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Enclosure 1.
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AGP 24 JUL 09
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Supreme Court House,
Hongkong, March 11th.,1909.
I have the honour to address you with
reference to my Crown Lease of Rural Building Lot No. 1.
This Lot, the first of the Rural Building
Lots, was originally purchased by me in 1878 when there were
practically no substantial buildings erected in the Hill Dis-
-trict and when there were no permanent residents living at the
Peak and upon the 4th. May, 1888, a new Lease was granted as the
Government wished to resume a piece of ground along the South
side for the purpose of making a public road.
The property is held for a term of 75 years
from the 30th. September, 1878, and a large amount has been
expended in building upon and improving the property and there are now standing upon the Lot the following six houses viz:- Mount
Gough, The Ridge, Brockhurst, Burrington, Bleton and Kirkendoa.
The present owners of the Lot are:-
Section A. Henry Edward Pollock.
Section B. Subsection 1. F. B. L. Bowley.
Section B. Subsection 2. The Eastern Extension
Australasia and China Tele-
-graph Company, Limited.
Section B. Remaining Portion. Alfred Bryer.
Section C. Murray Stewart.
The Remaining Portion, myself, Henry Lardner Dennys.
In the year 1898 a new form of Lease was granted to then pur-
-chasers of land in the Colony and in this new Lease there was
a provision that at the expiration of the first 75 years a
further Lease should be granted upon the same terms and under
and subject to the same reservations, covenants, provisoes and
declarations as in the original Lease at such rent as should be
impartially fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King his Heirs,
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