517
day of
This Endenture,
made the
Between OuR SOVEREIGN LADY
One thousand eight hundred and
VICTORIA, by the GRACE of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen,
Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, of the one part, and
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of the other part. Whereas by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, made and dated at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of January in the Fifty-first Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, it is provided that the Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, in the Name of Her said Majesty, and on Her behalf may make and execute, under the Public Seal of the said Colony, grants and dispositions of any Lands which may be lawfully granted or disposed of by Her said Majesty, provided that every such grant or disposition be made in conformity either with some law in force in the Colony or with some Instructions addressed to the Governor under Her Majesty's Sign Martial and Signet or through one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or with some regulations in force in the Colony; And WHEREAS Sir George WILLIAM DES Vœux, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, is now the duly constituted and appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies; Now this Indenture witnesseth, that in consideration of the yearly rent, covenants and stipulations 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, Doth hereby grant and demise, unto the said
Executors, Administrators and Assigns, All that piece or parcel of Ground situate lying and being
in the said Colony of Hongkong,
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