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HONGKONG ORDINANCES.

of the external Walls of the said frst and last Blouses respectively.

5. Supports of floors and roofs.-The fluors anil roofs of houses or verandahs shall in all cases abut upon and rest against at least nine inches of solid brick or stone work, as the cast may be.

reconstruction) to complete any House without M sufficient and anfe Place for lighting of fires and cooking of Fuod ; and also a sufficient Water-clauset or Privy, and a suff ient Ashpit furnished with proper Doors and Coveringe; all which ball be provided to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General, III. Four Days” Notice tobe given before commere. aud from time to time emptied and cleansed, at ing or (in the case of works suspended for above three such periods as the Surveyor General may direct: months) resuming works. — Penalty for every drauft and every Person odluding against any of the enact. Except in case of inevitable necessity. In which, wants in this Section contained shall for every such case notice to be given within Two Days after com- offence forfeit and pay to the Crown a penalty mencing or resuming the works—It shail not be Dot exceeding Fifty Dollars nor less than Ten lawful for any person to commence or (in the case! Dolars.

of any works, the progress whereof shall bave heen

IX. The Surveyor General shall require the owne for a period exceeding three months suspended) to or occupier of any House to make govt all deñcien- resume any works, until four days' written notice cies in works of that kind and cause them to be made of the intention to commence or resume the same good.-The Surveyor tieneral shall in case any aball have been given unto the Surveyor General House, whether now existing or hereafter to be at bis Office by the person by or for whom such, constructed or reconstructed, shall not be provided works are intended to be commenced or resumed, or shall be imperfectly provided with any of the aud every such notice thall specify the material works in the last immediately preceding section particulars of the said intended Works; and any specified, or with one or more proper drain or draing person commencing or resuming any worke without to the said House of at least six inches in diameter, having first given such notice as aforesaid to the give written notice of every such dei.ciency to the Surveyor General, or before the expiration of four owner or occupier of the said House, thereby requir days from the rising thereof, shail for every such ing him to provide for and make good the said default forfeit and pay to Her Majesty a sum not deficiency forthwith, or within some specified and exceeding Fitty Dollars nor tera thần Ten Dollars; reasonable term, to the satisfaction of the Surveyur except where any inevitable accident or emergency! General; and in case the said owner or occupier shall bave occurred to make it necessary to com- shall not obey or comply with the add require. mence or resume any works inmediately, in which ment, the maid Surveyor General shall cause the case only it shall be lawful to commence or resume said works to be executed, and may recover the the same, yet so as that written notice thereof and of the material particulars of such works shall within Two Days after commencing or resuming the same be given by the person by or for whom the same were so commenced or resumed unto the said Surveyor General at his Office aforesaid, IV. Works to be liable in certain cases to be abated as a Nuisance. In cases where any penalty shall have been incurred under the provisions of the Section next immediately preceding, or where the Surveyor General shall be refused admit:ance to any tenement for the purpose of surveying or inspecting any works thereon or therein commenced, resumed, or in progress, the said works shall be liable to be abated as a Nuisance.

V. Contracts to be made or executed to the contrary of this Ordinance.—All contracts hereafter to be made for works contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance shall be nuil and void, and it shall not be lawful to execute in contravention of the said Provisions any contracts heretofore made for works and in force at the passing of this Ordinance, unless the same have heretofore received the sanction of the Surveyor General.

charges and expenses thereof, together with hig costs of procedure, by summary application to a Stipendiary Magistrate, or any two Justices, who shall, in case of default in payment thereof, levy the amount so recovered by warrant of distress and sale upon the goods and chattels of Buch owner or occupier, without prejudice to the right of either party to recover over, retain, or deduct against the other the amount so paid or recovered,

X. Public and common privies, sewage places, &c., may be provided.-The Surveyor General may pro- vide and maintain in proper and suitable situations common Water-closets, Privies, Urinals, and other like conveniencies for public accommodation; und also proper Buildinga, Pita, Places, Boxes or other conveniencies for the temporary reception_and collection of Sewage, Dung, Soil, Filch, Dust, Ashes, and Rubbish, yet so as not to occasion annoyance or nuisance; and all such mattera so received or collected therein shall be vested in and may be disposed of at the discretion of and by the Surveyor General; and all the proceeds (if any) of such as aball in any wise be so disposed of shail be paid into the Colonial Treasury on account of the Crown.

