THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST NOVEMBER, 1884.
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19.--The dust-boats shall be stationed daily at the stations named between the hours of 9 P.M. and 7 A.M. in summer, or 9 P.M. and 7.30 A.M. in winter, but they will not be allowed to remain near the Praya on any account whatever except between the hours specified, but will proceed direct to Mount Davis, and such dust-boats, as well as the dust-carts referred to in the preceding clause, shall be carefully cleansed every day after the conveyance of the refuse, so as to be inoffensive to the neighbourhood in which they may be kept.
20.-The Contractor shall provide 5 floating dust-bins of a size and pattern to be approved of by the Sanitary Board, and they are to be stationed during the day at the following points on the praya, viz. Ship Street, Eastern Market, Gilman Street, Queen Street, and East Street.
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21. It is to be distinctly understood that the Contractor shall not shoot or deposit any dust, dirt, sweepings, offal, or refuse of any kind or description whatsoever, whether offensive or inoffensive, any sewer, open drain, sewer trap, gully hole, side channel, street, road, or vacant lot, either within or without the City of Victoria, nor yet on the foreshore along the Praya, or into the sea at any part of the harbour, or in any place whatsoever other than the depôt specially mentioned in the following clause.
22.-The Contractor shall remove all offal, mud, filth, dust, sweepings and all other refuse by boat to Mount Davis, there to be deposited at a depôt to be indicated to him by the Sanitary Inspector, and he shall not allow any such refuse to be dropped into the water in the act of loading the boats, or in landing and discharging their contents, nor shall he allow the removal of it from any of his boats to any place other than the depôt at Mount. Davis.
23. The Contractor shall use every endeavour to completely burn the City refuse deposited at the depôt at Mount Davis.
24.---In respect of the Hill districts of Victoria Peak, Mount Gough, and Mount Kellett, the Contractor shall daily remove before 7 A.M. all sullage and kitchen-slops, as well as all dry rubbish, dust, and ashes from every public and private tenement, and he shall convey the same in properly covered buckets of approved size, pattern, and material to such depôts in the vicinity as may be pointed out to him by the Sanitary Inspector, and the depôts shall be kept in such a manner as not to become a nuisance.
25.--The Contractor is bound in the strictest manner by the Rules and Regulations issued and to be issued under Ordinances No. 9 of 1867 and No. 7 of 1883.
26.---The Contractor shall be responsible for any damages which may arise from his non- observance of any part or clause of this agreement, and he shall make good all such damages immediately upon being required to do so by the Sanitary Inspector, who shall appraise such damages according to the schedule of prices in force in the Public Works Department of the Colony, and the Contractor shall abide by such appraisement and decision as final.
27.-Should the Contractor at any time fail to provide a sufficient number of men to sweep, cleanse, and scavenge the streets, footpaths, traps, dust-bins, &c., or fail or neglect to carry ont any portion of this contract, the Sanitary Inspector shall be at liberty to supply such additional number of men as he may deem necessary, or make such other arrangements as to him may seem fit for expediting the work of clemusing, &c., and the cost of such additional men shall be defrayed by the Contractor, or should the tools and implements requisite for the duc execution of this contract not be to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Inspector, the latter shall be at liberty to procure proper tools and implements at the cost of the Contractor.
28.--The Coutractor shall at all times see that his servants carry out their work in an orderly manner, and that no unnecessary noise is created by them during the performance of their duties. He shall also see that his sweeping gangs perform their work in such a manner as not to cause any annoyance to passengers.
29.-The Contractor's coolie quarters must comply with the Sanitary conditions required of lodging houses for Chinese Emigrants.
30. His Excellency the Governor reserves to himself the exclusive right of cancelling this contract, without giving previous notice to the Contractor, at any time, upon His Excellency's finding that the said Contractor is not fulfilling the whole or any part or clause of this contract or any Rules and Regulations already issued or to be hereafter issued under Ordinances No. 9 of 1867 and No. 7 of 1883.
31.-And it is hereby distinctly understood that this contract refers solely and exclusively to the scavenging and removal of such waste products as offal, sullage, cesswaters, house-refuse, ashes, dust, mud, and general house and street sweepings, and that it does not include the removal of night- soil, or urine, or animal manure, for the collection and removal of which a separate Government Contract exists.
Approved in Executive Council, this 15th day of October, 1884.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
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