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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MAY, 1891.

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30. If the consumer doubts the accuracy of the meter, which measures the water supplied to the tenement owned or occupied by him; then the meter will, on demand, be tested by the Water Autho- rity. The consumer, or any person appointed by him, may be present when the meter is tested. The results of the test will be binding, both on the Water Authority and on the consumer; and the quantity of water indicated by the meter, from the first reading of the quarter, as defined in section 27, shall be corrected according to the results of the test.

If the meter be found to indicate correctly or if it be found to indicate too little, then a fee of $10 shall be paid for testing.

If the meter be found to indicate too much then no fee shall be paid for testing.

31. Meters will be maintained by the Water Authority and all repairs except those caused wil- fully or negligently will be made by and at the cost of the Water Authority.

32. The value of the amount of water consumed during the quarter, as ascertained in accordance with sections 26, 27, 28, will be calculated at the rate of twenty cents per thousand gallons. From the sum thus obtained a deduction will be made, equal to 3 per cont. on the annual valuation of the tenement, as defined under the Rating Ordinance, and the balance, if any, shall be paid to the Govern- ment Treasury. Each quarter's account shall be final, and no surplus shall be carried forward from one quarter to the next.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

HONGKONG.

A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Council.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 233.

The following Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board on the 13th day of March, 1891, amended on the 2nd day of April, and approved of by the Legislative Council on the 22nd instant, are hereby published for general information.

By Command,

W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd May, 1891.

Bye-laws for licensing and regulating Common Lodging-Houses made under sub-section 12

of section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887 and sub-section D of section 1 of Ordinance No. 26 of 1890:

1. A Register of all common lodging-houses shall be kept by the Registrar General in the form of Schedule A appended to these bye-laws.

2. Before a house can be registered as a common lodging- house, an application must be made to the Registrar General in the form of the Schedule B hereunto appended, setting forth the situation of the house, the number of the rooms to be set apart for lodgers and the cubic capacity of each room so set apart, and for this purpose the schedule or form will be furnished by the Registrar General.

3. The Registrar General shall transmiteach application for the registration of a house as a common lodging-house to the Sanitary Board, and the Board shall then cause the house specified in such application to be inspected by one or more of its Officers who shall submit a report to the Board on the sanitary condition of such house, and its suitability for use as a common lodging-house.

4. Any house to be registered as a common lodging- house must be substantially built and in a good state of repair, the floors must be paved with tiles or cernent concrete or with lime concrete rendered with one inch of Port- land cement or boarded with planks close jointed, and all the rooms which are to be used as sleeping rooms must be on all sides above the level of the ground immediately surrounding the house. The house-drains must be in good order and constructed in accordance with the bye-laws re- gulating house drainage, there must be adequate kitchen, ablution, privy, urinal and ash-bin accommodation to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board; and unless when the supply of water is constant, there must be a proper cistern for the storage of water.

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