568 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1876.
No. 223.
1
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held at British Kowloon, weather permitting, on Monday, the 18th day of December, 1876, at 2 P.M., are published for general information.
Lithographed Plans of the Lots to be sold, may be obtained at the Surveyor General's Office..
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th December, 1876.
Purticulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 18th day of December, 1876, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Twenty Lots of Crown Land, in the Village of Yau-ma-tee, in the Dependency of British Kowloon, for a term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
Boundary Measurements.
No.
of
Registry No.
Sale.
Contents in
LOCALITY.
Annual Rent.
Upset
Price.
N.
S.
E.
w. Square ft.
feet. fret. feet.
feet.
$
Kowloon Inland Lot.
51
Yau-ma-tee,
50
Do.,
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 10,000 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 10,000
22.95
100.00
22.95
100.00
49
Do.,
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
10,000
22.95
100.00
48
Do.,
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
10,000
22.95
100.00
47
Do.,
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
10,000
22.95
100.00
6
46
Do.,
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
10,000.
22.95
100.00
63
Do.,
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
10,000
22.95
100.00
62
Do.
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
10,000
22.95
100.00
61
Do.,
10
60
Do.,
11
59
Do.,
12
58
Do.,
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 10,000 100.0 100.0 100.9| 1000| 10,000 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 10,000 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 10,000
22.95
100.00
22.95
100.00
22.95
100.00
22.95
100.00
13
57
Do.,
100.0
100.0 96.6 96.6 9,312
21.87
100.00
14
56
Do.,
100.0 100.0 -96.6
96.6
9,312
21.37
100.00
15
104
Do.,
100.0 100.0 105.0 105.0 10,500
24.10
100.00
16
105
Do.,
100.0 100.0 105.0 105.0 10,500
24.10
100.00
17
97
Do.,
18
96
Do.,
19
103
Do.,
20
102
Do.,
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 10,000 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0] 10,000 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 10,000
10,000
22.95
100.00
22.95
100.00
22.95
100.00
22.95
100.00
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 in dispute shall be put up again at a former bidding.
2. No person shall at any bidding advance less than $5.
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 a deposit of one half of the amount of Premium at which the Lot shall have been knocked down, and within one Calendar Month from the day of sale, at the aforesaid Treasury, pay the remaining half of the said premium.
4. The Purchaser of each Lot shall be entitled to and shall execute on demand a Lease from the Crown of the Peace or Parcel of Ground comprised in such Lot for 75 Years, to be computed from the 25th day of December, 1876, 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 hereinbefore contained; and such Crown Lease shall be subject to and contain all Exceptions, Reservations, Cove- nants, Clauses, and Conditions inserted in the Crown Leases of Inland Lots in the Colony of Hongkong. 5. The Purchaser of each Lot shall pay to the Surveyor General on behalf of Her Majesty The QUEEN, a Fee of $5 upon the execution of the Crown Lease thereof.
6. The Purchaser of each Lot shall reclaim and raise the level of the present ground line of the whole area of his Lot, and also that of half the width of the streets adjoining or abutting into the said Lot, to a height of about two feet above the level of High Water mark, Spring Tides, or to such other level, or levels, as shall be given him from time to time by the Surveyor General. The Earth for this purpose to be obtained from such place or places in the immediate neighbourhood as shall be pointed out to the Purchaser by the Surveyor General. The whole of the work referred to herein, to be carried out, executed, and completed by the respective purchasers of each Lot, on or before the 1st day of May, 1877.
7. Should the Purchaser neglect or fail to comply with these Gonditions, his Premium or any portion thereof which may be paid shall be thereupon forfeited to Her Majesty, who shall be at full liberty either to enforce the Sale, or to re-sell the Property at such time and place, and in such manner