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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3,

1909.

981

No. 766.

1

Bye-laws made under Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1903).

All bye-laws for the regulation of the Government Depôts for Cattle, Pigs, Sheep and Goats at Kennedy Town and Ma Tau Kok made under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, on the 27th March, 1903, and approved by the Legislative Council on the 20th April, 1903, and also the bye-laws made on the 27th October, 1908, and approved by the Legislative Council on the 3rd December, 1908, are hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor:

"1. The fee payable for each head of cattle housed in a Government Depôt shall be fifty cents when cattle so housed are removed to any place other than the Slaughter-house adjoining such Depôt or another Government Depôt, and the fee payable for each pig, sheep and goat similarly housed and removed shall be ten cents. No fee is payable on admission.

2. No cattle, pigs, sheep or goats shall be removed from a Government Depôt for any purpose except on a removal order signed by the Inspector in charge. Such order shall be granted on the production and deposit of the receipt given on the admission of the animals and in favour of the person therein named or of any other person on his order.

3. The Sanitary Department provides water only for the use of the cattle, pigs, sheep and goats housed in the Government Depôts. The owners of such animals must provide proper and sufficient food and must send men in sufficient numbers to look after, feed and water such animals, but no other unauthorised person may

be or remain on the premises during such hours

as the Depôts are closed to the public.

4. Neither the Government nor the Sanitary Board will be responsible for the safe custody of any cattle, pigs, sheep or goats housed in a Government Depôt.

5. The drenching of any animal with any substance whatever, or the administra- tion of salt in any form, in a Government Depôt, except with the permission of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon or of the Inspector on duty, is prohibited."

Made by the Sanitary Board this 23rd day of November, 1909.

W. BOWEN-ROWLANDS,

Secretary.

Approved by the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 2nd day of December, 1909.

A.

No. 767.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils,

Bye-laws made under Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1903).

Nos. 6, 10 and 11 of the Cemetery Bye-laws made under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, on the 13th October, 1908, and approved by the Legislative Council on the 3rd December, 1908, are hereby repealed and the following substituted there-

for

"6. The interspace between any two coffins (except when buried in a single grave under bye-law 5) at any point shall be at least 18 inches.

10.-(1.) The fees to be charged in the Colonial Cemetery shall be as

follows:-

For each grave space of 15 superficial feet,

Grave digging,

Exhumation of Corpse,

$10.00

1.00 5.00