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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1888.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 400.
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The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the spot, on Monday. the 10th day of September. 1888, at 5 P.M., are substituted for those published on the 1st instant.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong. 8th September, 1888.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary.
Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 10th day of September, 1888, at 5 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Governor of One Lot of Crown Land, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years.
-No.
of Sale.
Registry No.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Boundary Measurements. Contents
LOCALITY.
in
Annual Upset
Rent.
Price.
N.
E.
w. Square ft.
Rural Building Lot No. 62.
Plunkett's Gap,
feet. feet. feet. feet.
420 666
350
093
94,450
348
3,000
CONDITIONS OF SALE.
1. The highest bidder above the upset price shall be the Purchaser, and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the Lot shall be put up again at a former bidding.
2. No person shall at any bidding advance less than $10.
3. Immediately after the fall of the hammer, the Purchaser shall sign the Memorandum of Agree- ment, hereinafter contained, for completing the purchase according to these Conditions, and shall, within Three Days of the day of sale. pay into the Colonial Treasury the full annount of Premium at which the Lot shall have been purchased.
4. The Purchaser of the Lot shall also pay to the Land Officer, on behalf of Her Majesty the QUEEN, the sum of $10 within three days of the day of Sale, for and in consideration of the Boundary Stones, properly cut, fixed, and marked with the Registry Number, which shall be placed by the Surveyor General, for the Purchaser, at each angle of the Lot.
5. The Purchaser of the Lot shall also pay to the Land Officer, on behalf of Her Majesty The QUEEN, a Fee of $15 upon the execution of the Crown Lease thereof.
6. The Purchaser of the Lot shall build and finish, fit for occupation, before the expiration of twelve calendar months from the day of sale, in a good, substantial and workmanlike manner. one or more good and permanent messuages or tenements upon some part of his Lot, and shall expend thereon a sum of not less than $4.000 (Four thousand Dollars). No houses other than buildings of the character and design usually tenanted by Europeans and having the necessary European out-offices The Purchaser of the Lot shall construct and appurtenances, will be allowed to be built on the lot.
all the necessary pipe drains to carry off the waste and refuse water from the main building or main buildings, cook-house. and out-offices, and conduct the said waste and refuse water into the nearest Government sewer; such drains to be constructed of material and in a manner approved of by the Surveyor General. Plans of such drains, shewing full particulars to be deposited in the Office of the Surveyor General. No sewage or refuse water other than rain water from the roofs of buildings will be allowed to flow on, to any of the adjoining lands, whether belonging to the Crown or to private persons, neither shall any decaying, noisome, noxious, excrementitious, or other refuse matter he deposited on any portion of the Lot. The Crown Lessee shall see that all refuse matters are removed. daily from off the premises.
7. The Purchaser of the Lot shall pay into the Treasury a proportionate part of the annual rental specified in the particulars hereinbefore contained on the 25th day of December next, and thereafter shall pay such annual rental by equal half yearly payinents on the 24th day of June, and the 25th day of December in every Year.
8. When the conditions herein contained have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General the Purchaser of the Lot shall be entitled to, and shall execute on demand, a Lease from the Crown of the Piece of Ground comprised in such Lot for 75 Years, to be computed from the day of Sale, at such Annual Rental, payable half-yearly on the 24th day of June, and the 25th day of December in every Year, as is specified in the Particulars of such Lot herein before contained; and such Crown Lease shall be subject to, and contain, all Exceptions. Reservations, Covenants, Clauses, and Conditions inserted in the Crown Leases of Rural Building Lots in the Colony of Hongkong.