THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1888.
10. Keeper of a Common Lodging-House.-Any person licensed to keep a Common Lodging-House. 11. New Building.-Any structure begun after the commencement of this Ordinance or of which the enclosing walls have not been carried higher than the footings, or such old buildings as shall for the purposes of reconstruction be taken down to an extent exceeding one half, such half to be measured in cubic feet.
12. Occupier.-The person in actual occupation of any
premises.
13. Owner. Any house-owner, or the person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint-tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person, or, where the owner cannot be found or ascertained, the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an Owner.
14. Person (and words applied in this Ordinance to any individual).-Corporations, Companies, and Associations.
15. Premises.—Any land, building, or structure of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, "pool, paddy-field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered, or enclosed, cess- pool or foreshore, also any vessel or boat lying within the waters of the Colony.
16. Secretary.--The Secretary to the Sanitary Board duly appointed under the provisions of Section 6 of this Ordinance.
17. Tenant.-Any person who leases direct from any Householder the whole of any floor or floors of any building or tenement-house.
18. 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.
19. Fessel-Any steam or sailing ship, launch, junk,
lighter, sampan, or boat.
4. The Board shall consist of the Surveyor General, the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Colonial Surgeon, and not more than six addi- tional members, four of whom, (two being Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor, and two elected by such rate-payers as are included in the Special and Common Jury Lists, and also by such rate-payers as are exempted from serving on juries on account of their professional avocations. Non-official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.
5. The mode of election, the proceedings incident thereto, and all other matters relating to the election of the said members, by the said rate-payers, shall be governed by Rules made by the Governor in Council, who may, from time to time, add to, vary, or revoke, any of the said Rules. 6. The Governor shall appoint the President, Vire- President, and Secretary of the Board, and the names of all members appointed to the Board shall be forthwith notified in the Government Gazette, and any number of the Government Gazette, containing a notice of any such ap- pointments shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof, before any Magistrate or Court of Law.
7. If any member of the Board be at any time pre- vented by absence or other cause from acting for more than six months, the Governor, may appoint, or, if the member has been elected, the clectors may nominate some other person to replace such member, until he shall be able to resume his functions.
8. The Board shall be held to be legally constituted, notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by death, absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member."
9. The Governor may appoint such officers as he shall see fit to be Sanitary Superintendent, Sanitary Surveyors, Inspectors of Nuisauces, and such other servants as the Board may from time to time recommend, and there shall
Keeper of Common Lodging- House.
New Building.
Occupier
Owner.
Porsen.
Fremises.
Secretary
Tenant.
Tonement- House.
Vessel.
Coonsürmtion
of the Board,
Governer th nuke Rules for elections,
Provider. Vier-President ail Secretary.
Substitute members.
Vacuuteies.
Sanitary Stadi.
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