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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH JUNE, 1899.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 331.
The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held at the Offices of the Public Works Department, on Monday, the 26th day of June, 1899, at 3.30 p.m., are published for general information.
By Command,
J. G. T. BUCKLE, for the Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th June, 1899.
Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 26th day of June, 1899, at 3.30 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Fourteen Lots of Crown Land at Tai Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
Sale Registry
No.
No.
LOCALITY.
Boundary Measurements. Contents
in
Annual Upset Rent. Price.
N.
S.
E.
w.
Square ft.
100′.0" 100'.0" 312′.0" 312′.0" | 31,200
Kowloon Inland
Lot No. 887 Tai Kok Tsui,
"
888
889
""
*
890
32
891
22
$92
>>
893
37
"
894
"
"
895
52
25
896
897
3
Kowloon Marine
Lot No. 44
39
45
+1
5.
46
多多
23
feet. feet. feet. feet.
100.0" 102′.0' 352′.0′′ 334.0"| 34,300 100′.0" 102′.0" |380′.0′′ |362′.0′′ | 37,100 40.9" 40'.0"|336′.0′′ |330′.0"| 13,320 102.0" 100′.0" 364′.0" 346'.0"
35,500
102.0" 100.0′′ 392′.0′ 374′.0"
38,300
40.0 40.0 312′.0" 312′0′′
12,480
100′.0" 100′.0" 312′.0" 312′.0"| 31,200 || 2,917
40′.0" 40.0" 280′.0′′ [280′.0"| 11,200 100′.0" 100′.0′′ 280′.0′′ 280′.0"| 28,000 100.0" 100.0′′ 280′.0′′ [280′.0"| 28,000
40.0 40.0" 260′.0′′ |260′.0′′" | 10,400 100'.0" 100.0" 260′.0" 260′.0"| 26,000 100.0" 100′.0" 260′.0′′ |260′.0"| 26,000
CONDITIONS OF SALE.
21,780
1. The highest bidder above the upset price shall be the Purchaser, and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the Lots shall be put up again at a former bidding.
2. No person shall at any bidding advance less than $20.
3. Immediately after the fall of the hammer, the Purchaser shall sign the Memorandum of Agreement, hereinafter contained, for completing the purchase according to these Conditions, and shall, within Three Days of the day of sale, pay into the Colonial Treasury the full amount of Premium at which the Lots shall have been purchased.
4. The Purchaser shall also pay to the Land Officer, on behalf of Her Majesty the QUEEN, the sum of $210 within three days of the day of sale, for and in consideration of the Boundary Stones, properly cut, fixed, and marked with the Registry Number, which shall be placed by the Director of Public Works, for the Purchaser, at each angle of each Lot.
5. The Purchaser of the Lots shall pay to the Land Officer, on behalf of Her Majesty the QUEEN, a Fee of $15 upon the execution of the Crown Lease thereof.
6. The Purchaser of the Lots shall build and finish, fit for occupation, before the expiration of four years from the day of sale, in a good, substantial and workmanlike manner, one good and permanent messuage or tenement upon some part of the Lots, with walls of stone or brick and lime- mortar and roof of tiles or such other materials as may be approved by the Director of Public Works, and in other respects in accordance with the conditions of the Building (Amendment) Ordinances, No. 25 of 1891 and No. 7 of 1895, and shall expend thereon a sum of not less than $50,000 in rateable improvements.
7. The Purchaser of the Lots shall pay into the Treasury a proportionate part of the annual rental specified in the particulars hereinbefore contained on the 25th day of December next, and there- after shall pay such annual rental by equal half-yearly payments on the 24th day of June and the 25th day of December in each and every year during the term of 75 years hereinbefore mentioned.
8. When the conditions herein containel have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, the Purchaser of the Lots shall be entitled to, and shall execute, on demand, a Lease from the Crown of the Piece of Ground comprised in such Lot for 75 Years, to be computed from the day of sale, at such Annual Rental, payable half-yearly on the 25th day of December and the
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