1054 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH DECEMBER, 1894.
4. Every telegraphic message published under the pro- tection of this Ordinance shall be printed with the heading "By Telegraph," and shall state the date and hour of its receipt in the Colony and of its publication, and such statement shall be primâ facie evidence of the times of the receipt and publication of such message.
5. In any prosecution under this Ordinance the pro- duction of any document which purports to be a telegraphic message duly and regularly issued by any telegraph office in this Colony on its customary form shall be primâ fàcie evidence that the message contained therein was received in this Colony by telegraph, from the place therein men- tioned to the address of the person, association or company therein named and was duly delivered in this Colony to such person, association or company.
6. Any person convicted under the provisions of this Ordinance may, in default of payment of the penalty imposed upon him, be imprisoned for any period not ex- ceeding 3 months unless such penalty is sooner paid.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 462.
The following Additional Bye-laws are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th December, 1894.
ADDITIONAL BYE-LAWS
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Made by the Sanitary Board under Section 13, Sub-section 6,
of Ordinance 24 of 1887.
1. The removal of excretal matters from premises other than those from which such matters are removed by the night-soil contractor, shall be carried out by night-soil carriers registered by and holding a licence from the Sanitary Board.
2. Licences shall be issued in the first instance to the existing private night-soil carriers, and no additional licences shall be granted unless and until the necessity for their issue shall have been shewn to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board.
3. Licences to night-soil carriers shall be issued annually and shall expire on the 31st of Decem- ber of the year in which they are issued.
4. Licences shall be issued free of charge. In the event of the loss of a licence a duplicate shall be issued on payment of a fee of 25 cents.
5. Every night-soil carrier licensed under these bye-laws shall, for the purposes of his work, use a bucket of such pattern as may from time to time be approved by the Sanitary Board.
6. Every night-soil carrier licensed under these bye-laws shall remove at least once in every 24 hours all excretal matters from the premises from which he shall have undertaken to remove such
inatters.
7. No night-soil carrier licensed under these bye-laws shall convey excretal matters along any public street or road except between the hours of 1 A.M. and 7 a.m.
8. The night-soil carriers licensed under these bye-laws shall elect yearly out of their number a Committee of not more than 12 in number to represent them.
9. Such Committee shall assist the Sanitary Board in exercising a strict supervision over the licensed night-soil carriers, and in such other matters connected with the carrying out of these bye- laws as it may be called upon to do by the Board.
10. Any licensed night-soil carrier, being convicted of a second offence against these bye-laws, shall forfeit his licence in addition to any penalty inflicted under section 83 of the Public Health Ordinance.
Made by the Sanitary Board on the 18th day of October, 1894.
Approved by the Legislative Council, this 6th day of December, 1894.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
HONGKONG.
EDWARD A. RAM, Acting Secretary.
J. G. T. BUCkle, Acting Clerk of Councils.