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920 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1898.

BYE-LAWS

Made under sub-section 23 of section 13 of Ordinance 24 of 1897 for the regulation of Public Laundries.

1. Every public laundry shall be registered at the Office of the Sanitary Board, and every appli- cation for registration shall be made in the form of the schedule attached to these bye-laws.

2. Every public laundry shall be situated in a building which is lighted, ventilate 1, drained and paved in accordance with the requirements of Ordinances 24 of 1887 and 15 of 1894 and the bye-laws made thereunder.

3. Every public laundry shall be at all times kept in a cleanly condition and the inside surfaces of the walls thereof shall be lime-washed at least once every year.

4. No persons, other than two caretakers, may occupy any buil ling or part of a building which is registered as a public laundry, between the hours of 11 pan. and 5 a.m., unless such persons are actively engaged in carrying on the work of the laundry.

5. Every public laundry shall be at all times open to inspection by the Members of the Sanitary Board or any of its Officers, who may be directed to make such inspections.

Made by the Sanitary Board, this 25th day of August, 1898.

Approved by the Legislative Council, this 12th day of September, 1898.

FRANCIS W. CLARK,

Acting Secretary.

J. G. T. BuCKLE, Clerk of Councils.

SCHEDULE.

I, the undersigned, hereby notify the Sanitary Board that I propose to carry on the business of a publie laundry on the premises known as No.

Street,

floor, and request that the said premises be duly registered as a

public laundry.

Victoria, Hongkong,

189

Signature of Applicant.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 404.

Government Notification No. 341 of 1898 and the Regulations therein contained were cancelled by the Governor in Council on 16th September, 1898, and it was ordered that the Regulations pre- viously in force shall so continue till 1st January, 1899.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th September, 1898.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 405.

Whereas, by Ordinance No. 15 of 1889, section 68, as amended by Ordinance No. 25 of 1891, it is enacted as follows:

"Except in the case of such piers and wharves as are specially provided for by Ordinance, it shall not be lawful for any person to construct or reconstruct any iron, timber, or stone pier or wharf projected over any foreshore the property of the Crown, without the previous sanction and authority of the Governor, and unless such person shall have previously signed an undertaking according to the form contained in Schedule D to Ordinance No. 15 of 1889; and in cases of reconstruction such undertaking shall supersed: any other undertaking which may have been previously signed in respect of such pier or wharf, at the time of its original

erection.