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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1888.
Board meetings.
Quorum.
Standjug Orders.
Power to make Bye-Laws.
be paid from the Colonial Treasury to such officers, such salaries and allowances as the Governor, with the consent of the Legislative Council, may from time to time determine.
10. The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The President may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed by throe members of the Board, summon a meeting thereof.
11. Any four members shall be a quorum for the des- patch of business, and at every meeting, the President or Vice-President shall preside, or, in their absence, the mem- bers present shall appoint a Chairman. The President or Vice-President or in their absence the Chairman so appointed, shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.
12. The Board may from time to time make Standing Orders for regulating the mode and order of procedure at its meetings, for the appointment of Select Committees, for the conduct of its business between such meetings, and for the guidance of its Officers, and may from time to time alter and amend such Standing Orders.
13. The Board shall have power to make, and when made, to alter, amend, or revoke Bye-Laws with regard to the following matters :—
1. The proper construction, trapping, ventilating, and maintenance of private house-drains in the City of Victoria, and the villages, and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon.
2. The provision and proper construction of dust
boxes in private premises.
3. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order
to arrest damp in dwelling-houses.
4. The cleansing, lime-whiting, and proper sanitary
maintenance of all premises in the Colony.
5. The sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals,
dust-bins, and manure-depôts.
6. Surface scavenging, the removal and disposal of
night soil and of other refuse.
7. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation
and the prohibition of their use as such.
3. The protection of the public water supply from
pollution.
9. The prevention of the manufacture or sale of un-
sound, adulterated, or unwholesome food.
10. The regulation of bakehouses, dairies, ærated water manufactories, and food preserving establish-
ments.
11. The prohibition of the establishment within certain limits, and the control of any noxious or offensive trade, business, or manufacture.
12. The sanitary maintenance of Common Lodging- Houses, opium smoking divans, factories, and places of public instruction, recreation, or as- sembly.
13. The prevention of overcrowding in premises, either in respect of human beings or the lower animals. 14. The licensing and regulation of all depôts and pens
for cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.
15. The sanitary maintenance of markets and slaughter-
houses.
16. The construction, licensing, and proper sanitary maintenance of pig-sties in private premises. 17. The breaming of vessels, and the maintenance of
cleanliness in the harbour of Victoria, the waters of the Colony, and the foreshores thereof. 18. The disposal of the dead, the disinfection of dead bodies, and the sanitary maintenance of mortuaries and cemeteries.
19. The compulsory vacating of infected premises, and the disinfection and purification of the same.
20. The disinfection and purification of all infected
vessels and public vehicles.
21. The mitigation or prevention of epidemic, endemic,
or contagions disease among animals,