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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1883.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 319.

785

Separate tenders will be received at this Office until noon of Monday, the 1st October next :--

1. For the construction of a granite main sewer at Third Street, Yau-ma Ti, and for the

reclamation of the large tidal swamp situated to the South of that village.

2. For the construction of Eleven public dust-bins of brick and granite in the following places-Jardine's Bazaar, Lung-on Street, Ship Street, Wing Fung Street, Canton Bazaar, Pound Lane, Possession Point, Robinson Road, Chuk Lin Street, Bonham Road, and Eastern Street.

For form of tender, specification, and further particulars, apply at the Surveyor General's Office. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest, or any tender.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1883.

J. H. STEWART-Lockhart,

for the Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 320.

The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the spot, on Monday, the 8th day of October, 1883, at 3 P.M., are published for general information. By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1883.

J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART, for the Colonial Secretary.

` Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 8th day of October, 1883, at 3 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, of One Lot of Crown Land, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 999 Years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No.

of Sale.

Registry No.

Boundary Measurements.

LOCALITY

Contents in

N.

S.

E.

feet.

w. Square ft.

feet. feet. feet.

Annual Upset

Rent.

Price.

$

1

Inland Lot No. 897

North Point, Shau-ki Wan Road,

600

600 650 650

390,000 895

5,000

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 $100.

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, a deposit of one half the amount of Premium at which the Lot shall have been purchased, and within One Calendar Month from the date of sale pay into the Treasury aforesaid the remaining half of the said premium.

4. The Purchaser of the 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 and permanent messuage, or tenement upon some part of his Lot, and expend thereon a sum of not less than $1,000 (One thousand Dollars).

5. When the conditions herein contained have been complied with, the Purchaser of the Lot shall be entitled to, and shall execute, on demand, a Lease from the Crown of the Piece, or Parcel 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 hereinbefore 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 Lot in the Colony of Hongkong.