lot in question, without the consent of His Excellency the Governor unless and until he has expended upon the erection of buildings on the lot the sum required in clause 9 of the general -conditions of sale.
2. The design of the exterior elevations and the disposition of any building to be erected on the lot shall be subject to the special approval of the Director of Public Works and in no case may the height of any building erected on the lot exceed 35 feet except with the consent of the Director of Public Works.
3. The Purchaser shall construct substantial retaining walls, where necessary to obviate landslips, in the event of his cutting away the hill to level the site. Should a landslip occur as a result of such cutting or levelling, the purchaser will be held responsible for any damage resulting from or brought about by such landslip.
4. The drainage of any buildings erected on the lot shall be disposed of as may be required by the Director of Public Works, and the purchaser must make all arrange- ments at his own expense and to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works for the disposal of foul or contaminated water by the construction of septic tanks or otherwise as that officer may require, and the purchaser shall be solely liable for any damage or nuisance caused thereby.
5. The purchaser shall construct to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works such drains or channels as that officer may consider necessary to intercept and carry off storm-water flowing on to the lot from the hillside.
6. The purchaser of the lot shall make his own arrangements with regard to water supply.
7. A right-of-way from the Kowloon to the Castle Peak Road to the lot on a line to be approved by the Director of Public Works will be given. The purchaser of the lot. shall construct a road or path on the piece of ground over and along which such right- of-way shall be given at such time or times and in such manner as the Director of Public Works may direct and shall uphold, maintain and repair such road or path and every- thing forming portion of or appertaining to it to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, and the purchaser shall be responsible for the whole as if he were absolute owner thereof. Any alteration of the Government road to which the right-of-way is given absorbing a portion of such piece of ground or affecting the gradient thereof shall not give rise to any claim by the purchaser who shall carry out all consequent alterations to such road or path constructed by him.
8. The purchaser of the lot shall pay the cost of removing any Chinese graves at present on the area, if such removal becomes necessary; the work to be done by the owners, or failing them, by the Tung Wah Hospital authorities.
9. The purchaser of the lot must notify the Superintendent of Botanical and Forestry Department in the event of his requiring the removal of any trees from the lot, which may interfere with building operations. Such trees will be removed by the said Super- intendent.
11th February, 1932.
J. S. MACLAREN, District Officer, Southern District.
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