XI. Works contravening this Ordinance to be deemed a Nuisance.—Every work whatsoever here- after to be commenced, resumed, prosecuted, or finished in contravention of this Ordinance shall be deemed a Nuisance.

VI. Double Police Rates to be paid for Buildings illegally constructed, dc., until' abatement-Over and above all other penalties and liabilities by this Ordinance imposed, the owner of every Building constructed, reconstructed, or altered in contraven tion of this Ordinance shall pay in respect of the

XII. Ruinous Buildings to be deemed Nuisances. Bame a periodical Police Rate of double the amount to which, but for such contravention he would live )—Every Building, or Part of a Building, being in a ruinous or dangerous condition, shall be deemed been liable in respect of the said Building, jet so as that if the same shall be abat-d, diminished, or a Nuisance. removed under the provisions of this Ordinance, the said owner shall cease to be liable to pay any such Police Rate in respect thereof.

XIII. Buildings erected of inflammable Materials to be deemed Nuisances.- Every Building erected or to be hereafter erecte. of any inflammable VII. Saving of Crown remedies.-No remedies material, in such wise as to endanger any neighbour- for breaches of contract committed by Crown lesseesing Building, shall be deemed a Nuisance. or others now vested in the Crown or its officers shall be prejudied by this Ordinance.

VIII. Every House to hure a Cooking Place and Privy.-It shall not be lawful to construct, recon- struct, or (if now in the course of construction or

XIV. Deposits or accumulations of decaying

| matter, &c, to be deemed Nuisances.—Every deposit or accumulation of decaying, noisome, noxious, or offensive inatter, in, on, or under auf tenement, Crown land, or way, or water, or drain, or sewer,

whereby the henith of the Q2 avin's Subjects runy le endangered, shall be d-erned a Xunanice.

Muchout Shopping by Tie Lier 1851," un ! •• Thi Chinis Pargers Art (855, XV. Projectrune form Phobhays to be deemed the Power to amend the suit Acts in their applica. Nataract. - Every projection from ur over any tiến từ thu tha, my i», under certain Combitions, Bai ding which elali causs Lubedalice or obstruč, réserve a pu this Legislature, and it is desirable to tion to ăng way or to the Passengers thereon, and exeresse the i nereal Power in mtner heremafter 1 Jeti and orisard be is every ener, achine:: 181, over, or under any way or appentag: Be am ( own latoi sha!: la dread a Numarce.

Excelency The Giaver; & of ihmebeng, with the XVI. Nuisances by the Law Engfanal shall be Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, an decided Ngomery kan.—1,very Work with would folowy:— bu dertue, a Nuteluce in 1ngland if begati, con- ducted, en completed there, shall within tuis Colony be mad Nuisance,

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Resident

1. Cl-ntre Resily-t• most ose the Brutal Fing -ine Beinen Flag in columelly ngobra! may be lawfully used by any. Ca time XVII. Summary proceding in cases of Naine within the meaning of Ur dative No. 4 of 1833, -The Surveyor General suull summon very person on board of any Slip or Vose registered in this guilty of any of the Nuisances hereinbetore enume. Colony in the name of the Band Resi ut under the rated before a Stipendiary Magistrate, or any two. Orduance aforesaid.

