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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH MARCH, 1882.

Extract from the London Gazette of Tuesday, November 8th, 1881.

Foreign Office, November 7th, 1881.

The following Charter bas been granted to the British North Borneo Company upon a Petition to Her Majesty in Council :-

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen,

Defender of the Faith.

To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting.

WHEREAS an Humble Petition has been presented to Us in Our Council by Alfred Dent, of 11, Old Broad-street, in the city of London, Merchant; the British North Borneo Provisional Association Limited; Sir Rutherford Alcock, of 14, Great Queen-street, in the city of Westminster, Knight Commander of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath; Richard Biddulph Martin, of 68, Lombard-street, in the city of London, Banker, a Member of the Commons House of Parliament; Richard Charles Mayne, Companion of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a Rear-Admiral in Our Navy; and William Henry Macleod Read, of 25, Durham-terrace, in the county of Middlesex, Merchant.

And whereas the said Petition states (among other things) to the effect that on the 29th day of December, 1877, the Sultan of Brunei, in the Island of Borneo, made and issued to the Petitioner Alfred Dent and another, or one of them, three several grants of territories, lands, and islands therein mentioned, and a commission.

And whereas the said Petition further states that by the first of the grants aforesaid the Sultan of Brunei granted to the grantees co-jointly their heirs associates successors or assigns all the territory and land belonging to the Sultan on the West Coast of Borneo comprising Gaya Bay from Gaya Head to Loutut Point including Sapangar Bay and Gaya Bay and Sapangar Island and Gaya Island and all the other islands within the limits of the harbour and within three marine leagues of the coast, likewise the province and territory of Pappar adjoining the province of Benoni and belonging to the Sultan as his private property; and in consideration of that grant the grantees promised to pay severally and and by per annum ; co-jointly to the Sultan his heirs or successors the sum of four thousand dollars that grant the said territories were from the date thereof declared vested in the grantees their heirs associates successors or assigns for so long as they shall choose and desire to hold them; provided however that the Sultan should have the right to resume the control and government of the said territories if the above-mentioned annual compensation should not have been paid for three successive

years.

And whereas the said Petition further states that by the second of the grants aforesaid the Sultan of Brunei granted to the grantees co-jointly their heirs associates successors or assigns all the territories belonging to the Sultan from the Sulaman River on the north-west coast of Borneo unto the River Paitan on the north-east coast of the island containing twenty-one states together with the island of Banguey and all the other islands within three marine leagues of the coast for their own exclusive uses and purposes; and in consideration of that grant the grantees promised to pay severally and co-jointly to the Sultan his heirs or successors the sum of six thousand dollars per annum; and by that grant the said territories were from the date thereof declared vested in the grantees their heirs associates successors or assigns for so long as they should choose to hold them; provided however that the Sultan should have the right to resume the control and government of the said territories if the above-mentioned annual compensation should not have been paid for three successive years.

And whereas the said Petition further states that by the third of the grants aforesaid the Sultan of Brunei granted to the grantees their heirs associates successors or assigns all the following territories belonging to the kingdom of Brunei and comprising the States of Paitan, Sugut, Bangaya, Labuk, Sandakan, Kina Batangan, Mumiang, and all the territories as far as the Sibuco River with all the islands within three leagues of the coast belonging thereto for their own exclusive and absolute uses and purposes; and in consideration of that grant the grantees promised to pay co-jointly and severally as compensation the sum of two thousand dollars per annum; and from that date the said territories were thereby declared vested in the grantees their heirs associates successors and assigns for so long as they should choose or desire to hold them; provided however that the Sultan should have the right to resume the control and government of the said territories if the above-mentioned annual compensation should not have been paid for three successive years.

And whereas the said Petition further states that by the commission aforesaid, after reciting to the effect that the Sultan of Brunei had seen fit to grant to his trusty and well-beloved friends the grantees certain portions of the dominions owned by him comprising the entire northern portion of the Island of Borneo from the Sulaman River on the west-coast of Maludu Bay and to the River Paitan and thence the entire eastern coast as far as the Sibuco River comprising the States of Paitan, Sugut, Bangaya Labuk, Sandakan, Kina Batangan, and Mumiang, and other lands as far as Sibuco River furthermore the provinces of Kimanis and Benoni, the province of Pappar, and the territory of Gaya