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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1888.

Owners to

comect drains with main-

sewers.

Suspected Grains to be opened by

Board.

Houve drains in Villagest and Eural Districts.

Open dams.

Sungs

Stagnam

water.

Area.

Awn to be left in hard

parroased previous to Ordinance.

52. If any-building be without a sufficient drain, and if a public sewer of sufficient size be within one hundred feet of the premises or outermost boundaries of the lot on which such building is situated, and if such public sewer be on a lower level, it shall be lawful for the Board to require the owner of such building to connect with such public sewer by means of a proper drain adequately trapped and ventilated, to the satisfaction of the Board: "Provided always that, if, after the passing of this Ordinance, any owner, by order of the Board, connects his building with a public sewer, he shall not be required to connect such building, at his own expense, with any other public sewer.

58. Whenever the Board shall have reason to believe that the drains of any building are defective and in a condition injurious to Health, it shall be lawful for the Board to order an Inspecting Officer to enter the premises and to inspect such drains, and, if requisite for the purposes of such inspection, such Officer shall cause the ground to be opened in any place or places he may deem fit, doing as little damage as may be, and should such drains be found in a satisfactory condition, they shall be reinstated and ande good by the Board at the public expense, but should such drains prove in the opinion of the Board defective, it shall cause them to be properly reconstructed in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.

54. Every owner of a new building in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain, and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty or with any other means of drainage with which such drain may lawfully communicate.

55. Wherever feasible, every house-drain in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall here- after he an open drain consisting of a semi-circular channel, of glazed stoneware jointed in cement mortar and laid to - adequate falls on a bed of good lime or cement concrete,'to the satisfaction of the Board.

open

56. In isolated places not connected with any public drainage system, every such drain shall lead and empty into a covered sump or cesspit built of brick or lime con- crete rendered smoothly in good Portland cement mortar in such manner as to be water tight.

57. No premises within the City of Victoria or the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon, shall be so excavated as shall admit of the formation, on the surface thereof, of pools of stagnant or other foul waters, and it shall be law- ful for the Board to call upon the owner of any premises whereon such pools may exist, to fill up the same with good clean earth to the level of the surrounding ground, or to drain off such pools by means of surface-drains into any channel with which such surface-drains may lawfully communicate.

PART IV.

38. Every person, who shall ercet a new building on land obtained from the Crown, after the passing of this Palinance, and on a site, excavated out of a slope or declivity, shall noi permit such new building to abnt against the hill-side, but shall leave a clear intervening space or area of at least four feet between such new building, along its whole extent, and the toe of the slope of the hill-side, always provided that-

(15) Any kitchen, or out-house, appertaining to such new building, may abut against the hill-side, if not designed, or intended for human habitation : auth.

(2.) Any basement story, designed for cellarage or purposes other than human habitation, may abut against the hill-side, to the extent of the height of such basement story,

59. In the case of land obtained from the Crown before the passing of this Ordinance, every person, who shall erect any new building on a site which has been excavated out of a slope or declivity, shall leave a clear intervening space or area of at least four feet, between such new building, along its whole extent, and the toe of the slope of the hill- side, unless,

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