Conservancy boats.
Conveyance of excretal matter re- stricted to times between
midnight
and 6 a.m.
Precautions
excretal matter.
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mental service be provided, then to the Council, for the removal of the excretal matter from the latrine to Kwai Chung Bay at the rate of ten cents per picul of nightsoil (tai fo) and five cents per picul of urine (shui fo):
Provided that it shall be lawful for the Council, when a departmental service is provided, to compound for a fixed monthly charge for such removal.
(c) The occupier of every such latrine shall make due provision for the reception of such excretal matter at the conservancy boats' anchorage in Kwai Chung Bay.
(d) No excretal matter shall be removed from any such latrine except by the conservancy contractor for that district or by servants of the Sanitary Department,
6.—(a) All conservancy boats, that is to say, all vessels used for the conveyance of excretal matter whether in the employ of the contractors or privately owned, shall be registered annually at the offices of the Council and no vessel not so registered shall convey excretal matter.
(b) All such boats shall be completely decked and provided with closely fitting hatches and shall at all times be kept in a thorough state of repair and in a seaworthy and cleanly condition to the satis- faction of the Council.
(c) The decks of every such boat shall be washed down immedia- tely after the transhipment of any excretal matter.
(d) No such boat shall be loaded above the under side of the hatch coaming.
(e) No such boat shall enter the waters of the Colony except with its holds clean and its bilges pumped dry.
(f) Every such boat shall fly such distinguishing flag as shall from time to time be directed by the Council.
(g) No such boat shall, unless otherwise provided by the terms of the contracts for the time being in force, anchor or lie at any place within the waters of the Colony other than the conservancy boats' anchorage in Kwai Chung Bay.
7.—(1) No excretal matter shall be placed in or upon or conveyed along or across any street or open space situated within any of the districts specified in by-law 2 except between midnight and 6 a.m. and except in strong substantial buckets with closely fitting covers and of such a pattern as may from time to time be approved by the Council.
(2) Any person who conveys or causes to be conveyed along any in conveying street any excretal matter at any time except within the hours fixed by paragraph (1) of this by-law, or who at any time, whether within such hours or not, uses for any such purpose any cart, carriage or other receptacle or vessel not having a covering proper for preventing the escape of the contents thereof or of the stench therefrom, or who slops or spills any such excretal matter in the conveying thereof, or who does not carefully sweep and clean every place in which any excrctal matter has been slopped or spilt, or who places or sets down in any public place any vessel containing such excretal matter, or who drives or takes or causes to be driven or taken any cart, carriage, receptacle or vessel used for any such purpose as aforesaid through any street or route other than such as shall from time to time be appointed for the purpose by the Council by public notice, shall be liable for a first offence to a fine not exceeding ten dollars and for a second and subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
Excretal
matter not to be deposited elsewhere
than in
the con- servancy boats.
8.-(a) No excretal matter shall be emptied, discharged, deposited or placed in, or conveyed to, over or upon, any gully, drain, sewer or any inlet thereto.
(b) No excretal matter removed from any premises situated within the districts specified in by-law 2 shall be emptied, discharged, deposited or placed in or conveyed to any place other than the conservancy boats provided for that purpose.
(c) No excretal matter shall be brought from any premises or place situated outside the districts specified in by-law 2 to any premises or place situated within the said districts.
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