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Mineral and Quarries of Stone in under and upon the said premises and all such Karl Clay Chalk Brick earth Gravel Sand

stones and other earths or laterials 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 hajesty 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 continuance 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 hereinbefore demi sed

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 Lessees their executors

administrators or assigns And save and except also full power to make and conduct in through and under the said hereby

demi sed premises all and any public or common sewers drains or water courses To Have and To Hold the said piece or

parcel of ground and premises hereby demised or intended so to be with their and every of their appurtenance unto the

said Lessees their executors administrators and assigns from the twenty eighth 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 completed and ended Yielding and paying therefore yearly and every year the sum of one dollar

in Current money of the said Colony of Hongkong by Half 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 impositions and assessments

whatsoever imposed or to be imposed upon or in respect of the said hereby demised premises or any part thereof during

the term hereby granted the first half yearly payment of the said yearly rent or sum of one dollar to be made on the

twenty fifth day of December One thousand eight hundred and seventy six And in order that the covenants hereinafter

on the lessees part may attach to and run with the said Land and the Tenancy thereof and be obligatory on the Lessees

their executors administrators and assigns so long only as they shall be in the actual possession of the premises but

not further or otherwise the said Lessees do jointly and severally for themselves their heirs executors administrators

and assigns herety/covenant promise and agree to and with her said Lajesty her heirs successors and assigns by these

presents in manner following that is to say that they the said Lessees their executors administrators or assigns shall

nine and will yearly and every year during the said term of nine hundred and ninety years hereby granted well and truly

pay or cause to be paid to Her said Lajesty her heirs successors and assigns the said yearly sum of one dollar clear

of all taxes and deductions as aforesaid in the several days and times and in the manner hereinbefore reserved and made

payable And also that they the said Lessees their executors administrators and assigns shall and will during all the

said term hereby granted bear pay and discharge all taxes charges and impositions whatsoever as are or shall

be hereafter assessed or charge on or in any wise imposed upon or in respect of the said premises hereby demised or

intended so to be or any part thereof And also that the said Lessees their executors administrators and assigns shall

and will from time to time and at all times during the remainder of the said term hereby granted when where and as often as need or occasion shall be or require at his and their own proper costs and charges well and sufficiently repair

uphold support maintain pave purge scour cleanse empty amend and keep the said messuages or tenements erections and

buildings and all the walls rails lights pavements privies sinks drains and water courses thereunto belonging and

which shall in any wise belong or appertain unto the same in by and with all manner of needful and necessary reparations

cleansings and amendments whatsoever the whole to be done to the satisfaction of the Surveyor of her said Majesty her

heirs successors or assigns And the said messuage or tenement messuages or tenements erections buildings and premises

so being well and sufficiently repaired sustained and amended at the end or sooner determination of the said term

shall and will peaceably and quitely deliver upto Her said Lajesty her heirs successors or assigns And also that it shall be lawful for Her said Majesty her heirs successors or assigns or her and their Agent or any person or persons deputed by him or them to enter into and upon the premises hereby demised at any reasonable hours in the day time within the last seven years of the aforesaid term of nine hundred and ninety nine years to take a schedule or inventory