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POLICE AND LIGHTING RATES ORDINANCE.

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Schedule to be part of Ordinance. of Ordinance.

XX. The Schedule to this Ordinance annexed shall be deemed and taken to be a part thereof, and the Forms therein contained or any other Forms to the like effect may be used in the respective cases to which they are applicable. XXI. The Word “Tenement” in this Ordinance shall be construed Interpretation Clause.

Tenement. to include any House, Cottage, Shed, Apartment, Ground or Building, or House together with Land annexed thereto and ordinarily occupied therewith as Garden or Pleasure-ground, all Outbuildings, Stables, Warehouses, Yards and Offices belonging or contiguous to any House and occupied therewith by one and the same Person or his Servants as one entire concern or undivided tenancy or holding, or not so belonging contiguous or occupied; the Word "Owner" shall be construed to mean any Person | receiving or claiming the Rent of any such Tenement for his own use, or receiving or claiming the same for the use of any Corporation aggregate or of any Public Company or of any Landlord or Lessor who shall be a minor, under coverture or insane, or for the use of any Person who shall not be usually resident within this Colony; and the Word "Person" shall be construed to include any Corporation or Public | Person. Company as well as any Individual unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.

XXII. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the First day of July next.

XXIII. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863."

Owner.

Commencement of Ordinance.

Short Title.

SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS,

FORM I.

For Assessment of the year 186

To Owner or Occupier [as the case may be,]

of

In pursuance of the "Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863," we require you to furnish us with the particulars relating to this tenement in the manner specified in the document hereunto annexed, and return the same to us at within one week from the date hereof.

Dated this

day of

186

•

Valuators under “ The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863.”

For Assessment of the year 186

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IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG

RETURN OF HOUSES, BUILDINGS AND LANDS, at

No. of the Tene-

ment.

No. and

Name of Street, Road or Place.

OF WHICH THE UNDERSIGNED IS OWNEK.

Description of Tenement:

1. Whether Dwell- Whether occupied Description of ing House with Out- or vacant.

Land Lot whether Marine or

Inland.

If the houses, Garden, &c., former, name and occupied therewith, calling of the Occu-

or

pier, whether Owner

2. Warehouse or or Lessee. other building, &c.,

separately occupied.

Actual amount of Rent

per annum in Dollars

for each Tenement.

If Let or Leased. The period of the tenure, when enter-

led upon, and whe- ther the Premises fare kept in repair by the Owner, or the Lessee at his own

cost.

Remarks.

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