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Appendix I.

THIS INDENTURE, made the Thirteenth day of September One thousand eight hundred and eighty-four 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, and MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Esquire, of the other part.

WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, inade 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, were 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 Politic, or Corporate, in trust for the public uses of Her said Majesty's Subjects there resident, or any of them; AND WHEREAS ander and by virtue of certain other Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, made and dated at Westminster, on the Ninth day of April, in the Fortieth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, Constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and of a Commission under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date the Ninth day of December in the Forty- sixth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, was 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 stipula- tions hereafter reserved and contained, by and on the part and behalf of the said MATTHEW JOHN DESMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, to be paid, done and performed; HER SAID MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA DOTH hereby grant and demise, unto the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, ALL that piece or parcel of Ground situate lying and being at Victoria in the said Colony of Hongkong, abutting on the North Side thereof on the Praya and measuring thereon one hundred feet, on the South side thereof on Battery Hill and measuring thereon one hundred and five feet, on the East side thereof partly on a close of land Registered in the Land Office as Marine Lot No. 185 and partly on another close of land Registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 38 and measuring thereon altogether three hundred and thirteen feet, and on the West side thereof on Witty Street and measuring thereon three hundred and forty feet, and six inches; which said piece or parcel of ground hereby expressed to be demised contains in the whole thirty-two thou- sand eight hundred and twenty square feet and is more particularly delineated on the plan hereunto annexed and thereon coloured red and is registered in the Land Office as Marine Lot No. 184 in the name of the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS together with the messuage or messages, tenement or tenements, erections and buildings now standing and being thereon, And all the casements and

appurtenances whatsoever to the said demised premises belonging, or in anywise appertaining. EXCEPT AND RESERVED unto Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, all Mines, Minerals and Quarries of Stone in, under and upou the said premises, and all such Earth, Soil, Marl, Clay, Chalk, Brick-carth, Gravel, Sand, Stone and Stones, and other Earths or Materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise, shall be under or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns may require for the Roads, Public Buildings, or other Public Purposes of the said Colony of Hongkong; with full liberty of Ingress, Egress and Regress, to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs. Successors and Assigns, and Her and their Agents, servants and workmen, at reasonable times in the year during the continu- ance of this demise, with or without horses, carts, carriages and all other necessary things into, upon, from and out of all or any part or parts of the premises herein- before expressed to be demised, to view, dig for, convert and carry away, the said excepted Minerals, Stone, Earths and other things respectively, or any part or parts thereof respectively, thereby doing as little damage as possible to the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHEss, his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns; AND ALSO SAVE AND EXCEPT full power to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns to make and conduct in, through and under the said premises, all and any public or common sewers, drains. or watercourses. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said piece or parcel of ground and premises hereby expressed to be demised, with their and every of their appurtenances unto the said MATTHEW JOHN DESMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, from the twenty-fifth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one for and during and unto the full end and term of Nine hundred and Ninety-nine Years from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended: YIELDING AND PAYING therefor yearly and every year the sum of Two hundred and forty-nine dollars in Current Money of the said Colony of Hongkong, by equal balf-yearly payments, on the Twenty-fourth day of June and the Twenty-fifth day of December, in every Year, free and clear of and from all Taxes, Rates, Charges, Assessments and Deductions whatsoever, charged upon or in respect of the said premises or any part thereof; the first half-yearly payment of the said Rent becoming due and to be made on the twenty-fifth day of December Que thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, AND the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, for himself, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns doth hereby covenant with Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns by these presents, in manner following, that is to say, that he the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Heirs, Execntors, Administrators, or Assigns shall and will yearly, and every year, during the said term hereby granted, well and truly pay or cause to be paid to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, the said yearly Rent of Two hundred and forty-nine dollars clear of all deductions as aforesaid on the several days and times and in the manner hereinbefore reserved and made payable; AND ALSO that he the said Marruew JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns shall and will during all the said term hereby granted, bear, pay and discharge all taxes, rates, charges and assessments whatsoever, which now are or shall be hereafter assessed or charged upon, or in respect of the said premises hereby expressed to be demised or any part thereof. AND ALSO that the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, shall and will, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, when, where, and as often as need or occasion shall be and require, at his and their own proper costs and charges, well