CO129-553-13 Appropriation of land for Chinese permanent cemetery 1-3-1935 - 1-3-1935 — Page 7

No. 60.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

The following is published for general information.

25th January, 1933.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Colonial Secretary.

Rules for the Chinese Permanent Cemetery at Aberdeen.

WHEREAS by two Deeds of Appropriation dated respectively the 16th day of June 1913 and the 22nd day of August 1929 certain pieces or parcels of ground situate at Aberdeen in the Colony of Hong Kong and registered in the Land Office as ABERDEEN INLAND LOT No. 78 were set apart for the purpose of a PERMANENT CEMETERY FOR CHINESE permanently resident in the said Colony;

AND WHEREAS the said Cemetery was placed under the control of the Board of Management subject to the conditions and obligations contained in the said deeds and subject also to such rules as should be made by the Board with the written approval of His Excellency the Governor and published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette;

AND WHEREAS the said Cemetery at Aberdeen has already been laid out in accordance with the provisions of the said deeds and the costs incidental thereto have been duly paid in the manner provided in the said deeds;

AND WHEREAS certain rules and regulations relating to the Cemetery at Aberdeen were made by the Board of Management on the 16th day of June 1913 and after being approved in writing by His Excellency the Governor were published in the said Gazette on the 25th day of July 1913;

AND WHEREAS the Board of Management desire to revise the said rules and regula- tions and to make new rules which shall apply not only to the said Cemetery at Aberdeen but also to any other Cemetery which may be placed under their control;

NOW IT IS HEREBY DECLARED by the Board of Management with the approval of His Excellency the Governor that the said Rules and regulations made in the year 1913 as aforesaid and any other rules which may at any time have been made by the said Board are herby rescinded and the following rules are substituted therefor

RULE I.

The Cemetery shall be named as

"The Aberdeen Chinese Permanent

Cemetery".

RULE II.

"The Board of Management" is the Board appointed under the Deeds of Appropriation to control the Aberdeen permanent Cemetery.

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