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C. O.

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And I APR 95

To the Right Honourable

Enclosure 1.

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Hongkong, January 28th, 1895.

THE MARQUESS OF RIPON, K.G., 6,0,8.1., C,I.E.

HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE

FOR THE COLONIES.

Sheweth as follows:-

The Humble Memorial of the undersigned

Owners of or persons interested in Leasehold

Premises in the Colony of Hongkong.

1.-Your Memorialists are Leaseholders and Mortgagees of or

are otherwise interested in landed property in Hongkong and include in their number the Owners of the houses mentioned in the 1st and 2od Schedules attached to a Hongkong Ordinance known as "The Closed Houses and Insanitary Dwellings Ordinance, 1894."

2.-This Ordinance was passed by the Legislative Council of Hongkong upon

See for the stereof being carri the 29th day of December, 1894, by the votes of the six official members of the Legislative Council against the protests and the votes of the fout official members of that Council, and the interests of your Memorialists are peculiarly affected by the said Ordinance.

3. Your Memorialists desire to direct your Lordship's special attention to the 16th

Section of the above-mentioned Ordinance which provides as follows:-

No Suit or Action shall be commenced or lie, or, if commenced be continued against the Sanitary Board or its officers or the Permanent Committee thereof or any person acting under the authority of the Sanitary Board or the Permanent Committee for any loss or damage incurred by or resulting to any person by reason-

(a) of the removal of the occupants of any house mentioned in the 1st and 2nd

Schedules hereto.

(b) of the shutting up or closing of any such house or any part thereof.

(c) of the destruction or removal of or of the damage to any buildings, wells, furniture, fittings, mezzanine floors, cocklofts, partitions or articles in any such house or curtilage closed or disinfected by orders of the Sanitary Board, provided such destruction, removal or damage occurred during the y prevalence of the Bubonic Plague or during any operations which were necessary or deemed necessary by the Board for the cleansing and disinfecting of any such houses, or

(d) Of any loss of rent whatever in respect of any such house, or,

(e) of the continued possession of any such house and cartilage or any part thereof by the Sanitary Board or the Permanent Committee thereof pending the carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance in respect thereof.