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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH MAY, 1889.
Boundary wall, &c.
Retaining wall, &c.
Doors not to open over public tborough- fares.
Wells.
Piers and wharves.
Plan of building to be approved by Surveyor
General.
water-channel situated on Crown Land or within private land, unless such person shall at his sole cost have made previous provision, to the entire satisfaction of the Surveyor General, for the escape of any waters flowing through such drain, nullah, catch-water or other clíannel.
64. No person shall, after the passing of this Ordinance, construct or reconstruct any boundary wall or enclosure wall of stone, fronting any public road or thoroughfare within the City of Victoria, unless such wall is solid throughout its entire thickness and built of brick or stone properly bedded and bonded together, and surmounted by a coping of dressed stone or properly moulded bricks set in cement-mortar.
65. No person shall after the commencement of this Ordinance, construct or reconstruct, any stone surcharged retaining-wall or scarp-wall whether of rubble masonry built dry or in mortar, exceeding twelve feet in height, unless such wall is provided with one or more adequate foundation- courses of footing stones cut to flat beds, and bedded on a layer of lime concrete at least six inches thick laid on the solid ground, and such footing stones shall project at least six inches beyond the face of such wall, and shall extend back the full thickness of the wall, and every such retain- ing-wall or scarp-wall shall be provided at every square yard of surface-area of such wall with a header or bond- stone, at least one foot square, extending back through the full thickness of the masonry.
66. Save as by this Ordinance provided, and except in the case of public buildings, all the doors of which shall open outwards and in the direction of exit, it shall not be lawful for any person to make any door or gate in such manner as to open over a public thoroughfare, nor to project any door step or landing on, to, or across any public foot-path, nor to extend or affix any sun-shade, telegraph-wire, sign-board, lamp, grating, gutter or other unauthorized projection from any building, in such manner as shall cause obstruction, danger, or annoyance to any way or to the passengers thereon, or as shall make any encroachment on Crown Land.
Wells.
67. It shall not be lawful for the owner of any building to sink any well upon his premises, except by the leave of the Surveyor General who may grant the same on a written application, provided such well be not, sunk within the curtilage of any building, or provided there be no structural or other objection. Every well shall be stcined so as to exclude surface water for a depth of at least twelve feet, below the surface of the ground, and shall be surrounded with a brick and cement parapot-wall, at least two feet high and nine iuches thick, and with a properly paved or concreted surface-gutter for the conveyance of the drip or waste water to the nearest drain-inlet or other channel with which such gutter may lawfully communicate.
Piers and Wharves.
68. Except in the case of such piers and wharves as are specially provided for by Ordinance, it shall not be lawful for any person to construct or reconstruct, any iron, timber, or stone pier or wharf projected over any foreshore the property of the Crown, without the previous sanction and authority of the Governor, and unless such person shall have previously signed an undertaking according to the form contained in Schedule D, of this Ordinance; and in cases of reconstruction such undertaking shall supersede any other undertaking which may have been previously signed in respect of such pier or wharf at the time of its original erection. The erection and maintenance of all piers and wharves shall be subject to such Rules and Regulations as may be made by the Governor in Council under this Ordi-
nance.
Plans and Notices to Surveyor General.
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69. It shall not be lawful to commence any building work, until proper plans of the same showing the dimensions and position of all portions of the contemplated structure as are mentioned in this Ordinance shall have been previously · submitted to the Surveyor General and approved by him as being in conformity with the requirements of this Ordinance, a ndsuch plans shall be drawn to a scale of not less than one- sixteenth of an inch to the foot, and shall contain enlarged details with figured dimensions, of the principal features of construction, and in the case of proposed new buildings, or the repair or reconstruction of old buildings, such plans shall show the position and levels of the surrounding ground and buildings.
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