have
purposes and buildings
been created thereon, most
of
them as
far back as
thirty years Owing to
or even more.
the
narrow width (or depth) of the strip of land available for building at the foot of the hill, every square foot of this ground has been utilized, and it is now considered by the Board that the space left about buildings, in order to secure ventilation
and a free circulation of
air
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in the
is, more particularly Chinese part of the City, altogether
inadequate, In
some cases it is
altogether wanting. With regard to buildings to be erected on Crown lands to be hereafter leased, provision
has already been made in the conditions of sale of such lands, and purchasers knowing beforehand that they
are bound to leave
certain spaces clear, can have
nothing to complain of. But there
is every
reason to believe that those
who purchased many years ago
without