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IN THE MATTER OF HONGKONG MARINE LOT No. 184

AND

THE PRAYA RECLAMATION ORDINANCE, 1889.

WE, Robert Kennaway Leigh of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Civil Engineer, Land Surveyor and Valuator, and James Orange of the same place, Civil Engineer, Land Surveyor and Valuator, do solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows, that is to say :-

And first I, the said Robert Kennaway Leigh for myself say :-

1. I am a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, and I was for three years an Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department of Hong- kong and since that time I have for the past sixteen years been in private practice in Hongkong as a Civil Engineer, Land Surveyor and Valuator, and have had during such last mentioned sixteen years considerable experience in ascertaining and computing the value of lands and buildings in various parts of Hongkong and I believe myself well qualified to judge of the value of Marine Lot No. 184, Hongkong, hereinafter mentioned and of like property in the vicinity thereof.

And I, the said James Orange for myself say :-

2. I am a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, also a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, also a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, and a Member of the Society of Architects, and I was for six and a half years an Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department of Hongkong and Resident Engineer of the Tytam Water Works, Hongkong, and since that time I have for the past nine years been in private practice in Hongkong as a Civil Engineer, Land Surveyor and Valuator, and have had during such last mentioned nine years considerable experience in ascertaining and computing the value of lands and buildings in various parts of Hongkong and I believe myself well qualified to judge of the value of Marine Lot No. 184, Hongkong, hereinafter mentioned and of like property in the vicinity thereof,

And we the said Robert Kennaway Leigh and James Orange severally say :- 3. We have in pursuance of instructions received from Messrs. Stephens and Howard, the owners of the said Marine Lot 184. made a careful survey, estimates and valuations of the said Marine Lot 184, and in so doing we have taken into consideration the tenure and situation of the said Lot, the nature of the business for which the buildings erected thereon had been erected and used and what would be a fair price to be realised on a sale thereof both as a Marine Lot before the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889, was carried into effect and as an Inland Lot now that the works of the Praya Reclamation are proceeding in front of the said Lot, and we have embodied our said Estimates and Valuations in our Report dated the 28th day of December, 1898, which Report is hereunto annexed marked "A."

4. We say that our said Report is a true and correct statement of the facts and figures therein given and set forth to the best of our knowledge information and belief.

And we severally make this solemn Declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of "The Statutory Declaration Act, 1835."

SEVERALLY DECLARED by the said Robert y

Kennaway Leigh and James Orange (Sd.) R. K. LEIGH.

at the Supreme Court House Victoria

in Hongkong this Seventeenth day of February, 1899.

(S.) J. ORANGE.

Before me,

The Seal of the -Supreme Court of Hongkong.

[L S.]

(Sd.) A. SETH,

Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court of

Hongkong, and a Commissioner

to Administer Oaths.