CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12] — Page 293

Kowloon Jarm§*1

This Indenture, f two parts, made the eighth

Day of Furgnet.

in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and LADY VICTORIA, by the GRACE of GOD of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of Ladin, of the one part, and

Tang Ting Sham.

sixty five

291

between OUR SOVEREIGN

of the other part

WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, made and dated at Westminster, the Fifth day of April in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies were erected into a Colony, and full power and authority to the Governor of the said Colony of Hongkong, for the time being, ware given and granted in the Name of Her said Majesty, and on Her behalf (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 Her said Majesty,) to make and execute, in the Name and on the behalf of Her said Majesty, under the Public Seal of the said Colony, grants of Land, to Her said Majesty belonging, within the said Colony, to private persons for their own use and benefit, or to any Persons, Bodies, Politie or Corporate, in trust, for the public uses of ler suid Majesty's Subjects there resident, or any of them,, AND WHEREAS by a Commission under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date the warts second day of hime. in the Twenty third. Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, ir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight

--------is constituted and appointed

-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong and shop des Aihe wanapas by sprain Ingruation of her said Majors llopskorpuler, les aid Matte alguns aiz pe may dated to my of App). 1913, he said Governor was, amer.gst

whencas on depof the som Colony belonging to ller said "Majesty NOW THIS INDENTURE"

casoned reflets de flesta Corans retter served, by and on the pet and behalf of the said other things, instrupted to gran cases of

Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, to be paid, done, and performed, HER SAID MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA hath demised, leased, and to farm let, Sang Ting Stram his

Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, subject to the Conditions, Reservations, and Provisors and by these presents Dois demise, lease, and to farm let, unto the said Jang Ting from hig

Colony of Hongkong, hereinafter mentioned; All that piece or parcel of Ground lying and situate in se Dong Number Sight District of Kowloon in the - and registered in the Land Office of the said Rectomy

or parcel of ground contains ty as Kowloon Form Lot Number One which said piece admeasurement in the whole lix cores and two-roods and is particularly delineated in the Plan thereof lying at the said Land Office

with all the Rights and Appurtenances whatsoever thereto belonging; TO HAVE AND

his TO HOLD the said piece or parcel of Ground and Promises hereby demised, or intended so to be, with their and every of their Appartenances, unto the said Tang Ting tham

Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, from the Zusterity fifta

Years thence next ensuing, and fully to be day of firme AD. 1865

for, and during, and unto the full end and term of 999 complete and ended, with full and perfect liberty during the said terin to turn out Cattle, Sheep, or other Stack upon the waste or uncultivated Hills adjoining the said piece or parea of Ground hereby demised, or intended so to be; yielding and paying therefor Yearly and

"Cent

in Current Money of the said Colony of Hongkong, by Half-yearly Payments, on the Twenty-fourth day of June every Year the Sum of Twenty nime dollars and Awenty five and the Twenty-fifth day of December, in each Year, free and clear of and froei all Tuxes, Bates, Charges, Impositions and Assessments whatsoever, imposed or to be imposed upan or in respect of the said hereby demised Premises or any part thereof, during the term hereby granted, the first flalf-yearly Payment of the said Yearly Rent or Sum to be made on the twenty fifsiv. Eng of fecam ber, 365. And Her said Majesty doth hereby reserve unta fler said Majesty, fler Heire, Successors, and Assigns, full Power to resume and take possession of all or any part of the said Ground hereby demised, if required for any public Way or Ways, or for the Improvemens of the Colony, or for any public purpose whatever, Three Calendar Months' notice being given to the Occupant Executors, Administratore, or Assigns, at a thereof of its being so required, and a full and thir Compensation for the said Land, and the Improvements therenu, being paid to the said Yang King them his.

Executors, Administrators, Valuation to be fairly and impartially made by Two Arbitrators, the one to be apposted on behalf of Her Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, the other by the said dang ting them his or Assigns, from the then existing List of Special Jurors in the said Colony, with Power to the said Arbitrators, in the event of their disagreeing as to the Value aforesaid, to nominate and call in a Third Person, as sud for an Umpire: Provided always, that the Name of said. Third Person, shall also at the time of his Appointment, le standing on the said List of Special Juvors for the said Colony, AND ALSO Her said Majesty doth further reserve in manner storesaid, all Stone and Gravel, and all other Materials upon or under the said Land, which may be required, at any time or times bereafter, for the Construction of any Public Buildings, Ways, or Bridges, or for any other public purpose or purposes, together with the Right of taking and removing the same; AND ALSO, all Mines and Minerals, with

Sham his full and free liberty and power to search for, dip, and take away the same, a full and fair Compensation for all such Dainage that the said Land and improvements therem may sustain, being paid to the said Jang Jong

Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, at a Vaination to be fairly and impartially male by the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, in which said Valintion, the benefit to accrue to the said Tang Ting Sham his.

