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THIS
September One thousand eight hundred and Ninety five
BETWEEN Our Sovereign Lady 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, į
and THE TAI KOO SUGAR REFINING COMPANY LIMITED whose
registered Office is at No.22 Billiter Street in the
City of London (hereinafter called the said Company) 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
INDEN TUAE made the Second day of
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 Hong Kong, in the Name of Her said Majesty,
and on Her benalf 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 disposi-
tion be made in confirmity either with some law in force
in the Colony or with some Instructions addressed to the
Governor under Her Majesty's Sign Manual 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 William Robinson Knight Commander of the
Most Distinguished Order of Sain Michael and Saint George, in now the duly constituted and appointed Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hong Kong,
and its Dependencies: NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESS TH,
that in consideration of the sum of forty three thousand
and eventy three dollars and sixty cents current money
of the said Colony of Hongkong, paid into the Treasury
of the said Colony for the use of Her said Majesty by
the said Company (the receipt whereof is hereby acknow-
-ledged) and in consideration of the yearly rent,
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