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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 27, 1906.

SCHEDULE B.

(TERMS, EXCEPTIONS, RESERVATIONS, COVENANTS, CONDITIONS, PROVISOES AND AGREEMENTS INCORPORATED IN CROWN Lease.)

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1. Whenever the word "Grant shall be hereafter used the same shall be deemed to include any Grant Demise Lease Agreement for Lease Tenancy or Letting. And whenever the words "the said premises" shall be hereafter used the same shall be deemed to refer to the ground and premises granted.

2. There shall except where otherwise stated be included in every Grant of ground all messuages, erections and buildings thereon, and all the easements and appurtenances what- soever to the said premises belonging, or in anywise appertaining thereto.

3. There shall be excepted and reserved unto His said Majesty, His Heirs, Successors and Assigns all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries of Stone in, under and upon the said premises, and all such Earth, Soil, Marl, Clay, Chalk, Brick-earth, Gravel, Sand, Stone and Stones, and other Earths or Materials, which at any time shall be under or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as His said Majesty, His Heirs, Successors or Assigns may require for the Roads, Public Buildings, or other Public Purposes of the said Colony of Hongkong; with full liberty of Ingress, Egress, and Regress, to and for His said Majesty, His Heirs, Successors and Assigns, and His and their Agents, Servants, and Workinen at reasonable times in the day with or without horses, carts, carriages, and all other necessary things, into, upon, from and out of all or any part or parts of the said premises to view, dig for, convert and carry away, the said excepted Minerals, Stone, Earths and other things respectively, or any part or parts thereof respectively, thereby doing as little damage as possible to the Lessee; There shall be also excepted full power to His said Majesty, His Heirs, Successors and Assigns, to make and conduct in, over, along, through or under the said premises, all and any Public or Common sewers, drains, or water-courses, water or other mains, telegraph and telephone lines with full power at all times to enter into and upon the said premises for the purpose of making, laying, erecting, inspecting or repairing the same or otherwise in connection therewith.

4. Every grant shall be subject to all existing Public or Private rights and easements in, over, along through or under the said premises or any part or parts thereof respectively or in any wise appertaining thereto.

5. The Rent reserved shall be paid in Current Money of the said Colony of Hongkong, on the thirtieth day of June in every year free and clear from all Taxes, Rates, Charges, Assessments and Deductions whatsoever, charged upon or in respect of the said premises or any part thereof, payment of the said Rent for the first year or a proportion thereof as the case may be becoming due on the thirtieth day of June next after the date of the Grant of the premises in respect of which rent is reserved; provided that in the event of any building being erected on any premises expressed to be granted as agricultural or garden ground the rent payable in respect of such premises shall be such sum as shall be specified in the licence for the erection of such building to be granted in manner hereinafter appearing.

6. Each Lessee for himself and herself and for his and her executors, administrators, inanagers, successors and assigns covenants with His said Majesty, His Heirs, Successors and Assigns in manner following, that is to say, that the Lessee shall and will yearly, and every year, during the term granted, well and truly pay or cause to be paid to His said Majesty, His Heirs, Successors and Assigns, the yearly Rent stated in the Grant or such other rent or rents as shall become payable under the proviso hereinbefore contained clear of all deductions as aforesaid on the several days and times and in the manner hereinbefore reserved and made payable: and also that the Lessee shall and will at all times during the term of the Grant, bear, pay and discharge all taxes, rates, charges and assessments whatso- ever, which are or shall be assessed or charged upon, or in respect of, the said premises or any part thereof: And will (except where otherwise provided) pay the said taxes, rates,