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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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