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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH NOVEMBER, 1891. 1017

BILL ENTITLED "THE MERCHANT SHIPPING CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE, 1891."-Consideration of the Bill was postponed till next meeting.

ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned till Wednesday, the 4th November, at 3 P.M.

Read and confirmed, this 9th day of November, 1891.

A. M. THOMSON,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

G. DIGBY BARKER,

Officer Administering the Government.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 453.

The following Bill, which will be read at an early date in the Legislative Council, is published.

By Command,

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 14th November, 1891.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend The Building Ordinance 1889.

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

Be advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,

as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Building (Amendment) Ordinance, 189 and shall be con- strued and read as one with The Building Ordinance, 1889, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.

2. Any building already commenced in accordance with the principal Ordinance may be completed in accordance with such principal Ordinance or with such principal Ordi- nance as hereby amended.

3. In section 7 of the principal Ordinance the definition 9 "Public building" shall be deemed to include any building used as a Hotel or Club.

4. The provisions of section 9 of the principal Ordinance shall apply to any warehouse of upwards of 50 feet in height. 5. Sections 10 to 14 inclusive of the principal Ordinance are hereby repealed but such repeal shall not affect any thing done or suffered thereunder and the following sec- tions are hereby substituted therefor.

Walls.

"10. Every wall constructed of brick, stone, or other hard and incombustible substance, shall be solid across its entire thickness, and shall be properly bonded and substantially put together with good lime-mortar or cement-mortar, and except where specially permitted in this Ordinance, no part of such wall shall be thicker than any part underneath it, and all cross-walls and return-walls shall be properly bonded into main-walls. Sound black bricks may be exclusively used in the walls of the two uppermost stories of a building but not in the walls of the other stories without the approval of the Surveyor General.

"11. Every person who shall erect a new building shall construct every external and every party wall of such building in accordance with the following rules and in every case the thickness prescribed shall be the minimum thickness of which such wall may be constructed.

(a.) Where the wall does not exceed 12 feet in height

it shall be 9 inches thick for its whole height. (b.) Where a wall exceeds 12 feet in height but does not exceed 40 feet in height it shall be 134 inches thick for its whole height.

(c.) Where a wall exceeds 40 feet in height but does not exceed 60 feet in height the two lowermost stories shall be 18 inches thick and the remain- der 13 inches thick.

(d.) Where a wall exceeds 60 feet in height but does not exceed 70 feet in height the lowermost story shall be 22 inches thick the next two stories above shall be 18 inches thick and the remain- der 134 inches thick.

A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

Title.

Short title.

Completion. Buildings commenced under No. 15 of 1989.

Repeal.

Wall

External and party well- thickness of