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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST DECEMBER, 1888. 1095

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 529.

The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the spot, on Tuesday, the 11th day of December, 1888, at 3 P.M., are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st December, 1888.

ARATHOON SETH, for the Colonial Secretary.

Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Tuesday, the 11th day of December, 188, at 3 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, of Two Lots of Crown Land, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.

No.

of Sale.

Registry No.

Boundary Measurements.

LOCALITY.

Contents in

Annual Rent.

Upset Price.

N.

S.

E.

W.

Square ft.

1

Rural Building Lot No. 69.

feet. feet. feet.

feet.

Maguziue Gap, (Mount Gough Road), 167

70.

""

Do.,

100 36.6

100 155 120

173 120 140

16,050 58

20,800 76

1,605

2,080

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 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 Leases 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 Lots. 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 Lots 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 herein before 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.

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