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BOND REFERRED TO IN CONTRACT.

know all men by these presents that we

are held and firmly bound to Sir Henry Lambert, K.C.M.G., C.B., Hugh Cholmondeley Thornton, C.M.G., C.V.O., Percy Hubert Ezechiel, C.M.G., and Lieutenant-Colonel James Forrest Halkett Carmichael, C.M.G., C.B.E., all of 4 Millbank in the City of Westminster the Crown Agents for the Colonies (hereinafter referred to as

" the Crown Agents") in the penal sum of Five thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain such sum to be paid to the Crown Agents or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor their or his Attorneys or Attorney at 4 Millbank aforesaid. For which payment to be well and truly made we bind ourselves and each of us and any two or more of us and the successors heirs executors and administrators of us and each of us and of any two or more of us jointly and severally by these presents. SEALED with our seals. DATED the One thousand nine hundred and

twenty-five.

day of

Whereas by a Contract bearing even date with the above-written Bond and made between the Crown Agents acting for and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong of the one part and the above bounden

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(hereinafter called the Contractors") of the other part the Contractors have contracted and agreed that they the Contractors will in such manner with such materials within such period and to such satisfaction as in that behalf therein mentioned and in accordance with such Specification as is in the said Contract mentioned or referred to construct the water supply connecting pipe lines from Kowloon across Hong Kong Harbour to the City of Victoria

And whereas the original of such Contract duly executed by the Contractors is for better identification annexed to and bound up with these presents

And whereas before and as one of the terms upon which the said Contract was made it was expressly agreed between the parties thereto and the said

and the said

and

and

that the Contractors

as Sureties for the Contractors should enter into the above written bond conditioned as hereinafter mentioned.

Now the condition of the above-written Bond or Obligation is such that if the Contractors shall well and truly perform and observe all the agreements conditions and stipulations which under or by virtue of the said Contract or any award made under the provisions therein contained ought on their part to be performed or observed and shall from time to time and at all times hereafter at their own costs and charges save harmless and keep indemnified the said Government and the Crown Agents and each of them from all actions suits losses charges damages and expenses which the Government or the Crown Agents or any of them shall or may bear sustain or incur for or by reason of the non-observance or non-performance or breach of any of the said agreements conditions and stipulations in the said Contract contained or referred to and on the part of the Contractors to be performed and observed then the above-written Bond or Obligation shall be void or otherwise shall remain in full force and effect.

Provided always AND IT IS HEREBY DECLARED that all the rights and remedies of the said Government and the Crown Agents respectively under the above-written Bond are to be deemed cumulative and in addition to and not in substitution for their respective rights and remedies under the said Contract and that the rights of the said Government and the Crown Agents against the said and

or either of them and their or either of their heirs executors or administrators shall not be prejudiced or affected by any