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I, SIR ALEXANDER WILLIAM GEORGE HERDER GRANTHAM, Knight
Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong
and its Dependencies, hereby grant to the Hongkong Model Housing
Society the lessees of the land at Kings Road North Point Hongkong
comprised in an Agreement for Lease dated the
1951 known as Conditions of Grant No.
day of
pursuant to the terms of
flats or other
Special Conditions 1(a) and (c) of the said Agreement full licence
and consent to mortgage the said land and all buildings erected or
which may be erected thereon to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation (hereinafter called 'the Bank') to secure all monies
advanced or which may be advanced to the Society by the Bank for the
purposes of the development of the said land and the erection and
maintenance thereon by the Society of blocks of
dwellings as are or may be authorised by the terms of the said Agree-
ment or any licence granted thereunder in accordance with the objects
for which the grantee company has been incorporated as specified in
its Memorandum and Articles of Association to the intent that such
mortgage shall notwithstanding any thing to the contrary contained
in the provisions of the said Agreement give to the Bank and the
Society is hereby expressly empowered to confer on the Bank as
mortgagee the full Common Law and Statutory powers of a mortgagee as
usually conferred in a mortgage of land free from restrictions
including the right of entering into possession, sale, purchase and
all other (if any) the rights remedies and powers usually vested in
and exerciseable by a mortgagee on default in payment of the princi-
pal monies and interest due and so that the Bank upon the putting
into force of such powers shall and may deal with the land and every
part thereof free from the restrictions imposed by the terms of
Special Condition 1 of the said Agreement provided nevertheless and
it is hereby expressly agreed and declared that the Bank shall he
accountable to the Government of Hongkong for all surplus money
arising in or upon the exercise or execution by the Bank as mortgagee
of any or all of such rights remedies and powers after repayment to
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