THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 16, 1907. 1045
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
No. 546.-Particulars and Conditions of Sale of the right of erecting and maintaining a Temporary Pier over Crown Foreshore opposite Road North of Kowloon Marine Lot 87, Yaumati, to be held at the Offices of the Public Works Department by order of His Excellency the Governor, ou Monday, the 26th day of August, 1907, at 3 p.m., for a term of 1 year commencing from the 1st day of September, 1907.
PARTICULARS OF THE PIER.
No. of Sale.
Position.
Largest Dimensions.
Upset price.
Opposite Road North of Kowloon Marine Lot
No. 87, Yaumati.
100' x 15'
$400
1. The right to erect and maintain this Pier will be for a period of 1 year from 1st September, 1907.
2. The Pier to be erected shall be subject in all respects to the provisions of Ordinance No. 11 of 1899 and of any amending Ordinance hereafter passed and rent shall be paid in accordance with the Schedule attached to said Ordinance and shall commence from the 1st September, 1907.
3. The Pier shall not exceed the dimensions specified, but a Pier of less dimensions may be erected by the lessee.
4. The highest bidder above the upset price shall be the Purchaser and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the site shall be put up again at a former bidding.
5. No person shall at any bidding advance less than $10.
6. The Purchaser must pay into the Treasury, within three days of the day of sale, the full amount of Premium at which he shall have agreed to purchase.
7. The area of the Pier to be calculated on the over-all dimensions at deck level, is, including fenders, whether vertical or horizontal.
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8. Any vessels lying alongside the Pier must not project beyond the end of the Pier.
9. Should the Purchaser neglect or fail to comply with these conditions, his Premium or any portion thereof which may be paid, shall be thereupon forfeited to His Majesty, who shall be at full liberty either to enforce the sale or to re-sell the right to erect and maintain such Pier, at such time and place, and in such manner as to His Majesty shall seem fit, and in case of re-sale the increase, if any, of the Premium or purchase money, shall be retained by His Majesty, and the deficiency, if any, and all costs and expenses, shall be made good by the defaulter and be recoverable as liquidated damages, or at the option and pleasure of His Majesty. His Majesty shall be at liberty to cancel such right to erect and maintain a Pier as if no sale had ever taken place, in which case also the Premium paid by the Purchaser shall be thereupon wholly forfeited to His Majesty. But such cancellation shall not exonerate the present Purchaser upon a subsequent re-sale of the right to erect and maintain such Pier to make good the deficiency, if any, upon such re-sale and all costs and expenses as ascertained to be recoverable as aforesaid.
SPECIAL CONDITION.
The Licence to be renewable from year to year, during the pleasure of the Govern- ment, subject to prepayment of the whole of the Crown Rent, plus a sum equal to the Premium orginally paid for the right of erecting the pier. The question of renewing or not to be decided three months before the expiry of the licence in any year.
Director of Public Works.