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1168 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26г NOVEMBER, 189%.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 531.

The following Resolution is published.

By Command,

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd November, 1898.

RESOLUTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

That the percentages on the valuation of tenements in Hok-ün and Kwo-lo-wan (the latter now known as Kowloon Marine Lot 40) at present payable as rates under the Rating Ordinance of 1888, as amended by Ordinance No. 5 of 1892, be altered from 7 per cent, to 9 per cent.

Passed by the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 22nd day of November, 1898. COUNCIL CHAMBER,

J. G. T. BUCKLE, HONGKONG.

Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 532.

The following Bye-laws, made by the Sanitary Board under sub-section 18 of section 13 of Ordi- nance No. 24 of 1887, as amended by Ordinance No. 12 of 1891, and approved of by the Legislative Council, are published.

By Command,

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

and

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd November, 1898.

BYE-LAWS

Made under sub-section 18 of section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887, as amended by Ordinance No. 12 of 1891, for the regulation

and sanitary maintenance of cemeteries.

A

Cemeteries other than Public Chinese Cemeteries.

1. Every cemetery shall be at all times open to inspection by members of the Sanitary Board any of its officers who may be directed to make such inspections.

2. Each grave shall bear a number.

3. A register shall be kept by the person or persons in charge of each cemetery, at or near each cemetery and the date of burial, name, sex, age and registered cause of death of each person shall be entered therein against the number of the grave in which the corpse is interred; such register shall be open to inspection by any member of the Sanitary Board, or by any officer of the Board who may be directed to make such inspection, at any reasonable hour.

4. Each grave shall be dug to at least a depth of seven feet throughout.

5. Except as regards the corpses of children under five years of age, only one corpse shall be placed in one grave. In the case of the corpses of children under five years of age two corpses may be placed in one grave.

6. The interspace between any two graves at any point shall be at least 18 inches.

7. Each grave on being filled in shall be properly covered with turf or chunam or such other material as may be approved of by the Board.

8. No grave may be re-opened after a corpse has been interred therein, without the written per- mission of the Medical Officer of Health or other officer duly appointed by the Board for that purpose. 9. The person in charge of each cemetery shall give not less than two hours notice to the Overseer, or other officer of the Board duly appointed for the purpose, of intention to inter a corpse and the hour at which it is proposed that such interment shall take place.

B

Public Chinese Cemeteries.

1. Each cemetery shall be laid out in sections of such size and arranged in such manner as may be directed by the Board.

2. A plan of the cemetery or a tracing thereof as laid out shall be on view at or near to the cemetery and the offices of the Board.