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APPENDIX TO REPORT FROM THE LAND COMMISSION OF 1886-87.

Appendix, No. 7.

SPECIMENS OF GRANTS AND LICENCES ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OR

GOVERNMENT OFFICERS.

(No. 1.)

FORM OF CROWN LEASE UNDER THE SEAL OF THE COLONY AND SIGNED

BY THE GOVERNOR.

THIS INDENTURE, made the

day of

One thousand eight hundred and eighty-

BETWEEN OUR SOVEREIGN LADY VICTORIA, by the GRACE of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, of the one part, and

of the other part. WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, made and dated at Westminster, the Fifth day of April in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies were erected into a Colony, and full power and authority to the Governor of the said Colony of Hongkong, for the time being, were given and granted in the Name of Her said Majesty, and on Her behalf (but subject nevertheless to such provisions as might be in that respect contained in any Instructions which might from time to time be addressed to him by Her said Majesty,) to make and execute, in the Name and on the behalf of Her said Majesty, under the Public Seal of the said Colony, grants of Land to Her said Majesty belonging, within the said Colony, to private persons for their own use and benefit, or to any Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, in trust for the public uses of Her said Majesty's Subjects there resident, or any of them; AND WHEREAS under and by virtue of certain other Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, made and dated at Westminster, on the Ninth day of April, in the Fortieth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and of a Commission under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date the

in the

Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty,

day of

was constituted and appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies; NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that in consideration of the sum of

and of the yearly rent, covenants and stipulations hereinafter reserved and contained, by and on the part and behalf on the said

Executors, Administrators and Assigns, to be paid, done and performed; HER SAID MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, DOTH hereby grant and demise, unto the said

Executors, Administrators and Assigns, ALL that piece or parcel of Ground situate, lying and being [here describe parcels] together with the message or messuages, tenement or tenements, erections and buildings now standing and being thereon, and all the easements and appurtenances whatsoever to the said demised premises belonging, or in any-wise appertaining. EXCEPT AND RESERVED unto Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, all Mines, Minerals and. Quarries of Stone in, under and upon the said premises, and all such Earth, Soil, 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 hereinbefore demised, to view, 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

Executors, Administrators, or Assigns; AND ALSO SAVE AND EXCEPT full power to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns to make and conduct in, through and under the said 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 expressed to be demised, with their and every of their appurtenances, unto the said Executors, Administrators and Assigus, from the

One thousand eight hundred and eighty

day of

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