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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH APRIL, 1890.

Mr. HUMPHREYS said that Mr. CHADWICK'S report having been placed before the Board it is understood the Govern- ment desires an expression of opinion thereon and he therefore moved,-

1. That the Government be requested to give full effect to the recommendation of the Commission appointed to enquire into the cause of fever in the Western District, and of Mr. Chadwick by proceeding at once with sub-soil drainage,

2. That the Government be advised to take no step in the direction of stopping earth-cutting in the Colony during

any portion of the year.

Mr. FRANCIS seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Lodging House Bye-Laws.-The report of the Committee considering the Honourable Acting Attorney General's remarks on the bye-laws made by the Board and which had becu transmitted to the Colonial Secretary for confirmation in the usual manner was considered.

Mr. FRANCIS moved,--

That the Board, feeling doubtful whether they have power to puss the amended bye-laws in the present form, move the Government to pass a short Ordinance providing that the Registrar General issue no licence for a common lodging house until the building has been approved by the Sanitary Board and empowering the Board to make bye-laws for the sanitary regulation as well as the maintenance of such houses.

Mr. EDE seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Public Laundries.—A preliminary report by the Committee considering this question-a copy of which had been sent to each Member-was considered.

Mr. FRANCIs moved,-

That the report be accepted and transmitted to Government,

The Honourable OSBERT CHADWICK Seconded.

Question--put and passed.

Nuisance.-Mr. FRANCIS addressed the Board regarding a communication which had been made to him by a resident at Kanlung Point, asserting that a letter he had addressed to the Board's Secretary on the subject of a nuisance arising through the defective drainage of his residence had not, to his knowledge, received any attention.

The President replied.

Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned till Friday, the 4th day of April, 1890.

Read and coulirned this 11th day of April, 1890.

HUGH MCCALLUM,

Secretary.

S. BROWN, President.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 159.

It is hereby notified that Her Majesty has not been advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinances:-

Ordinance No. 33 of 1889.--An Ordinance to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Two hundred and Ninety-five thousand and Eighty- seren Dollars and Ninety-nine Cents to defray the Charges of the Year 1888.

Ordinance No. 1 of 1890.--An Ordinance to appoint an additional member on the Sanitary

Board.

By Command,

W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong. 19th April, 1890.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 160.

His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to apoint, provisionally, Mr. THOMAS HOWELL, to be Bailiff of the Supreme Court vice Mr. T. R. McBEAN, deceased.

By Command,

W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th April, 1890.

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