resident, or any of them; AND WHEREAS, by certain other Letters Patent under the great Seal as aforesaid, bearing date the Eleventh day of January in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, Sir JOHN BOWRING, Knight, L.L.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects Trading in China, was constituted and appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies; AND WHEREAS by certain Instructions of Her said Majesty, addressed to the then Governor of Hongkong, under Her said Majesty's Signet and Sign Manual, and dated the Sixth day of April 1843, the said Governor was, amongst other things, instructed to grant Leases of the Land in the said Colony belonging to Her said Majesty; NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that in consideration of the yearly rents, conditions, and agreements, hereinafter reserved and contained, by and on the part and behalf of the said D. LUIGI AMBROSI, his executors, adminis- trators, and assigns, to be paid, done, and performed, and also of the sum of Five Current Dollars, which are at this time a legal tender in the said Colony of Hong- kong, in hand paid to the said Sir JOHN BOWRING as Governor of the said Colony for the use of Her said Majesty by the said D. LUIGI AMBROSI, at or before the Sealing and Delivery of these Presents, the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged; HIER SAID MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, Hath demised, leased, and to
farm let, and by these presents Doth demise, lease and to farm let unto the said D. LUIGI AMBROSI, his executors, administrators, and assigns. ALL that piece or parcel of ground, situate, lying, and being at Victoria in the said Island of Hong- kong, abutting on the North side thereof on ground now in the possession of Government and measuring thereon Six hundred feet. On the South side thereof on the Protestant Burial Ground and measuring thereon Six hundred feet, on the East side thereof on a Public Road and measuring thereon Three hundred and twenty-five feet, and on the West side thereof on ground now in the possession of Government and measuring thereon Three hundred and twenty-five feet, which said piece or parcel of ground contains in the whole One hundred and ninety-five thousand square feet and is registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot Number Two hundred and ninety-nine in the name of the said D. LUIGI AMBROSI, on behalf of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Christian Catholic Faith in China (for the purposes of a Burial Ground)* together with all easements, profits, commodities, and appurtenances whatsoever, to the said demised premises belong- ing, or in any wise appertaining. EXCEPT AND ALWAYS reserved unto Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns full power to resume and take possession of all or any part of the said piece or parcel of Ground hereby demised, if required for the improvement of the said Colony of Hongkong or for any other public purpose whatsoever, three Calendar Months' notice being given to the occupant thereof of its being so required, and a full and fair compensation for the said land and the buildings thereon, being paid to the said D. LUIGI AMBROSI, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, at a valuation to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, and
* These words in Italics arc written in pencil in the original counterpart.
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