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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH JUNE, 1891.

3. It shall be lawful for the Board to make and when made to alter or revoke Bye-Laws with regard to the proper construction, materials and fittings of water closets on pri- vate premises.

4. In lieu of the said sub-section shall be inserted and substituted the words following, that is to say:-

The disposal of the dead, the regulation and sanitary maintenance of cemeteries, the fees to be charged in respect of graves and interments, the keeping of such Registers as may be necessary and all other matters connected therewith; also for the regula- tion and sanitary maintenance of mortuaries and the disinfection of dead bodies.

5. This Ordinance shall be read and construed as one with Ordinance No. 24 of 1887.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 19th day of June, 1891.

Alteration of water closet Bye-laws.

Sub-section substituted for Section 13 2.5. 18.

Construction.

A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 24th day of June, 1891..

W. M. GOODMAN, Acting Colonial Secretary,

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 283,

The following Notifications are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th June, 1891.

W. M. GOODMAN, Acting Colonial Secretary.

NOTIFICATION.

The Undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan, hereby makes known for the information of British Subjects resident in, or resorting to, Japan, that he has received a Note from His Excellency the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs stating that the Regulations for the Inspection of Vessels, issued by the Imperial Japanese Government on the 23rd June, 1882, will be put in force from the 7th of June at the Port of Nagasaki in the case of all Vessels arriving, either directly or otherwise, from the Port of Bangkok, in Siam, or Malacca, places infected with Cholera.

H.B.M.'s Legation, Tokyo, June 8th, 1891.

NOTIFICATION.

HUGH FRASER.

With reference to the Notification issued on the Eighth June, 1891, calling the attention of British Subjects to the enforcement by the Japanese Government at the Port of Nagasaki of the Regulations for the Inspection of Vessels arriving from Bangkok and Malacca, the Undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan, hereby further makes known for the information of British Subjects resident in, or resorting to, Japan, that so long as these Regulations continue to be in operation in the Port of Nagasaki, and hereafter in any other of the Open Ports of Japan, where the Regulations in question may be enforced by the Japanese Government, all British Vessels will, irrespective of the ports of departure or call, on their arrival be visited by Health Officers, and should Cases of Cholera have occurred on board during the Voyage such vessels will be dealt with in the same manner as if they had sailed from or called at ports declared to be infected with Cholera.

H.B.M.'s Legation, Tokyo, June 15th, 1891.

HUGH FRASER.