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LAND OFFICE.

No. S. 141.-It is hereby notified that the Letting of the following Granite Quarries at Lung Ku Tan by Public Auction will be held at the District Land Office, Tai Po, at 11 a.m., on Monday, the 18th day of May, 1914.

The Quarries are let for the term of one year from the 1st day of June, 1914, subject to the Special Conditions hereunder specified.

PARTICULARS OF THE QUARRIES.

Quarry No. Locality.

Boundary Measurements.

Estimated Area in Acres.

Upset Annual Crown Rent.

Lung Ku Tan

As per plan deposited in the District Land Office of the Northern District of the New Territories, Tai Po.

70

$600

2

Do.

Do.

C

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

1. The areas to be leased are shown approximately on plans deposited in the Public Works Department and the Land Office but the exact boundaries will be defined before the issue of the Crown Lease.

2. The highest bidder shall immediately after the sale deposit in the Colonial Treasury a sum equivalent to three months' rent of such Lots as security for the rent and the fulfilment of these conditions. He shall then be entitled to and shall execute, on demand, a Lease from the Crown of the pieces of ground comprised in such Lots for one year from the 1st day of June, 1914, at the rental at which the same was purchased, payable monthly in advance on the 1st day of each month: such Lease being in the printed form deposited in the Land Office.

3. The Government will permit if practicable the Lessee to erect and maintain such temporary piers or jetties, as may, in the opinion of the Director of Public Works, be rea- sonably necessary for the purpose of shipping stone cut in the leased quarries into junks or boats; the sites and dimensions of such temporary piers or jetties shall be subject in all respects to the approval of the Director of Public Works, who may at any time direct the removal of any such temporary pier or jetty to any other place; the expense of such re- moval to be borne by the Lessee.

4. Should the Lessee fail to comply with these conditions the sum deposited by him shall be forfeited to the Government, and he shall be liable to make good any loss or damage which the Government may incur through his failure to comply with such conditions.

5. The successful bidder shall be liable to repay to the present Lessee the value of stone quarried by the said Lessee during the current month, such value to be assessed by the Land Officer.

No. S. 142. It is hereby notified that the following Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction will be held at Cheung Chau Police Station, at 12 Noon, on Monday, the 18th day of May, 1914.

The Lot is sold for the term of Seventy-five years from the 1st day of July, 1898, with the right of renewal for a further term of 24 years less 3 days at a re-assessed Crown Rent as a Building Lot subject to the General Conditions of Sale published in Government Notification No. 365 of 1906, and to the Special Condition No. 4 published in Government Notification No. 697 of 1909 and No. 5 in Government Notification No. 278 of 1911 and also to the Special Conditions hereunder specified.

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