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SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVTM GAZETTE OF 23rd JULY, 1887. 867

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7. The Board shall be held to be legally constituted notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by death, absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.

8. The Governor may appoint such officers as he shall see fit to be Sanitary Superintendent, Sanitary Surveyors, Inspectors of Nuisances, and such other servants as the Board may from time to time recommend and there shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury to such officers such salaries and allowances as the Governor with the consent of the Legislative Council may from time to time determine.

9. The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The President may at any time, and shall on a requisition signed by three members of the Board summon a meeting thereof.

10. Any four members shall be a quorum for the des- patch of business, and at every meeting the President or Vice-President shall preside, or in their absence the mem- bers present shall appoint a Chairman., The President or Vice-President or in their absence the Chairman so ap- pointed shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.

11. The Governor may from time to time by Order under his hand direct that all resolutions or decisions of the Board involving the expenditure of any sum of public money in excess of fifty dollars shall be submitted to him before being acted upon.

12. The Board may from time to time make Standing Orders for regulating the mode and order of procedure at its meetings, for the appointment of Select Committees, for the conduct of its business between such meetings, and for the guidance of its Officers and may from time to time alter and amend such Standing Orders.

13. The Board shall have power to make and when made, to alter, amend, or revoke Bye-Laws with regard to the following matters :-

1. The proper construction, trapping, ventilating, and maintenance of public or main drains and sewers as also of private house-drains and sewers in the City of Victoria and the villages and rural dis- tricts of Hongkong and Kowloon.

2. The provision and proper construction of privies in

private premises.

3. The provision of adequate space about dwell- ing-houses in order to secure a free circula- tion of air.

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4. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order

to arrest damp in dwelling houses.

5. The proper lighting and ventilation of dwelling

houses.

6. The cleansing, lime-whiting and proper sanitary

maintenance of all premises in the Colony.

7. The sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals,

dust-bins, and manure-depôts.

8. Surface scavenging, the removal of night soil and

the disposal of refuse.

9. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation

and the prohibition of their use as such.

10. The protection of the public water supply from

pollution.

11. The prevention of the manufacture or sale of un-

sound adulterated or unwholesome food.

12. The regulation of bakehouses, dairies, ærated water manufactories and food preserving establishments. 13. The prohibition of the establishinent within certain limits, and the control of any noxious or offensive trade, business, or inanufacture.

14. The sanitary maintenance of Common Lodging- Houses, opium smoking divans, factories, and places. of public instruction, recreation or as- sembly.

15. The prevention of overcrowding in premise either in respect of human beings or the lower animals. 16. The sanitary maintenance of all depôts and pens

for cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.

17. The sanitary maintenance of markets and slaughter-

houses.

18. The construction, licensing, and proper sanitary

maintenance of pig-sties in private premises.

Vacanelen.

Sanitary Staff.

Board meetings.

Quorum.

Decisions of Board to be sixhanted to Governor,

Standing Orders.

Power to make Bye-Laws.