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DROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette
No. 36.
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號六十三第
EXTRAORDINARY.
特 門轅 轅港 香
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, TUESDAY, 1ST AUGUST, 1905.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 482.
The following Order is published.
By Command,
F. H. MAY,
Colonial Secretary.
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.Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st August, 1905.
ORDER
Made by the Governor in Council under Section 4 of the New♦
Territories Land Ordinance, 1905, (Ordinance No. 2
of 1905) this 31st day of July, 1905,
It is hereby ordered that there shall be established two District Land Offices for the purposes
of carrying out the provisions of the New Territories Land Ordinance, 1905, and it is further ordered that for the purposes of the said Ordinance the New Territories shall be divided into two districts, viz. :—
(A.) One district to be hereafter called and known as the "Northern District to include the whole of the New Territories situate on the mainland excepting such portion thereof as is known as New Kowloon and including all islands which are East of Longitude 114.10 and North of Latitude 22.15 excepting the islands of Tunglung, Futau Chau and Slope Island.
(B.) Another district to be called the "Southern District" to include that portion of the New Territories known as "New Kowloon" and the remainder of the islands in the New Territories not included in the Northern District.
And it is further ordered that the Office for the Northern District shall be situate at Tai Po in the New Territories and the Office for the Southern District shall be situate at the building known as Beaconsfield in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 31st July, 1905.
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.