THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH DECEMBER, 1897.
any bridge or culvert on or over which the said Tramways are to be constructed, or the lands or foreshore adjoining the same, and the rights, powers and privileges given by this Ordinance are so given, saving and reserving always the rights of Her Majesty, and of all bodies politic and corporate, and of all other persons and those claiming by, from, and under them except as herein otherwise provided.
17. This Ordinance shall come into force on the first Commence- day of December, 1897,
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 25th
ment of Ordinance.
day of October, 1897.
J. G. T. BUCKLE, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 25th day of October, 1897.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 537.
The following Minutes are published.
By Command,
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J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd December, 1897.
No. 22.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a meeting held on Thursday, the 18th day of November, 1897.
PRESENT:
The Principal Civil Medical Officer, (Dr. JonN MITFORD ATKINSON), President.
The Captain Superintendent of Police, (The Honourable FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.), Vice-President. The Director of Public Works, (The Honourable ROBERT DALY ORMSBY).
NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.
ABSENT:
The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE Stewart Lockhart).
The Medical Officer of Health, (Dr. FRANCIS WILLIAM CLARK).
Minutes.-The minutes of meetings held on the 28th day of October and 4th day of November, 1897, were read and confirmed.
The President addressed the Board and moved--
That bye-law No. 4 of the bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board under section 13 of Ordinance 15 of 1894 on the 19th March, 1895, and approved by the Legislative Council on the 20th day of March, 1895, and which was published in Government Notification No. 111 of 1895, be repealed from the 13th day of November, 1897, being the date of publication in the Gazette of bye-law No. 27 made under section 13 of Ordinance 15 of 1894, on the 4th day of November, 1897, and approved by the Legislative Council on the 8th day of November, 1897.
Mr. N. J. EDE seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bubonic Plague.-A return showing the progress of Bubonic Plague in Bombay, from the 1st to the 19th October, 1897, was laid on the table.
Venice Sanitary Conference.-A circular despatch from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies intimating that the German Government had now accepted Chapter II of the Venice Convention, was laid on the table.
Quarantine Regulations.-A circular despatch from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies transmit- ting a copy of the Regulations as to Cholera, Yellow Fever and Plague at the Ports of Liverpool and Manchester, which were made by the English Local Government Board on the 30th day of August, 1897, was laid on the table.
Defective House Drains.-The Surveyor's reports-which had been circulated to Members-on the condition of the house drains at blocks Nos. 231, 232 and 233, also at Nos. 2A and 44 High Street, were laid on the table and the minutes on the circulating covers read.
The President moved-
That the owners of these houses be called upon to carry out the works recommended by the Surveyor, such works
to be done in accordance with the law governing house drainage works,
The Honourable Director of Public Works seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.