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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 27, 1906.

LAND REGISTRY OFFICE.

No. 364.-It is hereby notified that the General Conditions of Sale applicable to all sales of Crown Land for building in the New Territories (exclusive of New Kowloon), pub- lished in Government Notification No. 57 of the 19th January, 1906, are revoked.

G. H. WAKEMAN, Land Officer.

25th April, 1906,

LAND REGISTRY OFFICE.

No. 365. It is hereby notified that, until further notice and unless otherwise stated, the following General Conditions of Sale will be applicable to all sales of Crown land in the New Territories (exclusive of that portion described as "Southern District Mainland" in the Order in Council dated the 15th March, 1906, Government Notification No. 212 of 1906) in the same manner as if the said General Conditions were included in the published Particulars and Conditions of Sale in each case. Special Conditions of Sale will be separately

set forth :-

General Conditions of Sale.

1. The highest bidder above the upset price shall be the Purchaser, and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders for any Lot, such Lot shall be put up again at a former bidding.

2. No person shall at any bidding advance less than one dollar or such other sum as shall be named at the time of sale.

3. Immediately after the fall of the hammer, the Purchaser of each Lot shall sign a Memorandum of Agreement, in the form hereinafter contained, for completing the pur- chase according to these Conditions, and shall, within Three Days of the day of sale, pay to the Assistant Land Officer, for and on behalf of His Majesty the KING the full amount of Premium at which the Lot shall have been purchased.

4. The Purchaser of each Lot shall also have Boundary Stones of a size and pattern to be approved by the Assistant Land Officer, marked with the Registry Number, placed at each angle of the Lot within one month of the date of sale.

5. The Purchaser of each Lot shall where such Lot is sold as a Building Lot, build and finish, fit for occupation, before the expiration of twenty-four calendar months from the day of sale, in a good, substantial and workmanlike manner, one or more good and permanent messuage or tenement upon some part of his Lot, with walls of stone or brick and lime-mortar and roof of tiles or such other materials as may be approved by the Assistant Land Officer, and in all other respects to the satisfaction of the Assistant Land Officer and shall expend thereon in rateable improvements not less than the amount specified in the particulars of sale.

6. No sewage or refuse water will be allowed to flow from any Lot on to any of the adjoining lands whether belonging to the Crown or to private persous; neither shall any decaying, noisome, noxious, excrementitious, or other refuse matter be deposited on any portion of any Lot, and in carrying out any works of excavation on any Lot no excavated earth shall be deposited on such Lot or on Crown Land adjoining in such manuer as shall expose the slopes of such excavated earth to be eroded and washed down by the rains. The Purchaser of each Lot shall see that all refuse matters are properly removed daily from off the premises.

7. The Purchaser of each Lot shall pay to the Assistant Land Officer or such other Officer who may be appointed to receive the same a proportionate part of the annual rental specified in the Particulars of Sale of such Lot on the 30th day of June next after the date of sale, and thereafter shall pay such annual rental by equal yearly payments. on the 30th day of June in each and every year during the term of years for which

the Lot is sold.

8. When the conditions herein containe1 have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Assistant Land Officer the Purchaser of each Lot shall be entitled to and shall execute on demand a Lease from the Crown of the ground comprised in each Lot for the term of years for which the Lot has been sold, at the annual reat stated in the Particulars Such of Sale of the Lot payable yearly on the 30th day of June in each and every year. Crown Lease shall unless otherwise provided be in the form set out in Schedule A hereunder and there shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Lease unless otherwise expressly excepted or provided the terms, exceptions, reservations, covenants, conditions, provisoes and agreements contained in Schedule B hereun ler which sail terins, exceptions, reservations, covenants, conditions, provisoes and agreements shall be binding on the Lessee his executors, administrators and assigns in the same manner as if they had been incorporated and written in such Lease.