6924-1907-Land-Sale-Pokfulum — Page 1

1162 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 13, 1907.

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

No. 616.-Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 30th day of September, 1907, at 3 p.m, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of Two Lots of Crown Land at Pokfulum in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Locality.

Boundary Measurements.

Contents in Annual

Acres.

Upset

Rent. Price.

of

Farm Lot No. 70.

71.

Near Pokfulum

Police Station.

As per plan.

420

104

1,023

8:03

200

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 Lots shall be put up again at a former bidding.

2. No person shall at any bidding advance less than $50.

3. Immediately after the fall of the hammer, the Purchaser of the Lots shall sign the Memorandum of Agreement, 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 Lots shall have been purchased.

4. The Purchaser of the Lots shall within seven days of the date of a written notice from the Director of Public Works pay into the Colonial Treasury, on behalf of His Majesty the KING, the sum of $6.25 for each and every Boundary Stone, properly cut, fixed, and marked with the Registry Number, which shall be placed by the Director of Public Works, for the Purchaser, at each angle of each Lot.

5. The Purchaser of the Lots shall pay to the Land Officer, on behalf of His Majesty the KING, a Fee of $60 upon the execution of the Crown Leases thereof.

6. No sewage or refuse water will be allowed to flow from the Lots on to any of the adjoining lands whether belonging to the Crown or to private persons; neither shall any decaying, noisome, noxions, excrementitious, or other refuse matter be deposited on any portion of the Lots, and in carrying out any works of excavation on the Lots no excavated earth shall be deposited on the Lots or on Crown Land adjoining in such manner as shall expose the slopes of such excavated earth to be eroded and washed down by the rains, and all such slopes shall be properly turfed and, if necessary, secured in place -by means of masonry toe walls. The Purchaser shall see that all refuse matters are pro-

perly removed daily from off the premises.

7. The Purchaser of the Lots shall pay into the Colonial Treasury a proportionate part of the annual rental specified in the Particulars herein before contained on the 25th day of December next, and thereafter shall pay such annual rental by equal half-yearly payments on the 24th day of June and the 25th day of December in each and every year during the terin of 75 years hereinbefore mentioned."

8. When the conditions herein contained have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, the Purchaser of the Lots shall be entitled to and shall execute, on demand, Leases from the Crown, of the Pieces of Ground comprised in such Lots for 75 years, to be computed from the day of sale at such Annual Kentals payable half- yearly on the 25th day of December and the 24th day of June in every year as is specified in the Particulars of such Lots hereinbefore contained; and such Crown Leases shall be subject to, and contain, all Exceptions, Reservations, Covenants, Clauses and Conditions inserted in the Crown Leases of Farm Lots in the Colony of Hongkong.