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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH JUNE, 1899,

C.

To

Correspondence addressed to you and short paid to the amount of

is

lying at the General Post Office and will be delivered to you or your representative on payment of the above sum.

GENERAL POST OFFICE,

189

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 339.

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 Tuesday, the 4th day of July, 1899, at 3 p.in., are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th June, 1899.

J. G. T. BUCKLE, for the Colonial Secretary.

Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Tuesday, the 4th day of July, 1899, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of Crown Land at Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No.

of Sale.

Registry

No.

Boundary Measurements.

LOCALITY.

Contents in

N.

S.

E.

W.

Square ft.

Annual Upset Rent. Price.

feet.

feet.

feet. feet.

Kowloon

Inland Lot 898.

Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, (back of

Wharf and Godown Co.'s premises), 70

70

450 450

31,500 368

18,900

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, the Lot 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 Lot shall have been purchased.

4. The Purchaser of the Lot shall also pay to the Land Officer, on behalf of Her Majesty the QUEEN, the sum of $15 within three days of the day of sale, for an 1 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 the Lot.

5. The Purchaser of the Lot 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 Lot shall 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 Director of Public Works, and in other respects in accordance with the conditions of the Building Ordinances, No. 15 of 1889, No. 25 of 1891, and No. 7 of 1895, and shall expend thereon a sum of not less than $20,000 in rateable improvements.

7. The Purchaser of the Lot shall pay into the Treasury a proportionate part of the annual rental specified in the particulars herein before contained on the 25th day of December next, and thereafter shall pay such annual rental by equal half-yearly payments on the 24th day of June an 1 the 25th day of December in each and every year during the term of 75 years hereinbefore mentioned.

8. When the conditions herein contained have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, the Purchaser of the Lot 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 24th day of June and the 25th day of December in every Year, as is specified in the Particulars of such Lot herein before contained; and such Crown Lease shall be subject to, and contain, all Exceptions, Reservations, Covenants, Clauses, and Conditions inserted in the Crown Leases of Inland Lots in the Colony of Hongkong.