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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH JULY, 1894.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 264.

The following is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th July, 1894.

ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Made by the Governor in Council on the 2nd day of July, 1894, under the provisions of "The Licensing Consolidation

Ordinance, 1887," section 3.

1. All Public Vehicles shall, when disengaged or unemployed, stand ready for hire at such stands or places as the Captain Superintendent of Police shall from time to time by notice in the Gazette direct, and no drawer, driver, or bearer of a public vehicle shall loiter in the streets so as to cause obstruction, but when unemployed shall proceed forthwith to one of such stands or places, and range his vehicle at the rear of any vehicles (if any) already standing there.

2. Regulation No. 8 of the regulations made by the Governor in Council on the 19th day of November, 1891, under the provisions of section 3 of The Licensing Consolidation Ordinance, 1887, is hereby amended by adding after the figures and word "14 inch" the words following

"Or shall be of a different pattern, size or weight to that approved, or hereafter approved,

"by the Captain Superintendent of Police."

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

HONGKONG.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 265.

The following is published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th July, 1894.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

Made by the Governor in Council on the 2nd day of July, 1894, under the authority of Section 88 of "The Building Ordinance, 1889," for carrying out the provisions of section 36 of the said Ordinance in relation to encroachments of veran- dahs and balconies upon or over

Width of veran- dahs, &c., from

ground story of buildings.

Height of veran-

floor.

Crown land.

1. Except as hereinafter mentioned any verandah projected from the ground story of any building or any other structure over Crown land shall not be less than 7' 9′′ wide between the face of the wall from which it is projected and the inside face of the base of the piers upon which it is supported.

Within the area of any land reclaimed or to be reclaimed under the provisions of The Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889, any such verandah measured as aforesaid shall not be less than 8' 6' wide.

2. Any such verandah within the City of Victoria shall not be less than 12 feet dahs from ground high measured from the top of the curb-stone or if there is no curb-stone from the centre of the street level to the underside of the bressummers or lintels immediately above them, or if arches are used, to the soffit of the archways in the centre of the opening of the archway; any such verandah outside the City of Victoria shall not be less than 11 feet high measured as aforesaid.