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No. S. 52. It is hereby notified that the following Letting of the right to quarry stone on Crown Land will be held by Public Auction at the District Land Office, Hong- kong, at 11 a.m., on Wednesday, the 27th day of March, 1918.
The Letting will be for the term of three years from the 1st day of April, 1918, for Quarrying Granite subject to the Special Conditions hereunder specified.
PARTICULARS OF THE QUARRIES.
Quarry No.
Locality.
Boundary Measurements.
Estimated area in Acres.
Upset Monthly Crown Rent.
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Lot No. 1. Chu Lap Kok. As per plan deposited in the District Land Office of the Southern District of the New Territories, Hong- kong.
230 Acres.
$50
SPECIAL CONDITIONS.
1. The area to be quarried is shown on a plan deposited in the District Land Office, Hongkong.
2. The highest bidder shall immediately after the sale deposit in the District Land Office, Hongkong, a sum equivalent to three months' rent of such Lot as security for the rent and the fulfilment of these conditions. He shall then be entitled to and shall execute, on demand, a Lease from the Crown of the piece of ground comprised in such Lot for three years from the 1st day of April, 1918, at the rental at which the same was purchased, and payable monthly in advance on the 1st day of each month: such Lease being in the printed form deposited in the District Land Office, Hongkong.
3. The Government will permit, if practicable, the Lessee to crect and maintain such temporary piers or jetties, as may, in the opinion of the Director of Public Works, be reasonably necessary for the purpose of shipping stone cut in the leased quarries into junks or boats; the sites and dimensions of such temporary piers or jetties shall be subject in all respects to the approval of the Director of Public Works, who may at any time direct the removal of any such temporary pier or jetty to any other place, the expense of such removal to be borne by the Lessee.
4. Should the Lessee fail to comply with these conditions the sum deposited by him shall be forfeited to the Government, and he shall be liable to make good any loss or damage which the Government may incur through his failure to comply with such condi- tions.
Sth March, 1918.
P. JACKS,
Land Officer.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 53. It is hereby notified that sealed tenders in duplicate, which should. be clearly marked "Tender for the supply of Boots for Police Reserve ", will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon of Friday, the 15th March, 1918, for the supply of the undermentioned Boots for the Hongkong Police Reserve, viz.:-
More or less--400 pairs of Boots.
No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $50 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown, if such person fails or refuses to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted.
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