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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH SEPTEMBER, 1894.

Duties of the Foard.

No houses to be pulled down pending survey, &c.

Claims for compensation.

(vi) The constitution of the Board shall be published

in the Gazette in English and Chinese.

(vii) The Board when constituted may appoint a clerk or secretary at such remuneration as the Gov- ernor may think fit.

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(viii) If any member of the Board shall from any cause be or become unable to act, his place shall be supplied by some other person appointed or elected by the person or persons having the original right to appoint or elect and in the

same manner,

6. (1) The Board shall within seven days from the publication of its constitution in the Gazette, be convened by the Chairman and shall commence its sittings at such time and place as the Chairman may direct.

(2) The Board shall, at its first sitting, appoint such persons as they may think fit to survey and examine the houses standing on the lots of land resumed under this Ordinance and to report on the age, character, structural and sanitary condition and state of repair of each house, and whether it is unfit for human habitation, and if so to what extent, and at what expense it can be made fit for human habitation, and the Board shall be at liberty to take any other evidence or to conduct any further enquiry if it shall think fit into the state and condition of any such houses or house.

(3) The Board shall, after the close of the survey and examination in the last sub-section mentioned or of such further enquiry (if any), forthwith prepare and publish a list of the lots, portions, sections and sub-sections of the lots resumed under this Ordinance and of the names of the registered owners thereof and of the houses standing upon the said lots, portions, sections and sub-sections and of the names of the registered owners and householders thereof, and such list shall specify in detail against each house the various particulars in the last sub-section men- tioned so far as the same have been or are capable of being ascertained and such list signed by the Chairman of the Board shall, for the purposes of any claim for compensation made under this Ordinance, be primâ facie evidence of the facts therein stated and set forth.

(4) Such list shall be forwarded to the Governor and shall be forthwith published in the Gazette, in one English and in one Chinese newspaper in Hongkong as the Board shall direct and for such period or periods as the Board may think fit.

(5) Until the publication of the said list in the Gazette the Chairman of the Board may, upon the application of any owner mentioned in the first schedule hereto, authorise in writing such owner his agents and servants to enter and inspect any of the houses or lands resumed under this Ordinance from such owner.

7. Until the completion of the survey and examination or of the further enquiry, if any, mentioned in section 6 of this Ordinance, and until the publication of the said list in the Gazette no houses upon the lands resumed under this Ordinance, shall be altered, pulled down or destroyed.

Upon the publication of the said list in the Gazette the houses and lands resumed may be dealt with in such manner as the Governor may direct.

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8. (1) Every person interested in or claiming an interest in any land resumed under this Ordinance shall, as soon as possible and not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of the constitution of the Board send in a written claim to the clerk or secretary of the Board stating the precise nature of his interest in the land resumed, his title thereto and the amount of compensation which he seeks to recover, and every such claim shall be separately considered and adjudicated upon unless the parties to two or more claims shall otherwise agree and shall send to the clerk or secretary to the Board a written consent in that behalf or unless the Board shall be of opinion that any two or more claims cannot be separately considered and adjudicated upon.

(2) On the receipt of any such claims, a copy thereof shall be forthwith forwarded by the clerk or secretary of the Board to the Colonial Secretary.