THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND FEBRUARY, 1895.
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Mortality Returns.--The returns for the weeks ended the 5th and 12th January, 1895-which had been circulated to members--were laid on the table and a minute on the circulating cover of one of them read.
Licenses.--Forty-four applications for renewal of licenses to keep cattle and swine, and twenty-eight applications for new licenses to keep swine were considered.
The Vice-President moved-
That the licenses applied for be issued,
The Honourable Director of Public Works seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Closed Houses.-The Vice-President addressed the Board on the subject of the desirability of inspecting the drains of the houses that had been closed by the Board during the prevalence of Bubonic Plague.
It was agreed that the Assistant Surveyor should proceed with the inspection of the drains of the houses mentioned by the Vice-President and report in the usual manner.
Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned till Thursday, the 31st day of January, 1895.
Read and confirmed this 31st day of January, 1895.
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Secretary.
F. H. MAY,
Vice-President.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.- No. 39.
Tenders will be received at this Office until noon of Monday, the 11th of February, for the construction of Middle Road, Kowloon.
Work will not be permitted under this contract on Sundays.
For form of tender apply at this Office.
For specification and further particulars apply at the Office of the Director of Public Works. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd February, 1895.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 40.
Tenders will be received at this Office until noon of Monday, the 11th of February, for the laying
of an 18′′ stoneware pipe storm-water drain in MacDonnell Road, Kowloon.
Work will not be permitted under this contract on Sundays.
For form of tender apply at this Office.
For specification and further particulars apply at the Office of the Director of Public Works. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd February, 1895.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 41.
Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Tuesday, the 12th day of February, 1895, for the construction of 1,000 Concrete Blocks, &c., for base of Sea Wall, Landing Piers, Landing Steps, &c., under Praya Reclamation Ordinance of 1889.
No work will be permitted under this contract on Sundays.
For form of tender, specification, and further particulars apply at the Praya Reclamation Office. No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $200 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown if such person refuses to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd February, 1895.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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