THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 4, 1934.
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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 and all manner of needful and necessary reparations, cleansing and amendments whatsoever, the whole to be done to the satisfaction of the District Officer. And the said messuage or tenement, erections, buildings and premises, being so well and sufficiently repaired, sustained and amended, at the end or sooner determination of the term granted shall and will peaceably and quietly deliver up to His said Majesty. And also that the Lessee shall and will during the term granted as often as need shall require bear pay and allow a reasonable share and proportion for and towards the costs and charges of making, building, repairing and amending all or any roads, pavements, channels, fences and party walls, draughts private or public sewers and drains requisite for or in or belong- ing to the said premises. And further it shall be lawful for His said Majesty, by the District Officer, or other person deputed to act for Him twice or oftener in every year during the term granted, at all reasonable times in the day, to enter upon the said pre- mises to view the condition of the same, and of all decays, defects and wants of repara- tion and amendments, which upon every such view shall be found, to give or leave notice, in writing, at or upon the said premises unto or for the Lessee to repair and amend the same within Three Calendar Months then next following, within which time the Lessee will repair and amend the same accordingly And further that the Lessee or any other person or persons shall not, nor will, during the continuance of the Grant use, exercise or follow, in or upon the said premises, any noisy, noisome or offensive trade or business whatever, nor convert any ground expressed to be granted as agricul- tural or garden ground into use for building purposes other than for the proper occupa- tion of the same ground as agricultural or garden ground without the previous Licence of His said Majesty, signified in writing by the Governor of the said Colony, or other person duly authorized in that behalf: And further that the Lessee or any other person or persons shall not nor will at any time during the said term erect or construct any building or structure of any description on the said premises whether demised as agricultural or garden ground or otherwise without first having obtained the approval thereto of the District Officer, or other person duly authorized by the Governor of the said Colony in that behalf: And also that the Lessee shall not assign, demise, mortgage, or otherwise part with, the said premises or any interest therein for all or any part of the terin expressed to be granted without forthwith registering such alienation in the Land Office, or such other Office as may hereafter be instituted for the purposes of Land Registration in the said Colony, and paying the prescribed fees therefor.
7. Provided always, and it is hereby agreed and declared,-
(1) That in case the yearly rent reserved, or any part thereof, shall be in arrear and unpaid by the space of twenty one days next after any of the days whereon the same ought to be paid as aforesaid (whether lawfully demanded or not) or in case of the breach or nonperformance of any or either of the covenants and conditions herein or in the said Grant contained, and by or on the part of the Lessee to be kept done and performed then, and in either of the said cases, it shall be lawful for His said Majesty, by the Governor of the said Colony or other person duly authorized in that behalf, in and upon the said premises to re-enter, and the same to have again, re-possess, and enjoy as in His former estate as if no Grant of the said premises had been made, and the Lessee and all other occupiers of the said premises thereout to expel, the said Grant or anything contained herein to the contrary not- withstanding.
(2) That His said Majesty shall have full power to resume, enter into, and re-take possession of the said premises if required for the improvement of the said Colony or for any other public purpose whatsoever, Three Calendar Months' Notice being given to the Lessee of its being so required, and full and fair compensation for the same being paid to the said Lessee at a valuation, to be fairly and impartially made by the District Officer or other person appointed by His said Majesty and upon the exercise of such power the said term and estate shall respectively cease.
(3) That the Lessee shall where the premises are granted for a term of Seventy- five years commencing on the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight be entitled on the expiration of the said term to a renewed lease of the said premises for the further term of Twenty-four Years less
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