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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD MAY, 1890.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 176.

His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has given his assent. in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council :—

Ordinance No. 4 of 1890.--An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.

By Command,

W. M. DEANE,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd May, 1890.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 4 OF 1890.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.

LS

F. FLEMING.

Officer Administering the Government,

[3rd May, 1890.]

Repeal of secs.

27 and 28 of No 24 of 1887.

Closing of

Cemeteries.

Authorised Cemeteries. Penalty for burials else- where.

BE

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. Sections 27 and 28 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, are hereby repealed.

2. The Governor in Council is authorised, from time to time, to notify by advertisement in the Hongkong Govern- ment Gazette, that any cemetery or burial ground shall, from a time in such Notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accordingly; and whosoever, after the expiration of the said specified time, shall bury any corpse in the said cemetery or burial ground shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.

3. The cemeteries or burial grounds in the Schedule hereto and such other cemeteries or burial grounds as may from time to time be authorised by the Governor, notice whereof shall be published in the Gazette shall be deemed authorised cemeteries and whosoever shall bury any corpse or coffin in any ground not being an authorised cemetery shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars to be recovered in a sum- mary manner before a Magistrate at the suit of the Secre- tary of the Sanitary Board in the same way as penalties imposed under The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.

SCHEDULE.

The Colonial Cemetery,

The Reman Catholic Cemetery,

The Mahommedan Cemetery,

The Zoroastrian Cemetery,

The Jewish Cemetery,

Situate in the Wong-nai-chung Valley.

The Cemetery of the French Mission, at Pokfolum.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 29th day of April, 1890.

F. A. HAZELAND, Acting Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 3rd day of May, 1890.

W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.