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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST OCTOBER, 1885.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 407.

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The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Mecting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published for general information.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 28th October, 1885.

A BILL

ENTITLED

The Municipal Rates Ordinance, 1885.

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

Be

1. In this Ordinance :-

The term City of Victoria means the City of Victoria as bounded and defined under the provisions of the Victoria Registration Ordinance, 1866.

The term Kowloon Point shall mean all the district at British Kowloon South of a line drawn through (but not including) the south side of Eighth Street Yan-ma Ti, and prolonged to the sea-shore in either direction, which district at present called Tsim-

sha Tsui.

The term Tenement means any land, with or without buildings, which is held or occupied as a distinet holding or tenancy; and includes piers and

wharves erected in the harbour.

The term Owner means the holder of any tenement direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence, or otherwise, or the immediate landlord of any tonement, or the agent of any such holder or landlord who is absent or under disability. The term Public Institution means any tenement or portion of a tenement used or maintained wholly for any of the following purposes :-

Art,

Burial,

Charitable relief,

Education,

Literature,

Medical relief of the sick,

Religious Worship,

Seience,

and not for gain or peenniary profit,

Valuation.

2. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, appoint one or more valuers for the purposes of this Ordinance, and may allow them such remuneration as he thinks fit.

3. The valuers so appointed shall, in each year, before such day as the Governor in Council directs, make a valuation of the tenements in the Colony, or of such part thereof as the Governor in Council directs.

4. Any valuer may require the owner or occupier of any tenement to furnish him with the particulars specified in form A in the schedule hereto; and

May, from time to time, enter into and upon any tenement for the purpose of making a valuation thereof; and

May call upon such owner or occupier to exhibit to him all receipts for rent, reut-books, accounts, or other docu- inents whatever connected with the rent or value of such fenement.

If the owner or occupier refuse to allow him to enter any tenement, he may give to such owner or occupier written uofice requiring permission to cuter; and after twenty-four hours from the delivery of such notice may, at any time during the day time, enter into and upon the said tenement and inspect the same, and, if necessary, may use force to effect his entry, doing no more dange than is necessary for the purpose.

Appointment

of valuere.

Valuation of tenements to be unde,

Powers of valuers.