Executors, Administrators, or Assigns for any such Public Purpose shall be allowed by way of set off against any Damage he or they may sustain in consequence of such resumption or otherwise; and in the event of the said Tang Ting tham hep

Excentors, Administrators, or Assigns disputing the fairness of the said Valuation, Arbitrators and Umpire shall be appointe:l in the manner hereinbefore mentioned and provided: AND ALSO, ali Timber, Trees, Woods, and Underwoode, now standing, growing, or being, or which at any time during the terra hereby granted shall stand, grow, or be in or upon the said demised Fremises, or any part thereof, with liberty to and for Her said Majesty, Der Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, to sell, cut down, take, and carry away the same; AND ALSO, the right of full and free ingress, Egress, and Regress, into, mut of and upon the said Land for the suid purposes aforesaid. And the said Fang Ying Cham

for himself his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, doth hereby covenant, promise, and agree to sad with Her said Majesty, Hur Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, by these presents in thatner following, that is to say, that the said Tang Ting Sham his

Jeirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns shall and will Yearly and every Year during the said Term of 999.

Years hereby granted, truly pay or cause to be paid to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Stecessors and Assigns the Yearly Rent above reserved, clear of all Taxes and Deductions as aforesaid, ou the several days and tinea, and in the manner hereinbefore reserved and made payable; and that the said Tang Ting Sham his

Fleirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigas shall and will, during all the said tero hereby granted, bear, pay, and discharge all Taxes, Charges, and Topositions whatsoever, now or to be hereafter assessed, charged or imposed on the said Premises hereby denised, or ang part thereof; And that the said comg hny sham his.

Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns witi krug the said Premises hereby denised well and sufficiently drained, and prevent any accumulation of Water thereon. shall keep in clear, good, and sufficient repair, all Ditches, Drains, and Water-courses thereon, and shall and will leave tito sarue well and sufficiently repaired at the end of the said rem: AND ALSO that Ae-

-the said Jang Ting

Sham his

Executors, Administrators, er Assigns, will cultivate or use the same in a husband-like manger, and surrender the saine up in good order and condition at the expiration of the suid term of GGG.

Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns doth further covenant and agree, that

will not erect any Buildings or Dwelling-houses on the same except what may be required for the dae Cultivation or Occupation of the sand Praises us Farm; AND ABG 4 --

Epputors, Administrators, and Assigns, will not erect any Buildings or Sheds within Thirty Feet of any Public Road or Way. And will keep and maintain all reads and weby new existing within Teins, Executore Administrators, or signs, doth hereby promise and agree that will prevent my Stock, that the way turn out for pastorage as afresaid on the waste or uncultivated. Hills adjoining the said Premises, from iljaring any Timber on the said Ills; and that e will, on one Calendar Month's notice being by the Governor of ilongkong for the time being, or any Agent duly authorized by -Acán... in that behalf, of the said Etills, or any part thereof being required for any purpose whatever, cease to turn out ou pasture, Cattle, Sheep, Horses, or other Stock upon the said Hills or any part thereof, so required as aforesaid. Provided always, and these presents are upon this express condition, that if the ssd Yearly Rent of eventy nine Billaw and twenty five Cont. arrear and unpaid by the space of "Twenty-one Days next over or after any or either of the said days whereon the some sught to be paid as aforesaid, or in case of breach or non-performance of any be either of the other Covenants, Causes, Conditions, Agreements, or Provisious herein contained, by and on the part and behalf of the said Tang Ting Sham his

--- Executora, Administrators, arvi Assigne to be kept, done, and performed, --then, and in either of the said cases, from thenceforth, and at all time thereafter, it shall and may be lawful to and for Her said Majesty, Der Heirs, Successors, or Assigns by the Governor of Hongkong, or other person duly authorized in that behalf, into and upon the said hereby demised premises, or any part thereof, in the nurag of the whole, to re-enter, and the sure to lure again, retain, repossess, and enjoy, as in Ifer or their first or former Estate, as if these Presents had not been made; and the said Jang Jong them his

Excentors, Administrators, and Assigns, and all other Occupiers of the said Premises thercout and thence utterly to expel, put out, and amove, this Indenture, or any thing contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding. IN WITNESS whereof the soil William Thomas Alereer

_duly authorized by Her said Majesty as aforesaid, hath executed these Presents, and hereunto set the Public Seal of the Colony of Hongkong aforesaid, in the Name and on the behalf of Her said Majesty, the day and year first above written.

he

Ae-

Years; And the said Jang Ting Sham his

shall be in

Examined and Certified to be Correct,

(ligned}

Registered.

W Wilson.

(signed) Fras For Chagas

As fate Surveyor-General.

(Request)

J. J. Mereer.

Public Seal

of The Colony

Frue

Tue copine Shophone.

Deputy Land Office

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