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Probate of
E, SIR CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, of Victoria in the Colony The Will
and Codicils
Paul Chater,
of Hongkong Knight, C.M.G., a member of the Executive Council of that Colony of Sir declare this to be a First Codicil to my Will which bears date the Seventeenth Catchick day of April One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five (hereinafter referred deceased. to as "my said Will”).
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1. WHEREAS by Clause Four of my said Will I have (inter alia) bequeathed to my Wife the sum of Five thousand Pounds Sterling as therein set out AND WHEREAS I am now desirous of increasing the said sum from Five thousand Pounds Sterling to Ten thousand Pounds Sterling NOW THERE- 10 FORE I bequeath to my Wife the sum of Ten thousand Pounds Sterling (free of all death duties) to be paid to her as soon as possible after my death and in priority to all other legacies by my said Will bequeathed.
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2. I BEQUEATH to Dr. John Cecil McGown who has been attending me during my pesent illness the sum of Five thousand Pounds Sterling to be paid to him free of all death duties.
3. I DIRECT my Trustees to pay double the fees that would in the or- dinary course be paid to the nurses and doctors who have attended me during this present illness it being left to my Trustees' entire discretion to decide what fees shall be paid.
4. WHEREAS by Clause Twenty-two of my said Will I have declared that my Wife shall be entitled to live rent free in my residence at Victoria aforesaid known as "Marble Hall" if she desires to do so and in such event the said residence and the furniture fixtures and household effects in about or be- longing to the same other than my collection of china referred to in Clause Twenty-five of my said Will shall not be disposed of by Trustees until my Wife shall cease to live in such residence NOW I HEREBY DECLARE that upon my Wife ceasing to reside at "Marble Hall" aforesaid or dying THEN AND IN THAT EVENT I GIVE DEVISE AND BEQUEATH the said "Marble Hall" and the furniture fixtures and household effects (but not including the 30 china and curios referred to in Clause Twenty-four of my said Will) together with all my racing cups and the whole of my collection of porcelain and pottery in the said "Marble Hall" (but not including the China and Curios referred to in Clause Twenty-four of my said Will) to the Government of Hongkong absolutely.
5. WHEREAS by the Memorandum of Association of the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company Limited a Company registered according to the Laws of Hongkong IT IS PROVIDED that on my death the senior representative in the Colony of Hongkong for the time being of any firm or cor- poration (so long as such firm or corporation carry on business and have an office 40 in the said Colony) nominated and appointed by writing under my hand and during my life or by my Will or Codicil shall together with the senior repre- sentative therein referred to of Messieurs Jardine Matheson & Co., Limited be Permanent and Managing Director of the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company Limited NOW THEREFORE I HEREBY NOMINATE
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