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That for the better protection of the Roads and more parkcularly the Foot - paths of the Sheets and Roads

each house or Verandah; conshucked

should be with dripping raves supplied witheaves guttering and down spouts to convey the rain water either into a Drain or Tank or into the.. vide channel, or if constructed with close gutters with down. s pouts from such gutters into a drain, tank orpide channel.

That each fire place be provided, with a brick, trimmer arch under the hearth stone and that no

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girder or joist be slaid within eighteen inches. of any flue.

fire place.

That no flue be less than 1st inches by Ginches.

That the socantlings of

all timber Bresoumers girders

and

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of

and joists of floors all the beams principal rafters

• and purlins of roofs be submitted,

fire fabzon for approval to the Surveyor Generabat the same time that

We the plans, to are deposited.

That when houses are

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built, contiguously in the division on party walls should be carried sup, through the Roof and terminated as parapets 18 inches above the back of the tiles, states or quarries. The observance of this last regulation) would tend to confind a fire to the house in which it might break out. The thickness of the walls specified in the Ordinance is excessive for small building and not sufficient for large

ones;

Building should be classified into first, second and third rates and the thicknesses of the walls insisted

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