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PART IV,-Contd.
Tung Chung, D.D. III,
Lot No. 774. Tung Chung, D.D. III,
Lot No. 1480. Tung Chung, D.D. III,
Lot No. 1528, Tung Chung, D.D. III,
Lot No. 1691. Tung Chung, D.D. III,
Lot No. 1698. Tung Chung, D.D. III,
Lot No. 1739. Tung Chung, D.D. III,
Lo tNo. 1742. Tung Chung, D.D. III,
Lot No. 2082. Lantao Island D.D. 310,
Lot No. 1. Lantao Island D.D. 310,
Lot No. 85. Lantao Island D.D. 312,
Lot No. 475. Lantao Island D.D. 312,
Lot No. 480. Lantao Island D.D. 312,
Lot No. 488. Lantao Island D.D. 312,
Lot No. 494. Lantao Island D.D. 312,
Lot No. 525. Lantao Island D.D. 312,
Lot No. 535. Lantao Island D.D. 312,
Lot No. 595.
Lantao Island D.D. 312,
Lot No. 596. Lantao Island D.D. 312,
Lot No. 687. Lantao Island D.D. 312,
Lot No. 695, Lautao Island D,D. 313,
Lot No. 58. Lantao Island D.D. 313,
Lot No. 275. Lautao Island D.D. 316,
Lot No. 1869. Lautao Island D.D. 316,
Lot No. 1878. Lautao Island D.D. 316,
Lot No. 1916. Lantao Island D.D. 316,
Lot No. 1925. Lantao Island D.D. 316,
Lot No. 1926. Lantao Island D.D. 319,
Lot No. 114. Lantao Island D.D. 319,
Lot No. 115. Lantao Island D.D. 322,
Lot No. 536. Lantao Island D.D. 328,
Lot No. 1324. Lautao Island D.D, 350,
Lot No. 553. Siu Ah Chau Lot No.
53.
Sin Ah Chau Lot No.
54.
Objects and Reasons.
1. The object of this Ordinance is to incorporate the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. It is desirable in many cases that that officer should hold leasehold property on trusts of various kinds and the convenience of incorpora- tion for this purpose is obvious.
2. Section 7 vests in the new corporation the leasehold properties referred to in the Schedule. The Schedulo is divided into four parts. Part I comprises District Watchman stations. Part II contains the Chinese Public Dispensaries. Part III includes various temples and tem- ple properties. Part IV consists of various miscellaneous trusts, e.g., schools.
3. The leasehold properties specified in the Schedule, with one exception, stand, in the respective registers, either in the name of the present substantive holder of the office of Secretary for Chinese Affairs, or in that of a former substantive or acting holder of the office of Registrar General, or under the title "Secretary for Chinese Affairs" or the title "Registrar General". It is clear in all cases that the intention was that the holder of the office for the time being should be able to deal with the legal estate, though this intention seems to have beem imperfectly effected in many of the cases. "Registrar General" was until 1913 the title of the office now known as the
*Secretary for Chinese Affairs". The one exception referred to at the beginning of this paragraph is S.I.L. 142. This is the site of a temple at Shaukiwan. The crown leasc, which is for 999 years, was issued in 1877 in the name of Lam Ah Neung. A long search for Lam Ah Neung resulted in the discovery that there never was any such person as Lam Ab Neung and that the name was only put forward by the villagers to represent the goddess of the temple. In the case of S.I.L. 528, K.I.L, 1647, K.I.L. 1686, K.I.L. 2004, K.I.L. 205, N.K.I.L. 35 and N.K.I.L.