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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 5, 1907.
CONDITIONS OF LETTING.
1. The Lots are delineated on plaus deposited in the Public Works Office.
2. The Person, whose tender may be accepted in writing for any or all of the Lots. shall pay into the Colonial Treasury, within Seven Days of the date of such acceptance, a sum equivalent to six months' rent of such Lot or Lots and shall also, within the same period, deposit in the Colonial Treasury approved security equal in value to at least one year's rent for each Lot, as a guarantee for the fulfilment of his tender. He shall then be entitled to and shall execute, on demand, a Lease or Leases from the Crown of the pieces of ground comprised in such Lot or Lots for 3 years and 5 months, at the Rental or Rentals specified in his tender, payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st day of January and 1st day of July in every year; such Lease being in the printed form marked Form A. and deposited in the Land Office.
3. The Government will permit cach Lessee to erect and maintain such temporary piers and 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 and 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 any party whose tender is accepted fail to comply with these conditions or any of them, the sum deposited by him shall be forfeited to the Government and the tender or tenders made by him shall thereupon be deemed to be cancelled, and he shall be liable to make good any loss or damage which the Government may incur through his failure to comply with such conditions.
W. CHATHAM,
5th July, 1907.
No. 456.
TRANSLATION.
Director of Public Works.
Notification No. 361 of Department of Communications.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
TENPOZAN LIGHTHOUSE, OSAKA. CHANGE OF THE LENS. NOTICE is hereby given that the lens of Tenpozan lighthouse has been changed into 5th order fixed white light of 140 candle power and 11 miles for range of visibility at clear weather as had been notified last month.
YAMAGATA ISABURO, Minister of State for Communications.
TOKYO, June 13th, 1907.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 300 (Special).
CHINA SEA.
FOOCHOW DISTRICT.
Min Reef Whistling and Niuta Rock Buoys.
REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 295 (Special), Notice is hereby given that the Min Reef Whistling Buoy has been replaced and that, in consequence of the extension of the sandbank which extends from the Niuta Rock to the Northward, the Niuta Rock Buoy has been shifted 140 yards North of its former position.
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 26th June, 1907.
T. J. ELDRIDGE,
Acting Coast Inspector.