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Enclosure 1.
Minute by the Surveyor General.
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REGE JAN 0
1 submit (1) that what is meant by the
ground line in clause 14 is the finished level of the
ground;
(2) that the aciiciency in clause 28 is co-
vered by clauses li and 31;
() that it would have been better if the
Wolas ' and in such a manner that no wood work approaches
*nearer than 15 inones to the rate or stove'; were added;
(clause 59. }
(4) that when rooms are in the same occupancy
the risk of the spread of fire is decreased;
(5) in clause 46 the death below
the floor was reduced to a minimum in order to avoid
excavation as much as possible on the steep hill sides;
(6) in clause 47 the words wherever possible
were inserted to meet existing conditions. 1 understand
that the clauses respecting privies were the result of a
compromise arrived at with considerable difficulty.
(7) Privies in Chinese houses have mostly
tiled floors which are washed by pouring water over them;
it is necessary to provide for the escape of this water hy
gratings in the floor.
(Signed) S. Krown,
Surveyor General.
20th. November, 1839.