THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 13TH JUNE, 1883. 483

10.-All householders within the City of Victoria shall provide themselves with suitable dust-boxes as prescribed in Ordinance No. 7 of 1883, Section 10, and all the day's house-sweepings, ashes, offal and refuse shall be deposited and kept in the dust-box, and in no other place or receptacle, and all persons shall see that their dust-boxes are emptied every morning into the public dust-carts.

11.-No person shall on any account permit any deposit of kitchen refuse, dry rubbish, offal, or noxious matter of any kind to remain on his premises over 24 hours, and any person having failed to comply with the preceding regulation and to avail himself of the public dust-carts, shall take imme- diate steps to repair his own neglect by causing the said kitchen refuse, rubbish, or noxious matter to be removed at once to the nearest public dust-bin.

12. For the reception of such house-refuse as may collect within the city of Victoria after the hours of removal by the dust-carts, public dust-bins will be maintained by the Government at the following places:--

1. Jardine's Bazaar.

2. Lung On Street.

3. Ship Street.

4. Wing Fun Street.

5. Canton Bazaar.

6. Garden Road, Albany.

7. Government Offices.

8. Mosque.

10. Po Yan Street.

11. Pound Lane. 12. Possession Point.

13. Robinson Road. 14. Chuk Lin Street.

15. Bonham Road.

16. Eastern Street. 17. Pokfulam Road.

9. Caine Road.

13.--Public boats of approved pattern for the reception and removal of house-refuse, debris, dry rubbish, and all waste-products shall be stationed in summer between the hours of 4 A.M. and 7 A.M., and in winter between the hours of 5 A.M. and 7.30 A.M., at the following Wharves :--

1. Jardine's Bazaar.

2. Ship Street, Wán-tsai.

3. Eastern Market. 4. Ice House Street.

5. Pottinger Street.

6. Gilman Street.

7. Cleverly Street.

8. Queen Street. 9. Eastern Street. 10. French Street. 11. Shék-t'ong-tsui.

14. No.noxious or offensive trade which shall in the opinion of the Sanitary Board be in any way injurious to the Public Health shall be carried on within the City of Victoria.

15. No trade or occupation likely to injure or destroy side channels, shall be carried on in any public road, street, or thoroughfare; and no materials or object of any kind shall be placed or maintained in or over the side channels in such manner as to restrict, check or impede the flow of the rain drainage along such side channels.

16.-No person shall deposit any earth, dry rubbish, or noxious matter on any thoroughfare, any waste or vacant lands or on any foreshore, nullah, drain, place or receptacle other than such places or receptacles as are hereby authorised, or to be authorised, and in respect of the common offence of shooting building débris on to public thoroughfares, open spaces, drain-mouths, nullahs, or foreshores within the City of Victoria, building-contractors and other employers of labour shall for such offence be held equally responsible with their servants, and such building contractors and employers of labour shall take the necessary steps in every case to ensure that all building débris is carried to and deposited only in the dust-boats or the dust-bins, or in such other places only as may be licensed in writing by the Surveyor General.

17.-No house-boat or inhabited-boat of any kind shall establish itself within the enclosure of the Typhoon Refuge at Causeway Bay or in the Bowrington Canal, or in the Yaumati Refuge, or on any foreshore above low-water mark for a longer time than in the opinion of the Police shall be absolutely necessary for its safety during stress of weather, or for the purposes of repair, or for embarking or landing persons or cargo, or under normal circumstances for a longer period than one low tide, and any nuisances committed in respect of the disposal of waste products by the owner or the occupants of a boat shall be deemed the same in all respects as if committed by a householder or occupant of a shore

tenement.

18. Any breach of the preceding regulations shall, upon summary conviction before a Police Magistrate, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding three months.

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