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3. The plan shall show the position of each grave-space in each section and every such grave- space shall bear a number.
4. A register shall be kept in the English and Chinese languages at or near each cemetery and the date of burial, name, sex, age and registered cause of death of each person shall be entered therein against the number of the grave in which the corpse is interred.
5. Except as regards the corpses of children under five years of age, only one corpse shall be placed in one grave. In the case of the corpses of children under five years of age two corpses may be placed in one grave.
6. Each grave on being filled in shall be covered with turf, chunam or such other material as may be approved of by the Board.
7. No grave may be re-opened after a corpse has been interred therein, without the written per- mission of the Medical Officer of Health or other officer duly appointed by the Board for that purpose. 8. The following fees will be charged for each grave-space and interments in the various sections of the cemeteries.
Section A. Free. Fifty cents for digging, filling in and covering each grave.
B. $1 and a dollar
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Made by the Sanitary Board, this 22nd day of September, 1898.
Approved by the Legislative Council, this 22nd day of November, 1898.
FRANCIS W. Clark,
Acting Secretary.
J. G. T. BUCKLE, Clerk of Councils.
NOTE. -Extract from section 26 of Ordinance 24 of 1887.-"It shall be lawful for the Chinese, in conformity with the provisions of the notifications actually in force, to bury their dead, yet so is that any person who shall use for that purpose a grave of less than six feet in depth from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars."
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 533.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, with the approval of the Secretary of State, has been pleased to make the following appointments in the Public Works Department :- I. M. XAVIER to be Land Surveyor, and THOMAS G. HUGHES to be Assistant Engineer.
By Command,
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Colonia! Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd November, 1898.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 534.
Acting Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint ALEXANDER HENRY LEE-NORMAN to be a Supernumerary Lieutenant in the Field Battery of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, with effect from the 25th day of November, 1898.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th November, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 535.
Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Governor has been pleased to appoint. Major THOMAS CAMERON FITZGERALD SOMERVILLE, The King's Own Regiment, to be His Excellency's Private Secretary, and Lieutenant ALEXANDER HENRY LEE-NORMAN, Hongkong Volunteer Corps, to be His Excellency's Aide-de-Camp with effect from the 25th day of November, 1898.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th November, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.