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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21st NOVEMBER, 1891.
PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY, VIZ.:—
Surveyor General's Department.
Central Market,
$ 26,822
Gap Rock Lighthouse,
52,640
Praya Reclamation (Ordinance 16 of 1889),
Government Contribution,
100,000
Praya Reclamation site for proposed Western
Market,-
29,469
Training Albany Nullah and Branches,
18,000
Slaughter-house, and Sheep and Pig Depôts,
12,875
Public Laundries,
13,000
Civil Hospital, Staff Quarters,
18,999
Police Station, Aberdeen,
21,031
Quarters for Superintendent of Botanical and
Afforestation Department,
16,000
Minor Works, (under $10,000),
84,354
Water and Drainage Department,
New Water Mains and Distributory System
of Victoria Water Works,
65,000
Peak Water Supply,
30,000
Sewerage of Victoria,
60,000
House Service Account,
12,000
Stores Account,
Minor Works,
50,000
20,817
Total,
$631,007
Title.
Short title.
Completion.
Buildings commenced
under No. 15
of 1889.
Repeat.
Walls.
External and party walls-- thickness of
BE
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend The Building
Ordinance 1889.
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The
Building (Amendment) Ordinance, 189 and shall be con-
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strued and read as one with The Building Ordinance, 1889, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.
2. Any building already commenced in accordance with the principal Ordinance may be completed in accordance with such principal Ordinance or with such principal Ordi- nance as hereby amended.
3. In section 7 of the principal Ordinance the definition 9 “Public building" shall be deemed to include any building used as a Hotel or Club.
4. The provisions of section 9 of the principal Ordinance shall apply to any warehouse of upwards of 50 feet in height. 5. Sections 10 to 14 inclusive of the principal Ordinance are hereby repealed but such repeal shall not affect, any thing done or suffered thereunder and the following sec- tions are hereby substituted therefor.
Walls.
"10. Every wall constructed of brick, stone, or other hard and incombustible substance, shall be solid across its entire thickness, and shall be properly bonded and substantially put together with good lime-mortar or cement-mortar, aud except where specially permitted in this Ordinance, no part of such wall shall be thicker than any part underneath it, and all cross-walls and return-walls shall be properly bonded into main-walls. Sound black bricks may be exclusively used in the walls of the two uppermost stories of a building but not in the walls of the other stories without the approval of the Surveyor General.
"11. Every person who shall erect a new building shall construct every external and every party wall of such building in accordance with the following rules and in every case the thickness prescribed. shall be the minimun thickness of which such wall may be constructed.
(a.) Where the wall does not exceed 12 feet in height
it shall be 9 inches thick for its whole height. (b.) Where a wall exceeds 12 feet in height but does not exceed 40 feet in height it shall be 134 inches thick for its whole height.