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seem that the only practicable course will be to accept the classification of the Education Department as decisive on the point as to whether any particular school is verna- cular or not. This solution is adopted in paragraph (4) of the new section 8 (4).

10. One class of persons is in this Ordinance omitted from the list of persons entitled to registration in the second part of the register, i e., " salaried functionaries of foreign Governments not carrying on business". It is obvious that such functionaries should be excluded from liability to jury service, but it is thought that they would not desire to be included in the Sanitary Board electorate.

11. A new sub-section is added to section 8 of the

principal Ordinance. This sub-section makes personation at Sanitary Board elections an offence, and it also makes it an offence for any person to procure his registration on the second part of the register by means of any false representation. The penalty provided is a fine not exceed- ing $500 or imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months or both fine and imprisonment. In England personation at parliamentary or municipal elections is a felony punishable by imprisonment for any term Hot exceeding two years with hard labour; see 35 and 36 Viet. C. Động 24

12. The rules for Sanitary Board elections contained in Sebedule C to the principal Ordinauce are being revised. A draft Order in Council is published with this draft Ordinance.

13. Reinforced concrete construction has been developed largely since the passing of the principal Ordinance. The second object of this Ordinance is to deal with that method of construction and with its relation to the questions of public safety and public health.

14. Section 3 of this Ordinance makes a few minor alterations in paragraph (8) of section 6 of the principal Ordinance. Some of these alterations ara madle for the sake of greater uniformity with the new definition of exceptional building which is referred to in the following par-graph.

15. Section 4 of this Ordmarice amends the definition of exceptional building in paragraph (25) of section 6 of the principal Ordinance The principal change in the definition is that buildings made wholly or partly of rein- forced concrete are specifically referred to. They are included in the present definition under the words " every building of glass, iron or other material not provided for in this Ordinance", but it seems desirable to refer ex- pressly to this particular form of construction which has come into prominence in recent years. It is also provided in the new definition that the term exceptional building shall include every part of every building which is an exceptional building within the meaning of the first part of the definition.

16. Sections 97 and 98 of the principal Ordinance are unsatisfactory. In the first place section 97 gives the Building Authority a wide discretion with regard to every exceptional building, while gives him discretion with regard to a particular class of exceptional building. Again section 97 seems to consider ouly the question of the safety of the public, though it is obvious that the safety of a building might be of little importance to the public at large but of great importance to the persons using the building, eg., the employees in a factory. Accordingly, section 7 of this Ordinance substitutes for section 97 of the principal Ordinance a section which gives the Building Authority discretion in the approval of the design, con- struction and situation of every execptional building, The reference to situation is meant, for instance, to give the Building Authority power to refuse to allow a highly inflammable building to be erected in dangerous proximity to other buildings,

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