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Company lapses at the end of this year. I should
therefore be glad to have your approval by telegraph.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
Line
Governor, &c.
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FORM FOR HONG KONG AND OLD KOWLOON.
Particulars and Conditions
Reg No..............
of Sale by Private Contract by Order of
His Excellency the Governor of.....one
Tau Kok
rod
Lot of Crown Land at.
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in the Colony of Hong Kong, shown. Coloured
on the attached plan, for a term of 75 years with the option of
renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King,
for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Boundary Measurements.
Registry No.
Locality.
Contents in
N.
S. E. W. X**X**X
Annual Rental.
Premium.
feet, feet, feet, feet, About
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$
$
Kowloon Marine Let
Ma Tau Kok
A per plan
5. 4,000
163,350
GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SALE.
1. The Purchaser of the Lot shall sign forthwith the Agreement hereinafter contained for completing the purchase according to the General and Special Conditions hereinafter set out and shall, within seven days of the date on which possession shall be given, pay into the Colonial Treasury the full amount of the Premium stated above.
2. The person who signs the Contract of Sale as Purchaser shall be regarded as a principal unless at the time of signing the same he shall disclose the fact that he is acting as an agent only, in which case he shall at the same time disclose the name or rames of his principal or principals and insert the same in the Contract.
3. The Purchaser shall pay into the Colonial Treasury on behalf of His Majesty the King within seven days of the date on which possession shall be given. the sum of $25.00. ...for and in consideration of boundary stones, which shall be fixed by the Director of Public Works at each angle of the Lot properly cut and marked with the Registry Number of the Lot, and the Purchaser shall notify the Director of Public Works when he is ready to have the boundary stones fixed. If it is intended that the angles of the Lot
shall be covered by buildings, walls or other erections, such notifica- tion must be given at least fourteen days before the foundations are up to ground level to enable the boundary stones to be built into such buildings, walls or other erections as the work proceeds. If such notification be not duly given, the Director of Public Works shall be at liberty at any time to enter on the Lot and to cut into any buildings, walls or other erections thereon and to do any other act which may be necessary for the purpose of fixing the boundary stones. Any expense incurred in consequence of such cutting into buildings, walls or other erections, shall be borne by the Purchaser and the amount thereof shall be paid by him into the Colonial Treasury within seven days of receipt of a demand in writing from the Director of Public Works.
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4. The Purchaser shall apply to the Director of Public Works for the Lot to be set out on the ground and shall not commerce any operations for building thereon until the Lot
shall have been so set out by Director of Public Works. If the Purchaser shall erect any building otherwise than in due accord with the alignment of the Lot out as aforesaid he shall when called upon by the Director of Public Works so to do demolish such building and shall rebuild upon the correct alignment, If the Purchaser shall when required by the Director of Public Works so to do fail to demolish any such building as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works to cause such building to be demolished and the Purchaser shall on demand pay to the Director of Public Works the amount certified by him to be the cost of such demolition. A certificate pur- porting to be signed by the Director of Public Works as to the alignment of any building or as to the cost of demolition shall be final and conclusive evidence as between the parties hereto as to the facts certified therein.
5. The Purchaser shall execute and take up a Crown Lease for the Lot when called upon to do so by the Land Officer, for which purpose all estates or interesis what- soever in the Lot or any part thereof created since the date of this agreement by way of Mortgage, Charge or otherwise the outstanding shall thereupon forthwith be pre- viously reassigned or satisfied and an endorsement by the Land Officer on these Condi- tions that Plans of the Lot or any specified part thereof are in the Land Office and that the Crown Lease thereof must be taken up before any further dealings with the Lot or such specified part can be registered, shall be deemed to be a sufficient requisition to that effect, and shall pay to him, therefor, the prescribed fee.
6. The Purchaser of the Lot shall build and finish, fit for occupation, before the expiration of...... 48
... calendar months from the date on which possession shall be given to the Purchaser, in a good, substantial and workmanlike manner, one or more good and permanent buildings upon some part of the Lot with such materials as may be approved by the Director of Public Works, and in other respects in accordance with the provisions of all Ordinarces, Eye-laws and Regulations relating to Buildings or Sanitation as shall or may at any time be in force in the Colony and shail expend thereon a sum of not less than $100,000.00
in rateable improvements, Provided that notwithstanding any default by the Purchaser in complying with this condition, and notwithstanding the acceptance on behalf of the Crown of any Crown rent or rates or other payment whatever, the Director of Public Works may in his discretion, and whether the Purchaser consent or not, fix at any time and from time to time any extended period for the completion of the said buildings in substitution for the said pericd of..
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....months, and thereupon the obligation hereunder of the Purchaser in question to complete the said buildings shall be taken to refer to such substituted period, and the right of re-entry reserved in these conditions shall arise upon default of completion within such substituted period as if it had been the period originally provided.
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7. No sewage or refuse water will be allowed to flow from the Lot
on to any of the adjoining lands whether belonging to the Crown or to private persons, neither shall any decaying noisome, noxious, excrementitious, or other refuse matter be deposited on any portion of the Lot , and in carrying out any works of excavation on the Lot no excavated earth shall be deposited on the Lot or (with permission) on Crown Land adjoining, in such manner as shall expose the slopes of such excavated earth to be eroded and washed down by the rains, and all such slopes shall be properly turfed and, if necessary, secured in place by means of masonry toe walls. The Purchaser shall see that all refuse matters are properly removed daily from off the premises.
8. The Crown Kent of the Lot shall commence from the date on which possession shall be given and the Purchaser shall pay into the Colonial Treasury 2 proprtionate part of the annual rental specified in the particulars hereinbefore contained on the next half-yearly day on which Crown Rent is payable and thereafter shall pay such annual rental by equal half-yearly payments on the 24th day of June and the 25th day of December in each and every year during the term of 75 years hereinbefore mentioned.
9. The exact boundaries of the Lot shall be determined before the issue of the Crown Lease, In the event of any excess or deficiency in area being found to exist as compared with the area specified in the paritculars hereinbefore contained the amountPage 11