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658 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVTM GAZETTE OF 23RD JUNE, 1888.

previously notified to the public in the Gazette the sole privilege of boiling and preparing Opium either inclusive or exclusive of dross opium, and of selling and retailing within the said Colony or the waters thereof opium so boiled or prepared, and that such privilege may from time to time be granted to the highest bidder to be ascertained either by public auction or by tender to be made in pursuance of notice to be published in the Gazette to that effect; AND WHEREAS notice was published in the Gazette of the

day of

188 that the said privilege therein described and known as the Prepared Opium Farm established under the Opium Ordinances 1884 and 1887 would be disposed of by public tender on the

for the term of three years from the 1st day of March, 1889; AND WHEREAS the conditions of the said privilege and the form of grant thereof were regulated and determined by the Governor in Council in pursuance of the said Ordinances and were notified to the public in the Hongkong Government Gazeite of the

day of

; AND WHEREAS

(whose name in Chinese characters is

purchase of the said privilege at the sum of $ instalments in advance.

$

AND WHEREAS the said

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day of

) of

was declared to be the accepte l tenderer for the per annum payable in equal monthly

in pursuance of the provisions in that behalf contained in the said Ordinances has entered into a Bond with suretics in the sum of as security for the due and regular payment of the said yearly sum of $ by equal monthly instalments of $

in advance on the first day of each month and for the due observance and performance of the other conditions and stipulations on which the said privilege is granted: AND WHEREAS the said has also deposited in the

as additional security the sum of $

in the name of the Colonial Treasurer or lodged in the Treasury title deeds of equi- valent value for the due observance and fulfilment of the conditions of the said privilege, KNOW YE THEREFORE that in consideration of the premises and of the payment by the said

payable in twelve monthly instalments of $

each on the

of the yearly sum of $ first day of each month, in advance during the term hereby granted, and in pursuance of the said Ordinances and such conditions as are regulated and determined or may be regulated and determined as provided by the said Ordinances, I the said Governor by and with the advice of the said Executive Council have given and granted and by these presents under the seal of the said Colony for myself and my successors in the Government of the same Do GIVE AND GRANT unto the said

executors, administrators and assigns the sole privilege of boiling and preparing Opium (inclusive of dross opium) and of selling and retailing within the said Colony, and the waters thereof, Opium so boiled or prepared, and also the privilege of keeping Divans, for and during the term hereinafter expressed, in conformity with and subject to the said Ordinances in that behalf provided, and to the said conditions and stipulations and to these presents, and so as that the said

his executors, administrators and assigns shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity and advantage, from time to time, during the said term coming, growing, accruing and arising by reason of the said privileges To HAVE hold use exercise and enjoy the premises hereby granted, with the power to grant licenses to sell and retail Opiurn boiled and prepared subject to such conditions as shall from time to time be by the Governor in Council regulated and notified as aforesaid, and all other powers incident to the said privileges, and all benefit and advantage of the said Ordinances ` and conditions, or any of them unto the said

for and during and unto the full end and term of three whole years commencing with the First day of March, 1889; PROVIDED ALWAYS and these presents are upon this express condition, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted the said

his ope

his executors, administrators or assigns shall not upon their part or behalf pay the said monthly instalments or any of them, or observe, perform, and keep any of the provisions of these presents, or of the said Ordinances, or the said conditions and stipulations or any of them, or shall of their own proper authority add to or alter the said provisions and con- ditions respectively, or any of the same respectively, or attempt to make any such addition or alteration in that behalf, or if these presents are now, or at any time during the said term shall become or be contrary to Law, then and in any or either of the said cases, these presents shall forthwith cease, determine and be utterly void, anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. IN WITNESS whereof, I, the said Governor have set my hand and the

day of Seal of the said Colony to these presents on the

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By Command,

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 25th June, 1888.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.