Exzenters, Administrators and Assigns shall be allowed the farther Period of Three Months without Payment of any Roman remove any growing crops then on the Land. IN WITNESS whereof the said
in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and
duly authorized by Her said Majesty as aftermaid bath excented these Prozents, and hereunto set the Fublic Seal of the Colony or Hongkong aforesaid, it the name and on behalf of Her suid Majesty the day and year first above vzitten,
This Indenture, of two parts, suade the
Day of LADY VICTORIA, by the GRACE of GOD of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Quich, Defender of the Faith, of the me pari, aki
Examined and Certified in be correct.
Surveyor-General.
Registered.
201
between OUR SOVEREIGN
of the other part
WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and freund, made and dated at Westminster the Fifth day of April in the Sixth year of the Leign of Her said Majesty, the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies were erected Suto a Colony, dust full power and authority to the Governor of the sun Colony of Hongkong for the time being were given and granted in the Name of Her said Majesty, and on Her bobal (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 Hor sail Majesty.) to unbe and execute in the Name and on the behalf of Iler said Majesty, unier the Public Seal of the said Colony, Grants of hand, to Her said Majesty belonging, within the said Colony, to privat. Parsons for their own use pad bonelit, or to any Puestos, lions politic or corporate, in trust for the public uses of Her said Majesty's Subjects there resident, or any of then; AND WHEREAS by certain other Letters Patent under the Great Seal as abresal, bearing late the
Year of the Boigy of Her said. Majesty,
was constituted and appointed Governor and Conroander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong wad its Dependencies; AND WHEREAS he 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 Apri. 1843, the said Governor was, amongst other things, instructed to grant Liece of the Land in the eid Colony belonging to Her said Majesty: NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that in sideration of the yearly Heut, and Covenants hereinafter rosurved, by and on the part and behalf of the ssid Executors, Administentore, and Assigns, to be paid, doue, and performed, HER SAID MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA bath denised, lensed, and to farm let, and by those presents Doth demise, lease, and to thri lor, auto the said
Executors, Administrators, mal Assigns, subject to the Conditions, Reservations, and Provisoes hereinafter mentioned; All that piece o paseel of Ground lying and situate in the
Colony of Hongkong
with all the Rights aui Appartenances whatsoever thereto belonging; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aid piece or parcel of Ground and Promises hereby demisel, or intended so to be with their and every of their Appurtenances, to the said
Exeratora, Administrators, or Assigns from the
Fay of
for, and during, and auto the tall end and torva of
Years Urnes next cosaing, and fully to be complete and ended, with tali and perfect Herry during the said torm to turn our Cattle, Sheep, or other Spock upon tim waste er uncultivated Mills adjoining the said piece or parcel of Ground hereby denised, or intended so to be; yielding at paying therefor Yearly and every Year the Som of
in current Money of the said Colony of Hongkong, hy Half-perly Payments, on the Twenty-fourth day of Juus and the Twenty-fith day of December in each Year, fose and clear of and from all. Taxes, Rotca, Charges, fapositions, and Assessments whatsoever, imposed or to be imposed upon or in repect of the said hereby denisel Premises, or any part thereof, during the teria haceby groned, the first Minifyearly Payment of the seid Youly Rent or Sun to be trade my the
day f
And He said Majesty doth hereby naarve unto Her said Majesty, Her Hein, Srecnessory, and Assigna, full Power to resume and take possession of all or any pact of the sald Groound hereby demised, if required for any pablie Way or Ways, or for the Improvement of the Colony, or for any public purpose whatever, Three Calender Months' notice being ghen to the Occupant thereof of its being so required, and a full and fair Compensation for the waid Lunch, and the Fappivements there, being paid to the said
Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, at a
Valvation to be žirly and inpertially made by Twe Arbitrators, the one to be eppolitol on bebaff of Her Majesty, Her lluirs, Successors, or Assigns, the other by the said
for
Executors, Administrators,
or Asaigus, from the then existing List of Special Jurors in the said okay, with Power to the stad Arbitrators, in the event of their disagreeing as to the Vaine aforesand to nonite and call in a Third Person, is and for an Umpice: Provided always, that the Nathe of bir Third Feror, shall also at the time of his Appointment, be standing on the said List of Specird Jurors for the said Colony. AND ALSO Her said Majesty doth further reserve in mange aforesaid, all Stour and Grusel, mind all other alaterials upon or under the mud Land, which may be requirod, at any time or thes hereafter, the the Construction of any Public Buildings, Ways, or Bridges, or for any other public purpose of purposes, together with the Right of taking and removing the same; AND ALSO, el Mines and Minerals, with fall and free liberty and power to search for, dig, and take away the sume, a full and für Compensation for all such Damage that the sail Land and Improvements thereon may sustin, bưởng peid to the sail
