commission without adequate
cause:
a
tracing
Fattach herewith showing the roads round the Military ground and the levels
of the latter above the sea and
adjoining land
(signed) P.M. Price,
the
4th Marin
Surveyor General :
I
This Indenture,
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of two parts, made the
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 crected 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 trast, 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 aforesaid, bearing date the
day of Year of the Reigu of Her said Majesty,
in the
was constituted and
appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies; AND WHEREAS by certain Instructions addressed by the Right Honorable the EARL OF KIMBERLEY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, on behalf of Her said Majesty, to the said.
as suck Governor of Hongkong as aforesaid, and dated the Sixth day of March, 1873, the said Governor was instructed and empowered to grant Lesses of Land in the said Colony belonging to Her said Majesty situated in the British Peninsula of Kowloon for Short Terms and upon certain conditions for Garden Purposes: How this Indenture witnesscth, that in consideration of the yearly rents, covenants, 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, HER SAID MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, by those presents Both 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 Kowloon in the said Colony of Hongkong,
together with all easements, profits, commodities and appurtenances whatsoever to the said denised premises belonging, or in any wise appertaining. EXCEPT AND ALWAYS RESERVED anto Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, al! Mines, Minerals and Quarries of Stone in, under and upon the said premises, and all such Earth, Soil, 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 Hor said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns may require for the Roads, Public Buildings, or other Public Purposes of the said Colony of Hongkong; with full liberty of Ingress, Egress and Regress, to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigus, and Her and their agents, servants and workmen, at reasonable times in the year during the continuance of this demise, with or without horses, carts. carriages and all other necessary things into, upon, from and out of all or any part or parts of the premises herein before domised, to view, dig for, convert and carry away, the said excepted Minerals, Stone, Earths and other things respectively, or any part or parts thereof respectively, thereby doing as little damage as possible to the said
Executors, Administrators or Assigns; AND SAVE AND EXCEPT also full power
to make and conduct in, through and under the said hereby demised premises, all and any public or common sewers, drains or
watercourses.
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