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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND FEBRUARY, 1889.

7. Owner-Any house-owner or the person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint-tenaut, or tenant in common with others or receiving the rent of any premises I whether on his own behalf or that of any other person, or where the owner cannot be found or ascertained the occupier. A mortgagee in posses- sion shall also be deemed an owner.

8. Partition. Any division not being a cross wall between two rooms, or between a room and a passage or lobby in the same building, such build- ing being or being designed to be wholly in one occupation.

9. Party Structure.-Any party wall, partition, arch, floor, or other structure separating buildings which belong to different owners.

10. Party Wall.-Any wall used or built in order to be used as a separation of any building from any other building, with a view to the same being occupied by different persons.

11. Public Building.-Any building, not in the occu- pation of the Naval or Military Departments, used for public worship, public instruction, public assem- bly, or public recreation; also every building used as a public hall or hospital, or for any other public purpose whatsoever.

12. Story. The space between the upper surface of every floor and the upper surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no such floor, of the roof next above the said first mentioned floor. 13. Tenement House.-Any domestic building let to and inhabited by more than one occupier or family, as tenants of a common landlord, or as sub-tenants of a tenant of any portion of such domestic building. 14. Verandah.-Any projection over Crown Land whether verandah, oriel, portico, flying balcony or

other structure.

15. Wall.-Any external wall, party wall, and cross

wall. 16. Works. The partial or total constructing, recon- structing, pulling down, opening, cutting into, adding to, and altering any building, wall, retaining- wall, chimney, stack, flue, scaffold, ground, road, well, drain, sewer, pier, wharf, fence, or any work whatsoever.

Appeal to Governor in Council.

7. Whenever any person shall be dissatisfied with the exercise of the discretion of the Surveyor General in respect of any act, matter, or thing, which is by this Ordinance made subject to his discretion, the person so dissatisfied may in lieu of reverting to any legal remedy appeal to the Go- vernor in Council who may make such Order in respect thereof, as may be deemed expedient, and such order shall be final for all intents and purposes.

Building Materials.

8. Except as hereinafter provided, all walls of buildings shall be constructed exclusively of good hard well burnt brick, sound stone cut to flat beds, or other hard and incombustible substance.

Exceptional Structures.

9. Every public building, factory, or building intended for special uses including the walls, roofs, floors, galleries and staircases, and every structural work of iron, concrete or other material not provided for in this Ordinance, shall be constructed with such precautions for the safety of the public as having regard to the special purposes for which such building or structural work is intended to be used, shall be approved by the Surveyor General.

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. In the case of buildings of more than two stories, black bricks, unless specially approved by the Sur- veyor General, may be used for the construction of only the upper portion to the extent of 36 feet of such building, and,