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SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 476.

CHINA SEA.

Chefoo District: Chefoo Harbour.

ENTRANCE TO INNER HARBOUR UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

Buoy to be moved.

NOTICE is hereby given that on or about the 20th February, 1917, the black Buoy (gas-lighted) moored off the northern end of the Breakwater at the entrance to the Inner Harbour under construction at Chefoo will be moved about 500 feet N. 27° W., magnetic, from its present position.

(See plan accompanying Notice to Mariners No. 630.)

W. FERD. TYLER,

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 15th February, 1917.

Coast Inspector.

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 40. The following description and terms of the proposed lease of certain Crown Land at Hung Hom, comprising portions of the foreshore and sea bed, are published under the provisions of the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance, 1901.

DESCRIPTION OF THE AREAS PROPOSED TO BE LEASED.

As shewn coloured red and blue on plan signed by the Director of Public Works. which can be seen at the Office of the Public Works Department.

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 areas to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, it is proposed to grant a Crown Lease of the whole of the areas coloured red and blue on the said plan and having a total area of 309,825 square feet for the term of 99 years, commencing from 24th December, 1906, renewable for a further term of 99 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 (ie., 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 99 years at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King.

W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works.

16th February, 1917.

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