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ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1883 . 1713


Tramways.


to prepare a deed of conveyance, assignment, or assurance of such lands

to themselves, containing a description of the lands in respect of which
such default shall be made, and reciting the purchase or taking thereof
company, and the names of the parties from whom the same were
by the company

purchased or taken , and the payment made in respect thereof, and
declaring the fact of such default having been made, and to tender such
deed after the same shall have been stamped with the stamp duty which
would have been payable upon an assignment to the company of the
lands described therein , to the Registrar for execution on behalf of the
owner and other ( if any ) the conveying, assigning, or assuring parties ,
and thereupon the Registrar shall, upon an order of the Court to be

obtained upon petition in a summary way, execute the same, and all the
estate and interest in such lands of, or capable of being sold and assigned
by the party between whom and the company such agreement shall have
been come to, or as between whom and the company such purchase
money or compensation shall have been determined as herein provided ,
and shall have been paid as aforesaid , shall vest absolutely in the com
pany, and as against such parties, and all parties on behalf of whom they
are hereinbefore enabled to sell and assign, the company shall be entitled
to immediate possession of such lands .
92. If the owner of any of the said lands mentioned in the said Where parties
refuse to
schedule D. , and purchased or taken by the company, or of any interest assign or do
not show title.
therein, on tender of the purchase- money or compensation which shall or cannot be
found , the
have been determined in manner aforesaid to be payable in respect thereof, purchase
money to be
refuse to accept the same, or neglect or fail to make out a title to such paid into
Court.
lands, or to the interest therein claimed by him, to the satisfaction of
the company, or if he refuse to assign or release such lands as directed

by the company, or if any such owner be absent from the said Colony
of Hongkong, or cannot after diligent inquiry be found , or fail to appear
on the inquiry herein provided for , it shall be lawful for the company to
pay the purchase-money or compensation payable in respect of such
lands, or any interest therein , into Court subject to the control and
disposition of the Court.

93. Upon any such payment into Court as last aforesaid being made , Upon pay
ment into
it shall be lawful for the company, if they think fit, to prepare a deed of Court being
made, the
-conveyance, assignment, or assurance of the last mentioned lands to them lands to vest
upon a deed
selves, containing a description of the lands in respect whereof such pay being ex
ecuted.
ment shall have been made, and declaring the circumstances under which