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Attorney General's Office.

August 4th.,

,1898.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE NO.11 OF 1898.

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I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, en-

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An Ordinance to further amend The Building

Ordinance, 1889.'

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not

contrary to the Governor's Instructions.

In Mr. CHADWICK's Report of 8th July, 1800, be pointed out the defects in section 74 of Ordinance 15 of 1889. The matter was considered in Executive Council and, eventual- ly, Government Notification, No. 369 of 1890, was publish- ed in the Gazette of 6th September, 1890, intimating that, in future, no permits under section 74, would be granted to the public for connecting house-drains with the Govern ment sewers and that such connections would be made, in accordance with the regulations, on receipt of an applica- tion addressed to the Resident Engineer. One defect in the Ordinance being thus, for practical purposes, remedied, the proper course would have been to have amended the Building Ordinance, 1889, so as to make it in conformity with the new system. Apparently, however, the necessity of this was, at the time, overlooked and section 74 has, accordingly, now been amended in the spirit of Mr. CHAD- WICK'S recommendation.

W. MEIGH GOODMAN, Attorney General.