11.
12.
Actual scale of my
Halls of upper Any
414.
tenements destroyed-
9
inches
Do of Second Hay
132
Do of Banment May
132
-
Thus
my
scale
me, or
any.
of building without
any sort of specification befor
local Law to sule me, was no less than 20 per bent
higher than the requirements of the corresponding class of houses in the City of London ! (the materials being precisely the same, ory: brick and stone. ) I am willing to rest claim for compensation upon any
substantiation of this fact. and submit with all deference,
that
a
any
to as
scale of construction which is held sufficient for the metropols of the would was good enough for Hong Kong in the absence of all prescribed scale . It is not out of place to observe that the still higher scale laid down in the Building Act of this Colong presocuted, not by an experienced Architect a Surveyor, but by Military Engineer, while no evidence as to suitablences upon this or other point of this ordinance was taken by a Closed Legislature.
any
I now approach as point inth is case,
entreal
your
most grave
attention.
I am informed by your order that.
the papers laid before you that
a
Sir, to which I would
a
“,
& you
cannot suppose from
my
work's were so
eo far proceeded
with, on the occasion of the first interruption as to have rendered
as to the level which
that interruption of material consequend time. I am willing to accept the late Suweyor Benuals oron shewing my works had attained, on occasion of the fist interruption. Accading
to his acceunt, they had reached that level to which
he