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# cubic feet of clear and unobstructed air space."
6.
That is the sum and substance of their complaint.
The Petitioners claim, apparently, a right to overcrowd and seem to forget entirely the fact that, quite apart from Bye Law No. 3, the law of the Colony prohibits any such proceeding.
8. They set out in paragraph 18 of the Petition the extent of overcrowding without apparently the slightest notion of the impropriety of permitting it.
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9. Then in paragraph they admit that: - "Some men do in fact stay in the Divans all night, etc., etc."
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But if so an Opium Divan becomes a Domestic Building which by section 3 of the Public Health Ordinance is defined to be "Any human habitation or building where persons pass the night."
11. Now it is unlawful to allow a domestic building to be inhabited in excess of a proportion of one adult for every 30 square feet of habitable floor space or superficial area and 400 cubic feet of clear and unobstructed internal air space; and it was made unlawful before the date of the grant of the Opium Farm.
12.
Ordinance No. 15 of 1894 was passed on 29th December 1894 and the Opium Farmer's Grant is dated 27th February 1895.
13. By section 9 of Ordinance 15 of 1894 a new section 67 is substituted for the old section 67 of the Public Health Ordinance 1887. That new section is as follows:
"Any domestic building and any part thereof found to be inhabited in excess of a proportion of one adult for every
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"30 square feet of habitable floor space or superficial area
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#cubic feet.of.clear and unobstructed air space."
6.
That is the sum and substance of their complaint.
The Fetitioners claim, apparently, a right to overcrowd
and seem to forget entirely the fact that.quite apart from Bye Lan
No. 3, the law of the Colony prohibits any such proceeding.
8. They set out in paragraph 18 of the Petition the extent
of overcrowding without apparently the slightest notion of the in-
-propriety of permitting.it.
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9. Then in paragraph they admit that:-"Some men do in fact
stay in the Divans all night,etc., etc.
10.
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But if so an Opium Divan becomes a Domestic Building
which by section 3.of the Fublic Health Ordinance is defined to be
"Any human habitation or building where persons pass the night."
11. Now it is unlawful to allow a domestic building.to.be
inhabited in excess of a proportion of one adult for every 30 square
feet of babitable floor space or superficial area and 400 cubic feet
of clear and unobstructed internal air space; and it was made un-
-lawful before the date of the grant of the Opiun .Farm.
12.
Ordinance No. 15.of 1994 was passed on 29th. December
1894 and the Opium Farmers Grant is dated 27th. February 1895.
13. By section 9 of Ordinance 15 of 1894 a new section 67
is substituted for the old section 67 of the Public Health Ordinance
1887. That new section is as follows
"Any domestic building and any part thereof found to be in-
"-babited in excess of a proportion of one adult for every
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"30 square feet of habitable floor space.or superficial are
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