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No. 64.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH MARCH, 1872.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice from the Honorable the Acting Colonial Treasurer is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th March, 1872.
NOTICE.
Owners of Tenements assessed to the Police, Lighting, Water and Fire Brigade Rates, are informed that the Rates for the Second Quarter of the year 1872 are payable in advance during and within the month of April next.
Rate-payers are requested to take notice that Parties in default in payment of Rates after the period specified, are liable to be sued in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction.
Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 30th March, 1872.
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.
No. 55.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the spot, on the 5th day of April, 1872, at 4.30 P.M., are published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th March, 1872.
Particulars and Conditions of the Letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Friday, the 5th day of April, 1872, by Order of His Excellency The Governor, of a certain Lot of Crown Land in the Colony of Hongkong for a Term of 999 years.
No. Regis.
of
try
Sale.
No.
1
Robinson Road,.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
LOCALITY.
Measurement of Boundaries. Contents
in
Annual Upset
N.
E.
8.
W.
Square ft.
Rent.
Price.
$
$
100 155 100
145
15,000
9.90
350
CONDITIONS OF SALE.
1. The highest bidder above the upset price shall be the Purchaser, and if any dispute arise the Lot shall be put up again at the former bidding.
2. No person shall advance at any one bidding less than $50, or retract his or her bidding.
3. Immediately after the fall of the hammer, the Purchaser shall sign the Memorandum of Agreement 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 the Lot shall at his own expense be entitled to and shall execute on demand a Lease from the Crown of the Piece or Parcel of Ground comprised in such Lot for 999 years, to be computed from the 24th day of December, 1871, at such Annual Rental payable half yearly on the 24th day of December, and the 24th day of June 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 the excep- tions, reservations, covenants, clauses, and conditions usually inserted in the Crown Leases of Inland Lots in the Colony of Hongkong.
5. Such Houses only as in the opinion of His Excellency the Governor shall be suitable for occupation by Europeans will be allowed to be erected on the above Lot.