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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH MAY, 1889.
19. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary provided, where buildings are in rural districts such build- ings if entirely detached from other buildings and separated by a distance of not less than one hundred and fifty feet from any neighbouring building, in different ownership, may have walls and verandahs constructed wholly or partly of wood, and such buildings shall be deemed to be exceptional structures and shall be subject to the approval of the Sur- veyor General in each particular case.
Bressummers or Lintels.
20. Every bressummer used in a building must have a bearing of at least six inches at cach end, and must rest upon a sufficient pier of brick or stone, or iron story-post fixed on a solid foundation, or upon an external or party wall and every bressummer bearing upon any external or party wall, must be borne by a template or corbel of stone tailed through at least half the thickness of such wall and of the full breadth of the bressummer.
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Floors.
21. The floors of auy one building shall not approach nearer than nine inches towards the floors of any other contiguous building separated by a party wall, and the space intervening between the ends of the two floors shall be properly and substantially built up solid with whole bricks or with stone laid in mortar,
22. The floors of all buildings including verandahs shall in all cases rest upon, and abut against, at least nine inches of solid brick-work or stone-work, and in all cases where the wall supporting such floor is of a less thickness than eighteen inches, such wall shall be corbelled out in brick or stone-work immediately below the joists of the floor.
23. A clear space of at least uine feet measured ver- tically, shall be left between any two floors of any dwelling house.
24. A mezzanine floor or story shall have in every room a clear space both above and below it of nine vertical feet, where such floor or story extends over more than two-thirds, and of six vertical feet where it extends over two-thirds or less than two-thirds of the greater dimension of such room. Where any mezzanine floor shall have been erected, previous to the passing of this Ordinance, under conditions contrary to the provisions of this Section, and it shall appear to the Surveyor General that such conditions affect the safety, or to the Sanitary Board that they affect the health, of the inmates or of the public, it shall be lawful for the Surveyor General to order the removal of such mezzanine floor to such extent as may be approved by the Governor in Council. 25. The height of every uppermost story of any dwelling house 'shall be measured from the level of its floor up to the under side of the tie of the roof, or up to half the ver tical height of the rafters or purlins when the roof has no tie.
Corbelling.
26. All corbelling for the support of floor or of roof timbers, shall be done in stone cut to flat beds or in red brick at least nine inches in length and laid flat. No one corbelling course if of brick shall project beyond the course immediately beneath it more than two and a quarter inches.
Roofs.
27. The roof of every building or of any minor super- structure placed above such roof, shall be externally covered with tiles, glass, metal, or other incombustible substance except the doors, and frames of dormers or sky-lights. All hatchways leading out into the roofs of buildings, shall be provided with hatches, or covers which if not composed entirely of metal shall be properly sheathed externally in sheet metal.
28. No roof-timbers of any one building shall approach nearer than nine inches towards the roof-timbers of any other contiguous building and the space intervening between the ends of such timbers shall be properly and substantially built up solid with whole bricks or with stone laid in
mortar.
29. No platform, superstructure, staging or frame-work of wood, mats, or other inflammable materials shall be erected or fixed temporarily or permanently, over or upon the roof of any building within the City of Victoria or any of the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon. Provided that frames affixed to house-roofs for the purpose of drying clothes may be made of bamboo.
Buildings under rural Teases may be of wood.
Bressummers
or Lintels.
Distance ba- tween floors of contiguous building.
Floors to rest on solid brick- work or stone- work.
Space between floors.
Mezzanine floor.
Height of uppermost story of dwelling
house,
Corbelling.
Covering of roof.
Roof-timberE.
Platform.
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