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Part IV.
RIGHTS OF BUILDING AND ADJOINING OWNERS.
Sections 236 to 250 define the rights, privileges and liabilities of adjoining owners in regard to footings, party walls and other party structures, and are taken hodily from Part VIII of the London Building Act, 1894, (57 and 58 Vic., Cap. CCXIII.)
Part V.
ARBITRATION.
Sections 251 to 254 prescribe the manner in which the amount of compensa- tion payable by the Crown for loss incurred under this Ordinance shall be arrived at-the principle recognized being that of arbitration with an appeal to a Judge in Chambers.
Part VI.
CONTRAVENTIONS AND PENALTIES.
Part VII.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Appeals to Governor in Council, Application of Ordinance and Preservation of . existing rights.
SCHEDULE A. Enactments repealed.
SCHEDULE B. Bye-laws.
Common Lodging-houses, Offensive trade premises, and Opium Divans are required to be lime-washed quarterly instead of half-yearly.
Drains passing under a building shall be of cast iron coated inside with Dr. ANGUS SMITH's patent composition or other material approved of by the Board All openings in walls for the discharge of drainage shall be protected by fixed gratings,
Market stalls are required to be cleansed twice daily instead of once.
The Regulations made under the Rats Ordinance have been incorporated in this Schedule.
February 16th, 1903.
SCHEDULES C-L.
Rules and Regulations.
FRANCIS W. CLark,
Medical Officer of Health.
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Enclosure 4 to Despatch No. 116- of 325
the 10th March, 1903. A.
To His EXCELLENCY,
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MAJOR GENERAL SIR WILLIAM JULIUS GASCOIGNE, K.C.M.G. Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Commander-in-chief and Vice-Admiral of the same.
The Humble Petition of the Chinese Community of Hongkong.
RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH,
1. That your Petitioners are Chinese Merchants, members of professions, traders. mechanics, artisans, labourers and others constituting the Chinese Community of the Colony of Hongkong,
2. That your Petitioners (who constitute the vast majority of the Colonists of Hongkong and upon whose efforts the success of the Colony largely Depends) have for years past carried on peace- fully their various vocations and trades in this Colony, and have long enjoyed the puissant protection of the British Flag and lived under the equitable dispensation of British law and justice.
3. That relying confidently upon fair and impartial legislation in this British Colony as well as upon an equal administration of its law and equity, a large number of your Petitioners have invested their earnings and wealth in the landed property within its jurisdiction, while many of their compatriots in the main land opposite inspired by the same confidence and reliance have laid out much of their capital in the purchase of its houses and tenements.
4. That on the 7th day of July, 1902, a Bill entitled "An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Public Health and to Buildings" was read a first time in the Legislative Council of this Colony, which Bill contains some two hundred and seventy six sections, and either wholly or partially repeals no less than twenty four previous enactments, but although it affects very materially the interests of the Chinese, no translation of it into the Chinese language has yet been made.
5. That besides seeking to consolidate the existing laws relating to Public Health and Buildings, the Bill purports to have for its principal object the further improvement of the general sanitation of this Colony, in the endeavour to effect which latter purpose many drastic and altogether unprecedented and unwarranted clauses have been introduced. which if passed into law, would not only eutail great and serious loss and sacrifice, but would leave the individuals snftering the same without reasonable and adequate compensation,
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