850 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1st NOVEMBER. 1884.
2.-The Contractor shall also twice a day scrape or sweep the side channels of the village streets, clearing them of all sand, nuud, and refuse as carefully as the streets themselves.
3.-The Contractor shall empty and cleanse all the public sewer traps at least once a week, and he shall, after voiding them of all mud and filth, fill them with clean water.
4. In rainy weather the contractor shall be responsible that the gratings of the sewer traps are not choked by sand, leaves, or other matters, so that the roads may not be destroyed by the overflow of surface drainage, and he shall be liable for any damage caused through neglect on his part to keep the said gratings clear.
5.-The Contractor shall remove daily in closely covered buckets of approved pattern and material all the night-soil and urine from the public latrines and from the Police Station, as also from any other public building in the village.
6.-The Contractor shall within such hours as may be directed by the Sanitary Inspector empty and thoroughly clean every day all the dust-bins in the village, carefully removing their contents to the manure depôts set apart for the purpose.
7.--The Contractor shall see that neither his coolies nor the public deposit dust or refuse outside the dust-bins, and he shall on no consideration whatsoever allow the raking out and sifting of the contents of the dust-bins, either by his own servants or the public. He shall see that the surroundings of the dust-bins are at all times kept in a cleanly condition.
8. The Contractor shall see that his carriers or coolics do not wash out their night-soil buckets in the sea near any public thoroughfare, nor in any manner likely to be offensive to the neighbourhood, nor at any places other than those to be pointed out to him by the village police.
9.-The Contractor shall not deposit any dust, dirt, sweepings, night-soil, urine, offal, or refuse natters of any kind whatsoever, whether offensive or unoffensive, in any sewer, open drain, sewer trap, gully hole, side channel, street, road, or vacant lot, either within or without the confines of the village, nor yet along the foreshore, nor in any place other than that specially mentioned in the following clause.
10. The Contractor shall transport, either by land or by water as he may elect, all night-soil, offal, mud, filth, dust, sweepings, and all other refuse to the depôts set apart by the Sanitary Board for the reception of manure. If conveyed in a boat, such boat shall he completely decked over, and its carrying capacity shall not be less than piculs, and no boats other than that of the Contractor shall under any pretext be employed for this service. If conveyed by land, all dry sweepings and rubbish may be carried in a suitable light cart, such cart to be provided by the Sanitary Inspector, and to be kept in proper repair by the Contractor at his own cost.
11.-All dry refuse removed from the village to the manure depôts shall be regularly burned by the Contractor.
12.--All manure shall be removed from the manure depôts at least once in every ten days. 13.-The Contractor shall have to his sole usc and benefit all the night-soil of the public latrines, as also all night-soil conveyed by the people to the licensed manure depôts.
14.-The Contractor shall have sole charge of the free public latrines in the village, and be respon- sible for their cleanliness and freedom from smell. He shall place a servant in permanent charge of the latrines, who shall once a day thoroughly wash down and cleanse the floors, the skirting of the interior walls, and the seats, and the Contractor shall on the first week of every month give the interior of the building a coat of limewash.
15.-In the event of an epidemic of any infectious disease occurring in Hougkong, His Excellency the Governor reserves to himself the right of disposing of all night-soil in any manner considered most expedient in the interest of the public health, at the same time allowing the contractor fair compensation for any loss he may actually sustain through such disposal.
16. The Contractor is bound in the strictest manner by the Rules and Regulations issued, and to be issued, by the Governor in Council under Ordinances No. 9 of 1867 and No. 7 of 1883.
17.-Should the Contractor at any time fail to carry out the terms of this agreement, the Sanitary Inspector shall be at liberty to make such arrangements as be may deem necessary for the execution of the work at the charge of the Contractor.
18. And it is hereby lastly distinctly understood that His Excellency the Governor reserves to himself the right of cancelling this agreement without previous notice to the Contractor, at any time upon his Excellency's finding that the Contractor is not fulfilling its terms.
Approved in Excentive Council, this 15th day of October, 1834.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Clerk of Councils,