Justices of the Peace, who shall thereupon proceed II. Colonial Bogi ters, d'c., may be procd by in a sulumary way to enquire into surd adjudicate, production of try singls or Capis —Every Re- upon the premises after the manur of other suw- gister, Certificate. "Endorsement. Declaration, or nary proceedings before Justices of the Peace; Bond authored or required by the said Ordin -nice, and where he or they sbah adjudicate any one may be proud in any Court c; Justice, or before person to have been guilty of any of the said Notes any person having by law or by cd sent of parties auces, he or they or any other Justice of the Peace authority to recive Exileuse, enter by the pro- shall, upon the application of the Surv. yor General, duction of the Original, or by an examined Copy order hun or any other proper officer to abate, thereof, or by a Copy there! purporting to be demolish, or renove the said Suisauce, and to se.i .ertified under the it do 5. Pahal sign tary audi dhe ose of the Materials thereof (if any), and or other person who for the time being chall out of the monies arising by such sale or disposition upped to have charge of the Original," which (if any) to retain or pay the charges and expense certibed Copy & is reby required to furnish to of or incident to such abatement, demolition, or every pere n'appdying at a reasonable time for the removal. Aud the said Magistrate, Justices, or same, and paying therefor the sum of Une Dollar Justice shall ord r and compel ail Persons who shall for every such certified Copy; and every Docu- have been found guilty of any such Numatice, after ment, when so proved as aforesaid, shall be received such adjudication as aforesaid, to Batisty ali charges as prima facie Eridance of all the matters therein and expenses of or incident to the abatement, de- recited, stated, or appearing.

molition, or removal theren!, and fur which no HII. Bekastion et u lugaye of more than Seven other or no sufficient satisfaction is hereby provided; Dogs" daraten. -Any Chinese Passenger "hip clear- and shall thereupon, by warrant under his or their ing out or proceeding to sea from any Port in this Band and Seal, or Handa aud Seals, cause the same! Colony, or iu China, or within a Hundred Miles of to be levied by di-tress and sale of the goods and the Coast thereof, on any Voyages or Voyager to chattels of the said persons respectively in case of any other Port or Ports, for the purpose of com- default in payment.

|u meing at or from any such, Port or Ports as last XVIII. House property to be liable for deficiency foresaid a Voyage of more than Seven Dags" of distress.—In the event of the insufficiency of duration, shall be deemed to have cleared out or any distress to be made under this Ordinance, the proceeded 10 sea upon the said lust-mentioned house of the defauiter shall be subject and liable Voyage from the said first-mentioned Port within to defray the deficiency; and a Stipendiary Magis the meaning of the Chinese Passengers' Act trate or Justice of the Peace, upoù the application|| 1855."

of the Surveyor General, shall by warrant authorize

[2πì May, 1856.]

No. 10.

and direct a proper offic.r to seize and take po des¦ An Ordinance for Lia Pendons and Purchasers— sion of the said houer, and to hold the same until such deficiency shall be defrayed, and ail the accru- ing rents and profits of the said house shall be applied by the said Magistrate or Justice in pay. ment of the said deficiency.

No. 11.

Au Ordiuatice for Lighting the City of Victoria.-- [12tis June, 1856.]

Preambli,- Wherea- it is desirable that a system XIX. Tanks, Reservoirs, and Building Materials, -The Surveyor General and his Officers are; of Puble Lighting stonkl be introduced into this authorised to seize any Utensil, which he or they City: B is enacted and ordained by His Ex- shall detect any person in the act dipping into any ellenes The Governor of Hougkong, with the Public Tauk or Reservoir; and also all building Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as materials found by him or them deposited or lying follows:-

upon any public Road, or in the side channels I The Lighting Kate.—For detraying the Ex- thereof; and all Utensils or Materials so seized 'penses of ..nd meident to the execution of this may be lawfully confiscated by the Surveyor Ordinance, there shall be levied Quarterly, together with and in addition to the Puice Rate or Rates General, and disposed of as he shall direct.

XX. Saving of existing remedies.—All existing for the your, a further Rate to be called - The remedies for the prevention or abatement of Nus-Lig ting Rate," and estimated at One and a Half ances and the punishment of those guilty thereof per Cens on the cross amount of the Property shail coutinue to be in force notwithstanding this inclu ́ed in the Polies Raze Assessment for the Ordinance.

No. 9.

current year; and all the Provisions of the Or dinalers No. 2 of 18:5 und No. 3 of 1851, wnching

An Ordinance to explain certain Enactments re- Vatuion. Asse-ni-ut, Levy, und Appeal, shall extend and apply tot le said “Lighting Rate. “ lating to Shipping.—(29th May, 1836. }

Sericoniction-ral to provide anú f. Preamble,-Reckles The Merchant Shipping 17:

Act 1854," and The Chinese Passengers Act, Lampo, do, and the Superintendent of Pula, to bi-p