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any private individual, as it projects into the Parade and reduces its size very materially. It is therefore most desirable that the Colonial Government should retain its right to it, until the owners are prepared to cut it down, like the rest, in order to enlarge the Parade.
If this proposal should be at all injurious to Mr. Johnston's interests, I beg leave to suggest that the Colonial Government should be requested to remunerate him as it cannot be expected the Ordnance will do so when they have already paid so much for improving this part of the Town.
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day of between OUR SOVEREIGN LADY VICTORIA, by the GRACE of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith of the one part, and
of the other part
WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, made and dated at Westminster, the fifth day of April in the sixth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, the Island of Hongkong, and its Dependencies were erected into a Colony, and full power and authority, to the Governor of the said Colony of Hongkong for the time being, were given and granted in the Name of Her said Majesty, and on Her behalf (but subject nevertheless to such provisions, as might be in that respect contained in any Instructions which might from time to time be addressed to him, by Her said Majesty,) to make, and execute in the Name, and on the behalf of Her said Majesty, under the Public Seal of the said Colony, grants of land to Her said Majesty belonging, within the said Colony, to private persons for their own use and benefit, or to any persons, bodies politic or corporate in trust for the public uses of Her said Majesty's Subjects there resident, or any of them; AND WHEREAS by certain other Letters Patent under the Great Seal as foresaid, bearing date the Twenty-third day of February in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquire, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects Trading in China, was constituted and appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies; AND WHEREAS by certain Instructions of Her said Majesty, addressed to the then Governor of Hongkong, under Her said Majesty's Signet, and Sign Manual and dated the sixth day of April 1843, the said Governor was, amongst other things, instructed to grant Leases of the Land in the said Colony belonging to Her said Majesty; NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that in consideration of the yearly rents, conditions, and agreements, hereinafter reserved and contained, by and on the part and behalf of the said executors, administrators, and assigns, to be paid, done, and performed, and also of the sum of five current dollars, which are at this time a legal tender in the said Colony of Hongkong, in hand paid to the said John Francis Davis, as Governor of the said Colony for the use of Her said Majesty by the said
at or before the Sealing and Delivery of these Presents, the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged; HER SAID MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, Hath demised, leased, and to farm let, and by these presents Doth demise, lease and to farm let, unto the said executors, administrators, and assigns,
ALL that piece or parcel of ground, situate, lying, and being at Victoria in the said Island of Hongkong,
together with all easements, profits, commodities, and appurtenances whatsoever, to the said demised premises belonging, or in any wise appertaining. EXCEPT 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 hereby 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 occupier 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 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, and in which said valuation, the benefit to accrue to the said heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns from any such improvement, or public purpose shall be allowed by way of Set off against any damage, he, or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid; EXCEPT AND RESERVED ALSO all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries of stone in under and upon the said premises, and all such marl, clay, chalk, brick earth, gravel, sand, stone, and stones, and other earths or materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise, shall be under, or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof as Her said Majesty, her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns may require for the roads, public buildings, or other public purposes of the said Colony of Hongkong.