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Enclosure 1.

Minute by the Surveyor General.

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REGE JAN 0

1 submit (1) that what is meant by the

ground line in clause 14 is the finished level of the

ground;

(2) that the aciiciency in clause 28 is co-

vered by clauses li and 31;

() that it would have been better if the

Wolas ' and in such a manner that no wood work approaches

*nearer than 15 inones to the rate or stove'; were added;

(clause 59. }

(4) that when rooms are in the same occupancy

the risk of the spread of fire is decreased;

(5) in clause 46 the death below

the floor was reduced to a minimum in order to avoid

excavation as much as possible on the steep hill sides;

(6) in clause 47 the words wherever possible

were inserted to meet existing conditions. 1 understand

that the clauses respecting privies were the result of a

compromise arrived at with considerable difficulty.

(7) Privies in Chinese houses have mostly

tiled floors which are washed by pouring water over them;

it is necessary to provide for the escape of this water hy

gratings in the floor.

(Signed) S. Krown,

Surveyor General.

20th. November, 1839.