tion.
1894.
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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JUNE,
building, or otherwise to comply with any Bye-law made or to be made under the authority of sections 32 and 33 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, shall be liable on summary conviction before a Magistrate to a continuing penalty not exceeding $10 per day for every day during which such neglect continues after the date limited in and by any such notice. Such penalty may be in substitution for or in addition to any other penalty to which any such person may be liable under this or any other Ordinance.
6. The provisions of section 76 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, shall apply to any orders or notices issued under any Bye-laws made or hereafter made by the Sanitary Board under the authority of sections 32 and 33 of the said Ordinance.
7. In addition to all other powers and authorities vested in the said Permanent Committee it shall be lawful for the said Permanent Committee, without any notice to any person interested as Crown lessee, or otherwise, to take possession and make use of any unoccupied lands or buildings of whatever kind under lease from the Crown, and with the consent of the Governor of any unoccupied lands not under. lease from the Crown, that the said Permanent Committee may reasonably require for the purpose authorised by sections 32 to 37 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, or any Bye-laws made or to be made thereunder or for the purposes of this Ordinance. In case possession of unoccupied lands or buildings under lease from the Crown is taken, the said Committee is hereby authorised to pay, during such time as possession is retained, a fair and reasonable rent for the same and upon delivering up possession thereof the Per- manent Committee shall so far as practicable cause the land to be restored to the condition in which it was when posses- sion was taken and shall cause all buildings to be thoroughly disinfected, cleansed and lime-washed and delivered up in as good a state of repair as at the date when possession was taken.
In the case of lands of which possession is taken with the consent of the Governor the Permanent Committee shall not pay any rent therefor.
Nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to affect any land or buildings under lease to or in possession of the Military or Naval Authorities.
Extension of section 76 of The Public Health Ordi- nance, 1887.
Power for the Permanent Committee to take posses sion of certain lands, &o.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 220.
The following telegrain from Her Majesty's Minister at Tokio is published for general informa-
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th June, 1894.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.
TELEGRAM.
(H. B. M. Minister, Tokio, to Governor, Hongkong.)
Japanese Government have issued Decree making Medical Inspection Regulations of 1882 appli- cable to vessels arriving from Hongkong during prevalence of bubonic plague. Have made regulation binding on British subjects.
FRASER.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 221.
His Excellency the Governor has received with deep regret the intelligence of the Death of Mr. HUGH FRASER, Her Majesty's Minister at Tokio.
This sad event occurred at 8.45 on Monday Evening.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th June, 1894.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.