THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1882.
respect thereof shall have taken place; and such costs and expenses shall, in case the same shall be disputed, be settled by the Registrar.
127. All proceedings taken in, and applications made to, the Court in respect of any compensation or other monies payable under this Ordinance, shall be taken and made, where such compensation or other monies do not exceed one thousand dollars, in the Court in its Summary Jurisdic- tion, and, where such compensation or other monies do exceed one thousand dollars, such proceedings and applica- tions shall be taken and made in the Court in its Original Jurisdiction before the said Chief Justice,
128. If any such proceedings or applications shall he taken or made in the Court in its Summary Jurisdiction, or in the Court in its Original Jurisdiction before the said Chief Justice, and if it shall happen that such proceedings or applications respectively though taken or made in the Court in its Summary Jurisdiction or (as the case may be) in its Original Jurisdiction before the said Chief Justice, ought, judging from the amount of compensation or money adjudged or decreed to be paid, to have been taken or made in the Court in its Original Jurisdiction before the said Chief Justice or (as the case may be) in its Summary Ju- risdiction, then, and notwithstanding such fact, such pro- ceedings or applications shall be deemed to have been duly taken or made and as if the same had been taken or made in the Court in such Jurisdiction as is by this Ordinance provided. Provided always that in any such proceedings or applications as aforesaid there shall be a right of appeal from the decision of any Judge in Summary Jurisdiction in manner provided by the said Ordinance No. 14 of 1873, and that the determination of the said Chief Justice shall be final and conclusive, and that there shall be no appeal therefrom by either party.
Sale of superfluous lands.
129. Within ten years after the expiration of the time limited by this Ordinance for the completion of the works, the Company shall absolutely sell and dispose of all superfluous lands, and in default thereof all such super- fluous lands remaining unsold at the expiration of such period shall thereupon vest in and become the property of the owners of the lands adjoining thereto, in proportion to the extend of their lands respectively adjoining the same.
Service of documents.
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130. Any summons or any whit or other proceeding at law or in equity required to be served upon the Com- pany may be served by the same being left at, or trans- mitted through the post directed to, the principal office of the Company, or being given or transmitted through the post directed to the Secretary, or, in case there be no Secre- tary, the Solicitor of the Company.
131. With respect to notices, and to the deliveryl thereof by or to the Company, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:-
1. Every notice shall be in writing or print, or partly
in writing and partly in print.
2. Any notice to be delivered by or to the Company to or by any other Company or person may be delivered by being left at the office of such other Company, or person, or at the then present, or then last known, place of abode, or residence, of such person, or of his ostensible Agent, or Agents, or of other the Agent or Agents who pay the rents, rates, and taxes payable in respect of the property of such person, or by being affixed upon some conspicuous part of any lands affected, or intended to be affected, by such notice, or by being left at the office of the Company, as the case may be, or by being sent by post in a regis- tered letter addressed (as the case may be) to the Clerk or Secretary of such other Company at their principal office, or to such person at his then present, or then last known, place of abode, or residence, or at his office or business premises, or by being so sent by post addressed to the ostensi- ble Agent or Agents of such person, or other the Agent or Agents aforesaid, or to the Clerk or Secretary of the Company at their principal office.
General clause as to proceed- ings.
Proceedings made in Court
of wrong Jurisdiction.
Lands not wanted to be sold, or in default to vost in owners of adjoining lands.
Service of summons, &c.
Form and delivery of notices.
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