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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH MAY, 1887.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 201.

527

The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the spot, on Monday, the 6th day of June, 1887, at 4 P.M., at Peak Road near the Albany, and at 5 P.M., at Richmond Road, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th May, 1887.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 6th day of June, 1887, at 4 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, of Three Lots of Crown Land, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 999 Years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.

No.

Boundary Measurements.

of

Registry No.

LOCALITY.

Safe.

N.

S.

E.

Contents In w. Square ft.

Annual Upset Rent. Price.

Inland Lot

No. 963

feet.

feet.

931 982

""

Peak Road near the Albany, Richmond Road, Do.,

feet. feet.

410

75 200 500

94,375 434 8,500 127 232 144 237 35,000 156 280 230 200 200 48,750 224

3,260

2,925

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 in dispute 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 each Lot shall also pay to the Land Officer, on behalf of Her Majesty the QUEEN, the sun 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 each 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 each 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 good substantial and safe brick or stone messuage or tenement as a private detached or semi-detached Villa residence only, upon some part of his Lot, to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General, and shall expend thereon a sum of not less than $4,000 (Four thousand dollars). The Purchaser shall also construct all the necessary drains to carry off the waste and refuse water from the main buildings, cook-houses, and out-offices to the entire satisfaction of the Surveyor General; no sewage or refuse water will be allowed to flow on, to, or through 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.

7. The Purchaser of each Lot shall pay into the Treasury a proportionate part of the annual rental specified in the particulars hereinbefore contained on the 24th day of June next, and thereafter shall pay such annual rental by equal half yearly payments on the 25th day of December and the 24th day of June in every Year.

8. When the conditions herein contained have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General the Purchaser of each 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 999 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 Inland Lots in the Colony of Hongkong.