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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22nd JULY, 1899.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 421..

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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 8th day of August, 1899, at 3,30 p.m., are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd July, 1899.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Tuesday, the 8th day of August, 1899, at 3.30 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Two Lots of Crown Land, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor to Her Majesty the QUEEN for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.

LOCALITY.

No.

of Sale.

Registry No.

1

Rural Building Lot No. 98.

Mount Gough,

99.

""

"

Boundary Measurements.

Contents in

N.

S.

E.

W.

Square ft.

Annual Upset Rent. Price.

feet.

feet. feet. feet.

190 130 145 111 19,000 87

210 120 160 125 21,880

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

1,140

100 1,320

1. The highest bidder above the upset price shall be the Purchaser, and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the Lot in dispute 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 each 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 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 the Lot.

5. The Purchaser of each 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 each Lot shall build and finish, fit for occupation, before the expiration of eighteen calendar months from the day of sale, in a good, substantial and workmanlike manner, one good and permanent messuage or teneinent 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. 25 of 1891, and No. 7 of 1895, and shall expend thereon a sum of not less than $25,000 in rateable improvements.

7. No sewage or refuse water will be allowed to flow from the Lot on to any of the adjoining lands whether belonging to the Crown or to private persons; neither shall any decaying, noisome, noxious, excrementitious, or other refuse matter be deposited on any portion of the Lot, and in carrying out any works of excavation on the Lot no excavated earth shall be deposited on the Lot or on Crown land adjoining in such manner as shall expose the slopes of such excavated earth to be eroded and washed down by the rains, and all such slopes shall be properly turfed and, if necessary, secured in place by means of masonry toe walls. The Purchaser shall see that all refuse matters are properly removed daily from off the premises.

8. The Purchaser of each 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 and the 25th day of December in cach and every year during the term of 75 years herein before mentioned.