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if not impossible to make the chines builders keep to the line or levels of an .
aictecided street, and
though they
are marked on the ground as for as . practicable and ustice is
crotice is frequently served on them they will persist in disobeying the orders not seeing the necessity, and then it
and their when the.
street is finished irregularities recur, occasionally inconvenient and unsightly; many of the streets are. 1 in 6 in the best parts of the Toron, and others in Tepingshan require steps there in so steep is the ground,
ed, so that a trifling deviation of level will cause considerable
Invenience particularly as chinese
inconvenie
shops
are made with the whole
front, generally 16 feet, open
as a door
and this pon't they naturally. require for the convenience of custorun,
de rest
to be eas
easy of access, and many besitate to make evncroachments to the general detriment of the Public so that it may benefit themselves,
this,
as far as practicable, is prevented but with such steep ground.
A and
considering that many houses have been built before any
were
Roads
authorized I have found it necessary to have some degree of
consideration, as a strict observance
render the
re
of the live and levels as proposed would frequently rebuilding of a house absolutely
necessary.
It is to correct such
wils that I propose that all land about to be offered for sale, if on steep
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