THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7тu MARCH, 1885.
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Ordinance being the Peak Line and we beg to apply for such consent accordingly If it is granted the enclosed draft Order in Council will require some small verbal amendment which we should be happy to effect if so desired We have the honour to be Sir Your obedient Servants Worrox & DEACON The Honourable W. H. MARSII C.M.G., Colonial Secretary."
AND WHEREAS to the said application a reply was received in the words and figures following that is to say :---
"No. 141 Colonial Secretary's Office Hongkong 11th February 1885 Gentlemen In reply to your letter of the 26th ultimo I am directed to inform you that the Governor in Council has been pleased to assent and approve of the assignment by the Promoters of the Tramways authorised by Ordinance 6 of 1883 to Messrs. P. RERIE and A. FINDLAY SMITH of the privilege of constructing Tramway Number Six (Peak Line) The Governor in Council has also been pleased to approve of the extension for the period of 12 Calendar Months of the time allowed by the Tramways Ordinance 1883 for the substantial com- mencement of the construction of this Tramway As requested I am to return herewith the draft Order in Council for the necessary amendment as suggested by you I am to add that the extension of time granted in the letter from this Office No. 1434 of the 13th October lust is so far as the construction of Tramway Number Six is concerned hereby revoked I have the honour to be Gentlemen Your most obedient Servant-W. H. MARSH Colonial Secretary Messrs. WOTTON & DEACON'"
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"And whereas the said assent and approval of the Governor in Council to the grant hereby made has now been duly given by a formal Order in Council Now this Indenture witnesseth that in pursuance of the said agreement and in consideration of the sum of Two thousand Dollars to the Promoters now paid in equal proportions by the Purchasers (the receipt whereof the Promoters do and each of them doth hereby acknowledge) They the Promoters do and each of them doth hereby grant to the Purchasers their executors administrators and assigns All that the right to construct and maintain the said Tramway Numbered Six in the said Tramways Ordinance 1883 and thereby authorised to be made and all the privileges thereby conferred in so far as the Purchasers or either of them their or any or either of their executors administrators or assigns may desire to exercise the same in respect of or regard to the said Tramway Numbered Six (but saving and excepting unto the Promoters and the Survivors and Survivor of them and their and his Assignees or Assignee the privileges by the said Tramways Ordinance 1883 conferred in so far as the Promoters or the Survivors or Survivor of them or their or his Assignees or Assignee may desire to exercise the same in respect of or regard to the Tramways Numbered 1 2 3 4 and 5 in the said Tramways Ordinance 1883) To have and to hold the said premises hereby granted unto the Purchasers their executors administrators and assigns in equal undivided moieties as tenants in common and not as joint tenants for all the estate and interest of the Promoters and each of them therein. And each of them the Promoters doth hereby for bimself his heirs executors and administrators covenant with each of them the Purchasers his executors administrators and assigns respectively that notwithstanding anything by them the said respective covenanting parties respectively done omitted or knowingly suffered they the Promoters now have power to grant all the said premises hereinbefore granted in manner aforesaid free from incumbrances And that all the said. premises may be quietly entered into and held and enjoyed by the purchasers and each of them their and each and every of their executors administrators and assigns without any interruption by the Promoters or any person claiming through or in trust for them or any or either of them And that they the Promoters and the Survivors or Survivor of them and every person lawfully claiming through or in trust for them or him will at all times at the cost of the Purchasers or one of them their or some or one of their executors administrators or assigns execute and do all such assurances and things for further or better assuring all or any of the said premises unto the Purchasers their executors administrators and assigns as by them shall be reasonably required In witness whereof the said parties hereto have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written Received the day and year first above written of and from the above named PHINEAS RYRIE and ALEXANDER FINDLAY SMITH the sum of Two thousand Dollars being the consideration money above expressed to be paid by them to us"
NOW, it is ordered that the assent and approval of the Governor in Council be given and such nt and approval is hereby given to the said proposed grant.
Council Chamber, Ilongkong, 4th March, 1885.
ARATHOON SETHI,
Clerk of Councils.