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in which said valuation, the benefit to accrue to the said D. LUIGI AMBROSI, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns from any such improvement, or public purpose shall be allowed by way of set off against any damage, he, or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid; EXCEPT AND RESERVED ALSO all mines, minerals, and quarries of stone in, under and upon the said premises, and all such marl, clay, chalk, brick, earth, gravel, sand, stone, and stones, and other earths, or materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise, shall be under, or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns may require for the roads public buildings, or other public purposes of the said Colony of Hongkong, with full liberty of ingress, egress, and regress, to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns and Her, and their agents, servants, and workmen at reasonable times in the year, during the continuance of this demise, with or without horses, carts, carriages, and all other necessary things, into, upon, from, and out of all or any part or parts of the premises herein before demised, to view, quarry, dig for, convert, and carry away, the said excepted minerals, stone, earths, and other things respectively, or any part or parts thereof respectively, thereby doing as little damage as possible to the said D. LUIGI AMBROSI, his executors, administrators, or assigns; AND SAVE AND EXCEPT also full power to make and conduct in, through, and under the said hereby demised premises, all and any public or

common sewers drains or watercourses.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said piece or parcel of ground and premises, hereby demised, or intended so to be, with their, and every of their appurtenances, unto the said D. LUIGI AMBROSI, his executors, administrators, and assigns, from the Eighth day of January A.D. 1848, for and during and unto the full end and term of Nine hundred and ninety-nine years from thence next ensuing, and fully to be complete, and ended: YIELDING AND PAYING therefor yearly and every year the Sum of Four shillings and two pence Sterling, in Current Dollars of the said Colony of Hongkong, (at such rate of exchange, as is now, or may hereafter from time to time be fixed as the rate of exchange, for the payment of the Salaries of the Public Servants of the said Colony), by half yearly payments, on the Twenty-fourth day of June, and the Twenty-fifth day of December, in every year, free and clear of and from all taxes, rates, charges, impositions and assessments whatsoever imposed or to be imposed upon or in respect of the said hereby demised premises, or any part thereof, during the term hereby granted; the first half yearly payment of the said yearly rent or Sum of Four shillings and two pence Sterling to be made on the Twenty-fourth day of June 1848, AND THE SAID D. LUIGI AMBROSI, for himself, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns doth hereby covenant, promise and agree, to and with Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns by these presents, in manner following, that is to say, that he the said D. LUIGI AMBROSI, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns shall and will yearly, and every year, during the said term of Nine hundred and ninety-nine years hereby granted, well and truly pay, or cause to be paid to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, the said yearly Sum of Four shillings and two