THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST MAY, 1884.
18. The rights, powers, and privileges granted by this Ordinance to the said FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his exccutors, administrators and assigns, shall continue in force for twenty years to be computed from the date of the Proclamation thereof. Provided always that the Governor in Conueil may, from time to time, so often as the Governor in Council shall think it expedient, by order, to be published in the Gazette, declare that the duration of such rights, powers, and privileges shall be extended for any further term or terms not exceeding ten years at a time, and there- upon such rights, powers, and privileges shall continue in force for such extended period.
19. Upon the cessation of the rights, powers, and privi- leges granted by this Ordinance, it shall be at the option of the Governor in Council to purchase the wharves and piers and works by this Ordinance authorised from the said FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his executors, administrators, or assigns for a price which shall be exclusive of any allowance for past or future profits of the undertaking, or any com- pensation for compulsory sale, to be determined in case of difference by two arbitrators to be nominated one by the Governor in Conncil, and the other by the said FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his executors, administrators, or assigns; and in case the said arbitrators cannot agree, by an umpire to be agreed upon between them. If the Governor in Council does not exercise the option to buy within one month of such cessation as aforesaid, the said FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his executors, administrators, and assigns shall, at their own expense, remove the said wharves and piers and works, and restore the site thereof to its former condition, and in the event of their failure to do so within one year of the date of such cessation, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to abate and remove the same, and restore the site thereof to its former condi- tion at the cost of the said FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his exccutors, administrators, or assigns, and the amout of such cost shall be a debt due to the Government, and reco- verable against the said FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his executors, administrators, or assigns accordingly.
20. Nothing in this Ordinance, otherwise than as spe- cially enacted herein, shall be construed to interfere in any way with any existing rights in the land on which the said wharves or piers are to be constructed, or the lands or foreshore adjoining the same, and the powers and privileges given by this Ordinance are so given, saving and reserving always the rights of Her Majesty, and of all bodies politie and corporate, and of all other persons and those elaiming by, from, and under them except as herein otherwise provided.
21. This Ordinance shall come into force on a day to be proclaimed by the Governor.
Duration of Ordinanco.
Cessation of Powers.
Saving of rights,
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