THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH SEPTEMBER, 1864.
standing that formal Possession thereof may have been taken by, or given to any other Person.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 5th Day of September, 1864.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils,
Name, &c., of the Person making or giving the Bill of Sale, or of the Person divested of Property.
Name, &c., of the
Person to whom made or given.
SCHEDULE.
Whether Bill of Sale, Assignment, Transfer,
or what other Assu- rance, and whether Absolute or Conditional, and Number.
Date of Execu-
tion.
Date of Filing.
Sum for which made or
given.
When and how
payable.
MINUTE BY THE GOVERNOR.
Under Instructions from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, His Excellency the GOVERNOR is pleased to direct that in the case of the Surveyor General and Assistant Surveyor General, when debarred from private practice, those Officers shall be allowed the benefit of Five additional Years in regard of Pension on the ground of Professional Services, as in the cases of the Judge of the Summary Jurisdiction Court, and the Colonial Chaplain; and the Pension Minute of 5th May, 1862, (published in the Government Gazette of 29th November, 1862,) is accordingly hereby amended in this respect.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd September, 1864.
No. 135.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The question of compensation for the Chinese dispossessed from the South West point of Kowloon Peninsula having now been disposed of, it becomes necessary to consider the position of the Chinese Owners and Occupiers of Land and Houses in the remainder of that district.
The propriety of this measure will be apparent from the inconvenience of two different systems of tenure within the Colony and the possible injury that would befal such Owners and Occupiers if a title in law were not granted them for their respective holdings, sufficient under the altered circum- stances of occupancy.
All persons therefore having proprietary claims as above are called on to send in a statement of their titles, with full particulars as to the position and extent of their holdings to Lieut. WILLIAMS, R.E., on or before 30th September next; when to all able to substantiate their claims Crown Leases for 999 years will be granted free of expense, subject only to the same rent as they were formerly liable for to the Chinese Government.
Occupiers of Lands or Houses within the territory lately ceded, who shall not be provided with Crown Leases after the 1st January next, will be considered Squatters and held liable to be dispossessed at any time, subject to the payment of Squatters' Rent until such dispossession.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th August, 1864.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,
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