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DOROIT.

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette

EXTRAORDINARY.

報 特門 轅港 香

Published by Authority.

No. 61.

VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, 14TH NOVEMBER, 1894.

VOL. LX.

號一十六第 日七十月十年午甲

日四十月一十年四十九百八千一

簿十四第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 427.

The following is published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th November, 1894.

The Taipingshan Resumption Ordinance, 1894.

REGULATIONS

Made pursuant to section 10, sub-section 4 of "The Taipingshan Resumption Ordinance, 1894," for the conduct of proceedings

before the Board constituted under the said Ordinance.

1. The Secretary shall attend all the meetings of the Board and take notes of the proceedings thereat. He shall also attend the sittings of the Board, and keep a record of the proceedings and decisions of the Board.

2. All communications shall be addressed to the Secretary, Supreme Court House.

3. As provided by section 8 of the Ordinance, all claims for compensation shall be made as soon as possible, and in no case later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of the constitution of the Board.

4. Claims shall be forwarded, in duplicate, to the Secretary and shall contain the following particulars, verified by oath or declaration before a person competent to administer the same, namely:-

(a) Name, residence and description of claimant.

(b) Nature of his interest in the property resumed.

(c) His title thereto.

(d) Number of the Lot or section of the Lot with the name of the street in which the Lot

is situate and the number of the house or houses.

(e) Description of buildings and for what purposes used.

(f) Boundaries of each separate block if more than one be claimed for.

(9) Area of block.

(h) Annual Crown Rent.

(i) Rent of the property for three years prior to the 30th June last, as returned to the

Assessor under The Rating Ordinance, 1888.

(j) Period, if any, during which the property has been vacant during the said three years. (k) Amount of compensation claimed.

With respect to (c) it will be sufficient to give the date of the Crown Lease under which the land is held and the date of the claimant's immediate title, reserving to the Government the right of requiring such further particulars of the claimant's title as they may from time to time require.