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PROPOSED TERMS OF THE SALE AND CROWN LEASE.
1. In consideration of payment of the agreed premium and upon completion of the reclamation of the Lot to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, it is proposed to grant a Crown Lease of the whole of the area tinted pink on the said plan and having an area of 50,000 square feet for the term of 75 years, commencing from 31st August, 1914, renewable for a further term of 75 years at a re-assessed rental.
2. The lease will be subject to and contain all Exceptions, Reservations, Covenants, Clauses, and Conditions usually inserted in the Crown Leases of Marine Lots in the Colony of Hongkong; the lease will also specify the purposes for which the land is leased (e., whether for the purpose of reclamation, building dwelling houses, factories, or godowns for the storing of coal or other goods, or whether for any other purpose) and shall contain a proviso that in the event of the lessee, his executors, administra- tors and assigns, or successors and assigns (as the case may be) failing, at any time during the continuance of the term of the said lease, to use the demised land for the purpose so specified as aforesaid, without the previous licence or consent of His Majesty, His Heirs, Successors or Assigns, signified in writing by the Governor, then it shall be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs, Successors or Assigns, by the Governor or by any Officer authorized by him in writing, to re-enter on the land, foreshore, and sea bed included in and demised by such lease or any portion thereof in the name of the whole, and thereupon the same shall be forfeited to and vest in the Crown; the lease will also contain in particular a reservation to the Crown of all mines and minerals under the demised land. The lease will also contain a proviso that the lessee is to have the option of renewing the lease for a further term of 75 years at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King.
28th July, 1916,
W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works.
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 150.--Notice is hereby given under Section 3 of the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance, 1901, that all persons having any objections to the granting of the lease as above described must send in particulars of their objections in writing to the Colonial Secretary before the expiration of a period of one month from the 28th day of July, 1916, and all such objections will be considered by the Governor in Council.
And notice is also given that if after the expiration of such period of one month the Governor in Council shall declare it to be expedient to grant a lease of the said Lot, such Lot will be leased, and the Crown Lease of the Lot shall be deemed to demise to the lessee the foreshore or sea bed included in such lease free and discharged from all rights, privileges, profits-á-prendre, and easements, whether public or private, which may have existed or may be claimed in or over such foreshore and sea bed, so far as is necessary for carrying out the purposes for which the land is leased.
28th July, 1916.
No. S. 151.
W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 466.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT---YANGTZE RIVER.
Confucius Channel.
Centaur Lower Buoy to be Moved.
NOTICE is hereby given that on or about the 20th July, 1916, the Centaur Lower Buoy, Confucius Channel, will be moved about N. 89° W., magnetic, distant 5 cables ́ from its present position. Its characteristics will not be changed
W. FERD. TYLER,
Coast Inspector.
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHIM, 17th July, 1916.
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