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Shippers of cargo

can be in-

formed that I have 500 of the Dizle Brigade at my disposal if they

want men, but they will have to pay them.

8. W. Robuisons.

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RECO IR 29 APR CS

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 233.

The following Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board on the 13th day of March, 1891, amended on

the 2nd day of April, and approved of by the Legislative Council on the 22nd instant, are hereby published for general information.

By Command,

W. M. DEANE,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd May, 1891.

Bye-laws for licensing and regulating Common Lodging-Houses made under sub-section 12

of section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of

1887 and sub-section D of section

I of Ordinance No. 26

of 1890.

1. A Register of all common lodging-houses shall be kept by the Registrar General in the form of Schedule A appended to these bye-laws,

2. Before a house can be registered as a common lodging- honse, an application must be made to the Registrar General in the form of the Schedule B hereunto appended, setting forth the situation of the bouse, the number of the rooms to be set apart for lodgers and the cubic capacity of each room se set apart, and for this purpose the schedule or form will be furnished by the Registrar Generul.

3. The Registrar General shall transmit cuch application for the registration of a house as a common lodging-house to the Sanitary Board, and the Hoard shall then canse the house specified in such application to be inspected by one or more of its Officers who shall submit a report to the Board on the sanitary condition of such house, and its suitability for use as a common lodging-house.

4. Any house to be registered as a common lodging- house must be substantially built and in a good state of repair, the floors must be paved with tiles or cement concrete or with line concrete rendered with one inch of Port- land cement or bourded with planks close jointed, and all the rooms which are to be used as sleeping rooms must be on all sides above the level of the ground immediately surrounding the house. The house-drains must be in good order and constructed in accordance with the bye-laws re- gulating house drainage, there must be adequate kitchen. ablution, privy, urinal and ash-bin accommodation to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board; and unless when the supply of water is constant, there must be a proper cistern for the storage of water.

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