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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH MARCH, 1899.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 144.

The following Regulations, made by the Governor-in-Council under section 23 of Ordinance 16 of 1890 and section 5 of Ordinance 6 of 1895, are published for general information; and the previous Regulations published under Government Notification No. 321 of the 17th July, 1895, are hereby repealed by the Governor-in-Council, except as regards anything lawfully done or suffered or any liabi lities incurred thereunder.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th March, 1899.

REGULATIONS

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

Made by the Governor-in-Council, under authority of Section 23 of Ordinance 16 of 1890 and Section 5 of Ordinance

No. 6 of 1895, this 10th day of March, 1899.

1. Water will be supplied in bulk and measured by means of a meter to the following buildings

or tenements

(i) Those in which the water supply or any portion of it is utilized for any purpose of trade. (ii) Those having within their curtilage a Fountain, Garden supply, Hydrant, Stable, Cow-

shed, Piggery, or other annex of a similar nature.

(iii) Hotels, Restaurants, Lodging Houses, or Clubs.

(iv) Piers and Wharves.

(v) Police Stations, Gaols, Markets, Slaughter Houses, Cattle Depôts and all Imperial,

Colonial, Military or Naval Establishments.

(vi) All premises situated within the City of Victoria in which the consumption exceeds the

prescribed domestic limit.

(vii) All premises situated outside the City of Victoria.

(viii) All premises exempted from rates on account of any cause whatever.

2. The price of water supplied in bulk will be, until further notice, at the rate of twenty-five cents (25c.) per one thousand (1,000) gallons. In cases where unfiltered water is supplied half the above rates will be charged.

3. All water drawn from the water works into any ship, water-boat, steamer, or steam-launch, or supplied to any wharf or pier, shall be charged for at the rate of twenty-five cents (25c.) per one thousand (1,000) gallons.

4. Water shall only be taken from a public fountain in buckets or other suitable receptacles, and in such a manner as to prevent its flow into any drain or side channel.

5. No hose pipe, pipe, tube, shoot, or other contrivance of any nature whatsoever shall be attached, either temporarily or permanently, to any public fountain.

6. No automatic self-closing valve or other automatic appliance attached to or forming a part of any public fountain shall be interfered with so as to prevent, either permanently or temporarily, its

automatic action.

7. The following rent shall be paid into the Treasury, quarterly and in advance, for the use of meters for one quarter or any part of a quarter; such quarter shall be considered to commence on the first day of January, the first day of April, the first day of July and the first day of October :-

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No rent for the use of meters shall be charged in respect of water supplied to premises except in such cases as the buildings or premises are of the character mentioned in regulation 1, sub-sections (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi).

The Water Authority reserves the right to prescribe the size of meter which shall be fixed for measuring the supply to any premises.

8. Meters will be read at such times as the Water Authority may direct, not less frequently than three times a quarter. Whenever a meter is read a memorandum of the reading will be left with the occupier of the tenement supplied through it.