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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JUNE, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 287.

523

The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the spot, on Monday, the 1st day of July, 1889, at 5 P.M., are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd June, 1889.

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 1st day of July, 1889, at 5 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Governor of One Lot of Crown Land, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years.

No.

[

of Sale.

Registry No.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Boundary Measurements.

LOCALITY.

Contents in

N.

S.

E.

W.

Square ft.

Annual Upset

Rent.

Price.

Rural Building Lot No. 72.

Mt. Kellett Road below Government}

feet. feet. feet. feet.

429 400 128 141

52,480

192

5,250

Pavilion,

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 $10.

3. Immediately after the fall of the hammer, the Purchaser shall sign the Memorandum of Agree- ment, 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 $10 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 Surveyor General, for the Purchaser at each angle of the Lot.

5. The Purchaser of the Lot shall also 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 twelve calendar months from the day of sale, in a good, substantial and workmanlike manner, one or more good and permanent messages or tenements upon some part of his Lot, and shall expend thereon a sum of not less than $4,000 (Four thousand Dollars). No houses other than buildings of the character and design usually tenanted by Europeans and having the necessary European out-offices and appurtenances, will be allowed to be built on the Lot. The Purchaser of the Lot shall also construct all the necessary pipe drains to carry off the waste and refuse water from the main building or main buildings, cook-houses, and out-offices, and conduct the said waste and refuse water into the nearest Government sewer, or if there be no Government sewer in the vicinity to such places as may be indicated by the Surveyor General; such drains to be constructed of material and in a manner approved of by the Sanitary Board. 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 such place by means of masonry toc-walls. The Purchaser shall see that all refuse matters are properly removed daily from off the premises.

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, and the 25th day of December in every Year.

8. When the conditions herein contained have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General 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 Rural Building Lots in the Colony of Hongkong.