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17.
What follows in this report relates to the actual provisions
of the Ordinance.
For a proper appreciation of paragrapha (b)
and (g) of section 2, it may be well to explain that in most
Chinese houses sub-letting is carried down to very small units.
The most common type of Chinese house consists of a shop or office
on the ground floor and two or more upper floors which are used
for domestic occupation. In many cases the house is rented by
the owners of the shop, who occupy the ground floor for the pur-
pose of their business and also for the purpose of habitation by,
at least, the employees of the shop. Sometimes the owner or
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partners live there also. Each of the upper floors, unless re-
quired by the owners of the shop, is let to a principal tenant.
This principal tenant in turn sub-lets cubicles and bed spaces
on the floor, retaining probably one cubicle for himself.
the sub-tenante have the common use of the kitchen. In other
cases the landlord of the whole house lets out the ground floor
to a shop and the upper floors to separate principal tenants.
18.
The boarding houses referred to in the main part of paragraph
(b) of section 2 were included because many of these boarding
houses are used by té permanent residents, though of course cer-
tain classes of these boarding houses are also used by visitors.
19.
Sub-paragraph(iv) of paragraph (b) of section 2 was inserted
because the charges made by boarding house keepers to their visit-
ors or residents involve questions of personal service, etc.
20.
Sub-paragraph (vi) of paragraph (b) of section 2 was inserted
because the Custodian of Enemy Propertyhas at present vested in
him certain house property formerly belonging to various German
Kany of the houses are ig a bad state of repair,
and, as the Custodian has not sufficient funds to provide for the
missions.