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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST NOVEMBER, 1884.
Contract of Night-soil Removal.
1.The Government night-soil Contractor shall remove daily all night-soil, urine, and foul waters from all the public latrines in the city, and from such public latrines as may be hereafter erected during the term of his contract. He shall also remove all night-soil, urine, and animal manure from the public markets and slaughter houses in the town, as also from all Government buildings within the City of Victoria, and from public or private tenements situated in the Hill Districts of Victoria Peak, Mount Gough, and Mount Kellet. In carrying out this work he shall use closely-covered buckets made of such size, pattern and material as may be approved of by the Sanitary Board.
2.-With the sole exception contained in the following clause, all night-soil, urine, and animal manure within the City of Victoria shall be the absolute and exclusive property of the Government night-soil Contractor for the time being, and no person shall be at liberty to dispose of such night-soil, urine, or animal manure, except by its direct trausmission to the Government night-soil Contractor's boats.
3. The night-soil and urine of such public latrines as are held by private Licencees within the City of Victoria shall form the sole exception to the foregoing clause. Such Licencees shall continue to retain the ownership of the night-soil and urine of such public latrines, paying to the Government night-soil Contractor three cents for each picul removed from the latrine to the anchorage station off Stone Cutters' Island.
4. The Contractor shall have charge of all the free public latrines and urinals in the City of Victoria, and he shall provide an adequate number of coolies to keep such latrines and urinals at all times in a cleanly condition.
5.-The Government night-soil Contractor shall provide strong substantial boats suitable in number and size, with closely fitting hatches, and of a special constructional type to be defined to him by the Sanitary Inspector, and the carrying capacity and crew of each boat shall not be less than specified in the following list:-
Night-soil Boats.
No.
STATION.
CARRYING CAPACITY IN PICULS WEIGHT.
MINIMUM No. OF CREW.
1
Jardine's Bazaar,
100
3
Ship Street,
600
8
3
Eastern Market,
200
5
4
Pottinger Street,
400
5
Gilman's Bazaar,
400
6
6
Cleverly Street,.
600
7
Queen Street,.
600
8
8
New Eastern Street,
400
9
French Street,
200
5
10
Shekt'ongt'sui Nullah,
100
3
2 Spare Boats,
600
2
Do.,
400
6. The night-soil boats shall be stationed daily at the wharves named, between the hours of 2.30 A.M. and 7 A.M. in summer, and 2.30 and 7.30 A.M. in winter, and they shall not be allowed to remain near the Praya, on any account whatever except between the hours above specified, and such boats, as also all night-soil buckets used by the carriers in the employ of the Government night-soil Contractor, shall be carefully washed and cleansed every day after the conveyance of night-soil, so as to be inoffensive to the neighbourhood in which they may be kept. And the Government night-soil Contractor shall on no account allow his carriers or coolies to wash their night-soil buckets in the sea, but he shall see that such buckets are always washed inside the night-soil boats and the water thrown into the boats.
7.-It is distinctly understood that the Government night-soil Contractor shall not throw or deposit any dirt, foul waters, scourings, or any refuse matter, offensive or inoffensive, in any sewer, surface drain, sewer trap, gully hole, street, road, hill-side, or vacant lot either within or without the City of Victoria, nor yet on the foreshore along the Praya, or into the sea at any part of the harbour, nor in any place whatsoever other than that specially prescribed in the following clause.