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No. S. 187.It is hereby notified that the following Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction will be held at the Police Station, Au Tau, at 11 a.m., on Thursday, the 8th day of August, 1918.
The Lots are sold for the term of Seventy-five years from the 1st day of July, 1898, with the right of renewal for a further term of 24 years less 3 days at a re-assessed Crown Rent as an Agricultural Lot subject to the General Conditions of Sale published in Govern- ment Notification No. 365 of 1906 and to the Special Conditions hereunder specified.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Boundary Measurements.
Registry No.
Locality.
Contents in Upset
Acres.
Price.
N.
9.
E.
W.
Annual Crown Rent.
No. D. D. Lot.
570
Castle Peak.
1
131
As per plan deposited in the District Office, Tai Po.
28.80
$1 for the
380
571
9.20
17
""
first three
years and
$38 thereafter subject to
re-assess- ment.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS.
1. No building shall be erected on the Lot other than such as may in the opinion of the Land Officer be necessary for the proper occupation of the Lot as agricultural land. For all land occupied by such buildings, whenever erected, the purchaser shall pay additional premium and Crown Rent at the rate which shall then be in force.
2. The purchaser shall within three years from the date of sale construct bunds on the Lot in such position, in such manner and of such material as the Director of Public Works may approve and generally to his satisfaction in every respect and shall maintain the same in good order, condition and repair to the satisfaction of the Land Officer during the whole period for which the Lot is sold.
3. The purchaser shall within three years from the date of sale reclaim and convert the land into agricultural land to the satisfaction of the Land Officer.
4. After the expiration of the said three years, the purchaser shall not, during the remainder of the term for which the Lot is sold, permit or allow the land to remain uncultivated according to the custom of the country for a period of five consecutive years and a covenant to that effect shall be inserted in the Crown Lease of the Lot.
5. The Crown Rent mentioned in the Particulars of Sale is subject to re-assessment at the end of the first twenty-five years from the date on which the Lot is sold, and thereafter rent at a rate not exceeding $2 an acre shall be paid, as is deemed fair and reasonable by the Surveyor to His Majesty the King or by such other person as shall be appointed by the Governor of Hongkong for that purpose, and a special proviso to that effect shall be inserted in the Crown Lease of the Lot.
6. The purchaser shall not have or be entitled to any right of access to any water which may be near the Lot or on which the same abuts or to any compensation whatever · in the event of any reclamation being made between any part of the Lot and such water and a special proviso to that effect shall be inserted in the Crown Lease of the Lot.
7. The purchaser shall not divert nor fill in any creek, stream or channel within the Lot without the permission of the Land Officer.
8. The purchaser shall make proper provision for the discharge of all surplus water from the Lot in such a manner as to prevent flooding or other damage to adjoining or neighbouring lands.
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