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upon according to such rates. "The regulation for the depth of foundations walls many cases quite inapplicable in this Colony) where frequently the foundation is solid rock.

There is nothing in the Ordinance to compel the use of Chunam or mortar in building walls " solidly of bricks or stones" and I conceive that the Surveyor General could not legally legally insist upon its use. The duty of carrying. out the Nuisance (lguses of

I found so quantity. of correspondence which it entailed so

to great that veriff

the. Ordinance i onerous and the

serious inconvenience, was

the

felt by every Officer in t Department and I was compelled to apply for the rvices of an Inspector of

serr

Nuisances which His

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Excellency at once granted, and to have printed forms of Notices which the inspector might be able to fill up and submit for my signature.

formy This arrangement has, up to the present period worked admirably. Thaving been only in one case compelled to take out a summons, and

a

going into Court & found

my requirements had

in

been complied withe

mean time.

This portion of my Report belongs also properly to the year 1887, but was anxious to place my opinions with regard to the Ordinance in question on record and to express a hope that it may

never be abandoned but

that it may be opeedily

amended.

At the latter end of.