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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 30.
No. 91.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH JULY, 1868.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. XIV.
Whereas by an Indenture bearing date the 4th Day of October, 1844, and made between Our Sovereign Lady QUEEN VICTORIA of the one part, and one ANGUS FLETCHER of the other part, Her said Majesty did demise to the said ANGUS FLETCHER, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, a certain Piece or Parcel of ground situate and being at Victoria in this Colony, and particularly mentioned and described in the said Indenture, (except as in the said Indenture is excepted and) except amongst other things and always reserved unto Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns full power to resume and take possession of all or any part of the said piece or parcel of Ground thereby demised if required for the improvement of the said Colony of Hongkong, or for any other public purpose whatsoever, Three Calendar Months notice being given to the Occupant thereof of its being so required, and a full and fair compensation for the said land and the buildings thereon being paid to the said ANGUS FLETCHER, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, at a valuation to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, To have and to hold the said piece or parcel of ground unto the said ANGUS FLETCHER, his executors, administrators and assigns from the First Day of February then last past for the full end and term of Seventy-five Years from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended yielding and paying therefor as in the said Indenture is expressed:
And Whereas Her said Majesty did on the First Day of January, 1867, resume and take possession of that part of the said piece or parcel of Ground then lying between the Building then erected on Marine Lot No. 21 and the Ground then occupied by the Commissariat and registered in the Land Office in the name of Her Majesty's Principal Officers of Ordnance and extending from Queen's Road to the Sea; such part having been required for the improvement of this Colony, and Three Calendar Months notice having been previously given to the Occupant thereof of its being required:
And Whereas at a valuation fairly and impartially made by WILBERFORCE WILSON, Esquire, the Surveyor of Her said Majesty the sum of $3,854 was directed to be paid to the said ANGUS FLETCHER, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns as and by way of a full and fair com- pensation for the said part of the land so resumed and taken possession of as aforesaid:
It is hereby notified that the said sum of $3,854 has been since the date aforesaid, and is now standing in the Treasury of this Colony to the credit of the person or persons entitled thereto as aforesaid, and will be paid by the Treasurer to such person or persons, upon application duly made to him in that behalf.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th July, 1868.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CROWN RENTS.
Crown Lessees are reminded that the period allowed to pay into the Treasury the Rents due on the 24th June last, expired on the 15th instant.
Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th July, 1868.
W. H. ALEXANDER,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.