I
a
William low per
exas.
this Colony, and have been
Tuesday June 3rd 1856. 560
:ined on oath, I am the aching Suraya Tuneral of
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and have been so since the 18th of February last. Thare dummoned Builder of this place under paragraph 2 of the new building act for. Contravention of that act. The act is dated the 16th of April last have_ observed the progress of the mock now presented .
work as a &uisance from time to time presions to the 16th of April but I neur goue any mitice surbal
those
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Cases,
or written to the Contractor in the lose. I do not know that I have him, I never could get the Chinese to understand me in believe it was because they did not Chorce to understand one. I have never Served any written notices Ihres no time for such meeting. Thaes never Caused any placards to be posted up warning the people încerned aga infringing the Ordinance upon which I now prosecute them recuind any placonds for the purpose. Imean prior to the promulgation of the building Ordinance, I have received a parail of placards in Chinese since the 99th of May
and since my former lases under this prevented at the Office, but neither in the former Cases nor in the present one have I served any written notices upon any of
Ordinance
Mere
Man or two men.
marning
More
the
More
Offenders. I never could find them I recollect verbally. "Lunyou or "Deum lai and three or four
of Compound namas, but all verbally, my complaint against the works of the Defendant on the present lase is this. That where as the building act requires that the basement to all of all tenemente having
one uper story should be of 18 inches in thickness the walls in question only of 151⁄2 moner, I further present that. the flong joists of me house Cross into those of another instead of being kept the "ength of a brick a part.
Cross examined by Mr Green for Defendant-
than
are
Par pust quite sure that I have examined the cational salle of
not
the henses.
New
- presented, ony impression is that the external and parti walls are of the Same dimensions, Thave satiefied Myself