Executors, Administrators, or Assique, at a Valuation to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Ifer said Majesty, in which add Valuation, the benchit to accrue to the wid Executors, Administrators, or Assigna for any such Public Purpose shall be allowed by way of set odd" against any. Danugo be or they umy sustain be consequence of such resumption or otherwise; and in the event of the said
Executora, Aluzinistrators, or Assigns disputing the fairness of the said Valuation, Arbitzutors and Umpire shall be appolated in the manner bereinbetten mentioned and provided: AND ALSO, all Timber, Tracs, Woods, and Underwoods, now standing, growing, or being, or which at any time dering the teen hurong granted shail stast, grow, or be in or upon the said demised Premises, or any part thereof, with liberty to and for Her said Majesty, Her Hera, bancossers, and Assigns to sell, cut down, take, and carry sway the same; AND ALSO, the right of full sad free Ingresa Egress, and Regress, no, out of, and upon the said Land for the said purposes aforesaid. And the said
Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, doll jereby covenant, promise, and agree to and with Her sak Majesty, Her Bains, Successors, and Assigns, by these presents in manner following, that is to say, that tho said
Heirs. Execute, Administrazzrs, or Assigns shall and will Yearly and every Year during the said Tuem of
Years hereby granted, truly pey or cause to be paid to Her Bait Majesty, der Heirs, Successors, and Assigns the Yearly Reut above reserved, clear of all Taxe and Deductions as aforesaid, ou the serrural dogs and thnes, and in the manner hereinbeface reserved and made payable; and that the soid
fleira, Executors. Adainistrators, and Assigns, ebolf and will, during all the sid teene hereby granted, bear, pay, and disclunge all Taves. Curges, and Espositiess whatsoever, now or to be hereafter asseared, charged ne imposed on the said Promises hereby demisof, or any part thereof; And that the suid
Hairs, Exestors, Administratora, and Assigos will keep the said Promisos hereby domised well and suficiently dressed, and prevent any secnunulation of Water thereon, shall keep in clor, good, and endlicient repair, all Ditcirca Dering, and Waver-courses thereon, and shudi end will leave the sune well and suficicnly repaired at the end of the sad term; AND ALSO that
Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, will multikute or use the squad in a husband-like nutmer, and surrender the same up in goud orilee and conditioned at the expiration of the said term of
Heirs, Exer utora Administrators, and Assigne doth further cuvant and agree, that or Occupation of the said Premises on a Furia; AND ALSO Get
the seid erect any Buildings or Slide within Thirry Feet of my Public Read or Way, And the said
will prevent any Stock, that
mny turn mud for pasturage us timesaid on the waste or uncultivated Hilja odjoining the said Prenisce, from injuring any Thaber on the said Hilla; and that by the Governor of Hongkong for the thue being, or any Agent duly authorized by
in dat behalf of the said Hills, or any part thereof being required for any purpose whatever, cease to turn out on pasture, Calido, Sheop, Horaes, or other Sterk upon the said ifilis or any part thereof, su require as aforesaid. Provided always, and these presenta are upon this express condition, that if the said Yearly Bent of
shall be in screw and anguid by the space of Twenty-one Days next over or alter any or either of the said days whereon the sume ought to be paid as aforesaid, or in case of breach or non-performances of any or either of the other Covenants, Clauses, Conditions, Agreements, ve Pro- risions herein contained, by and on the part and bobslf of the guid
Excentors, Administrators, and Assigns, to be kept, done, and perfumed,bun, and in either of the said cases, from them and ut ali rive thereafter, it shall and may be lawful to and for Der aid Majesty, Her Hairs, Successors, or Assigas, by the Governor of Hongkong or other person duly authorized in that bebalt into and apst the sukl hurchy denised Premises, or my part theroof in the state of the whole, to re-enter, wad the same to bare again, retain, repissése, and enjoy, as in fler or their first or former Estate, us in these Presents had not boso mede; and the said
Executors. Administrators, and Assigns, not all other Ocapices of the wid Precizes thereout and thence utterly to expel, put ont, and anove, this Indenture, or any thing contained hatriu to the contrary nooithstanding, IN WITNESS whercef
bath hereunto set
Hand and Seal, the day and year first above written.
given
the said
the spid
Years: And the said
fir
will not orect any Buildings or Dwelling-houses on the sano except what may be reprod for the due Cultivation. Exccuto Adorizésterrors, ond. Assigns, will not Heirs, Excertors, Adhuindairazors, on Assigns, doth hovelty proanise and agree that will, on one Calendar Mum's notice being
Signed Scaled and Delivered at Victoria, Hongkong, In the pressure of
Examined and Certised to be Correct,
Registered.
Surceyor General.