THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH OCTOBER, 1888.
CONDITIONS OF SALE.
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4. 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 Purchasers 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 Lots shall have been purchased.
4. The Purchasers of the Lots 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 Purchasers at each angle of the Lots.
5.- The Purchasers of the Lots 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 Purchasers of the Lots 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 messuages 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 cha- racter 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 Purchasers of the Lots 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 decay- ing, 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 toe-walls. The Purchasers shall see that all refuse matters are properly removed daily from off the premises.
7. The Purchasers of the Lots shall pay into the Treasury a proportionate part of the annual rental specified in the particulars hereinbefore contained on the 25th day of December next, and there- after 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 Sur- veyor
General the Purchasers of the Lots 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.
9. Should the Purchaser neglect, or fail to comply with these Conditions, his Premium or any portion thereof which may be paid, shall be thereupon forfeited to Her Majesty, who shall be at full liberty either to enforce the Sale, or to re-sell the Property at such time and place, and in such manner as to Her Majesty shall seem fit, and in case of a re-sale the increase, if any, of the Premium or Purchase Money shall be retained by Her Majesty, and the deficiency, if any, and all Costs and Ex- penses shall be made good by the defaulter and be recoverable as liquidated damages.
10. Possession of the Lots shall be given to the Purchasers and deemed to have been taken by them on the day of sale.
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BY THE PURCHASERS. Memorandum that the persons whose names are hereunder written have been declared the highest bidders for the Lots described in the foregoing Particulars of Sale and hereunder specified opposite to their said names and signatures respectively, and do hereby agree with Her Majesty The QUEEN to become the Lessees thereof under and subject to the foregoing Conditions of Sale, and on their parts to perform and abide by the said Conditions.
Number of Sale.
Registry Number and Description of Lot Purchased.
Amount of Annual Rental. Premium at which
Purchased.
Signatures of Purchasers.
Rural Building Lot No. 39.
$200
Do.
do. 66.
$216
Do.
do.
67.
$ 56
Do..
do.
68.
$ 84
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