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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

LLIC.O./133

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO | BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

13 ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON:

amendments and additions, could be made to meet all the

The

requirements of the Colony). rapidity with which it is evident the Chinese portion of the City must have sprung into exeestence and the great. frequency of conflagratins cos

rendered some such Ordinance

necessary), but I am of opinion that the whole duty and responsibility of currying its provisions into effect ought

never to have been thrown

upon the Surveyor General personally. Mity Surveyor should have been appointed with a liberal Salary, which could have been provided for by Fees for each neurerection and for each alteration of amf

lother, and the Surveyor General, constituted, the Official Referee only, One or two every

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ecessary additions should be

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made to the Ordinance without delay, namely That Plans,

Sections and Elevations to an uniform scale of one eighth of one inch to one foot together with a Descriptive Specification of every Building proposed to

be created altered or added to should be deposited with the Surveyor General for approval, such plans, &c : should, whew the drainage and its connexion

with the main sewer, and the

water supply, if any; The thickness of the walls should be figured on the Plans and heights on the Sections . By this arrangement the Surveyor General would always be kept informed by persons about

to build, would be enabled to excercive perfect control over the conshuchon of Building and much unpleasantness, would be avoided.