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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1888.

25. Any member, or Officer of the Board duly author- ised by the said Board in writing, may, at any time between the hours of six in the morning and six in the evening, enter any shop or premises used for the sale or preparation for sale, or for the storage of food, to inspect and examine any food found therein which he shall have reason to believe is intended to be used as human food, and, in case any such food appear to such member or Officer to be unfit for such use, he may seize the same, and the Board may order it to be destroyed or to be so disposed of as to prevent it from being used as human food.

26. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to select and appoint, and by advertise- ment in the Hongkong Government Gazette, to notify sufficient and proper places to be the sites of, and to be used as Cemeteries or places of burial for the Chinese: and from time to time, to alter, vary, and repeal the said Notifications by others, to be advertised in the like man- ner; and in such Cemeteries or places it shall be lawfal for the Chinese, in conformity with the provisions of the Notifications actually in force, to bury their dead, yet so as that any person who shall use for that purpose a grave of less than six feet in depth from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.

27. The Governor in Council is authorised from time to time to notify by advertisement in the Hong- kong Government Gazette, that any Chinese cemetery or burial ground shall, from a time in such Notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accord- ingly; 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.

28. Whosoever shall bury any corpse or coffin in any ground not being a cemetery or burial ground authorised under this or any other Ordinance, shall (except in cases provided for by section 27 of this Ordinance) for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one

hundred dollars.

29. Where any person is suffering from small-pox or any other contagious or infectious disease, and is without proper lodging or accommodation, or is lodged in a tenement occupied by more than one family, or is on board any ship or vessel, a Magistrate may, on the certificate of the Colonial Surgeon or any other duly qualified Medical practitioner, order the removal of such person to such suitable hospital or other like place as may be provided for the purpose.

30. The keeping of cattle, swine, sheep, or goats without a Licence from the Board is hereby prohibited, and any person keeping such animals, either without a Licence from the Board, or in a manner contravening such sanitary conditions as may be endorsed on such Licence, shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine nor exceeding five dollars, and, in default of payment, to im- prisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days, and, in the discretion of the Magistrate, to forfeit all animals in respect of the keeping of which he has so offended.

PART II.

31. Whenever any part of the Colony appears to be threatened with, or is affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, the Governor, with the advice of the Excentive Council, may, by Proclamation from time to time. direct that the provisions contained in Sections 32 to 37 of this Ordinance, both inclusive, be put in force in the Colony, or such part thereof, as by such Proclamation may be specified, and may from time to time revoke or renew any such Proclamation; and, subject to such revocation and renewal, every such Proclamation shall be in force for such period as in such Proclamation shall be expressed, and every such Proclamation shall be pu- blished in the Government Gazette, and such publication shall be conclusive evidence thereof.

32. From time to time after the issuing of

any

such Proclamation as aforesaid, and while the same continues in force, the Board may issue Bye-Laws, as they shall think fit, for the prevention as far as possible, or mitigation of such epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, and from time to time may revoke, renew, and alter any such Bye- Laws.

Seizure of unwholesome food.

Chiese Cemeteries,

Closing of Chinese Cemeteries.

Burial clsewhere

Removal of infected

Persons.

Keeping pigs. &c.

Proclamation

of epidemic disease.

Bye-Laws for

prevention or mitigation of epidemic.

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