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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 5, 1907.
shall have power to resume, enter in and re-take possession of all or any part of the premises hereby expressed to be demised, if required for the improvement of the said Colony of Hongkong or for any other purpose whatsoever Three Calendar months' notice being given to the Lessee or posted on the demised premises of its being so required and a full and fair compensation for the area resuined being paid to the Lessee at a valuation to be fairly and impartially made by a surveyor of His said Majesty his heirs successors or assigns, and upon the exercise of such power the term and estate hereby created shall respectively cease, determine and be void.
IN WITNESS whereof the said
duly authorised by His said Majesty as aforesaid has executed these presents and has hereunto set the Public Seal of the Colony of Hongkong aforesaid in the name of and on behalf of His said Majesty..
No. 222.
Rules made by the Governor-in-Council, under Section 3 of the New Territories (Regulation) Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance No. 8 of 1899), this 2nd
day of April, 1907.
FORESTRY LICENCES.
1. The Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Department, on the recommendation of an Assistant Land Officer may issue and re-issue Private or Village Forestry Licences to private persons or to villages to cultivate pine trees on unoccupied Crown Land in the New Territories. Cultivation of pine trees shall incan resowing whenever trees are felled and sowing trees on land where none have previously been grown.
2. Upon receipt of an application for a Forestry Licence the area applied for shall be marked out and notice shall be posted in an approved form and mammer at least 14 days before the licence is issued stating that application for the arca defined by marks has been made.
3. After licences have been issued the Licensees shall mark out the land in respect of which they are granted licences clearly at each corner with a board or stone bearing the licence number and shall maintain such marks during the term of their licences.
4. Such licences shall not confer upon the Licensees ownership of the ground nor of its natural products.
5. The Licensees shall not desecrate any existing grave on the land in respect of which they hold licences nor interfere with future burials, and they shall leave a clear space of grass one Cheung in width round every grave on their lots.
6. The holder of a Private Licence shall not interfere with the cutting of grass on the land in respect of which he holds a licence. The holders of a Village Licence are at liberty to cut grass on the land in respect of which they hold a licence but the grass on a Village Forestry lot shall not be cut by people of other villages without the permission of the Licensees of that lot.
7. Licensees shall not interfere with persons in pursuit of their lawful avocations passing over the land in respect of which they hold licences.
8. For each licence a fee at the rate of 10 cents per acre per annum shall be charged. The fee shall be paid in advance and the minimum fee will be $1.
At the end of the first year the licences may be renewed at the reduced rate of 2 cents per acre per annum if it is found on inspection that the plantation is in good order, with the trees on each acre of about the same size and with their branches nearly touching, the lower living branches not removed and the ground not denuded. Such plantations shall be called "4 Plantations". If the plantation is not in a satisfactory condition the renewal will be at the original rate. Such plantations shall be called "B Plantations".
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