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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JUNE, 1883.
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18. 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, in 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.
19. The Contractor shall remove all offal, mud, filth, dust, sweepings and all other refuse by boat to Lápsápwán, 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 at Lápsápwán, nor shall he allow the removal of it from any of his boats to any place other than the depôt at Lápsápwán.
20. In respect of the Hill districts of Victoria Peak, Mount Gough, and Mount Kellett, the Con- tractor 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 shall convey such waste matters in properly covered buckets to such depôts in the vicinity as may be pointed out to him by the Sanitary Inspector.
21.-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.
22. 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.
23. Should the Contractor at any time fail or neglect to provide a sufficient number of men to sweep, cleanse, and scavenge the streets, footpaths, traps, dust bins, &c., 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 cleansing of the same, and the cost of such additional men shall be defrayed by the Contractor, or should the tools and implements requisite for the due 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.
24.—The Contractor 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.
25.--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.
26.--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 20th day of June, 1883.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Contract for Night-soil Removal.
1.--The Government night-soil Contractor shall remove daily in closely covered buckets of a size and pattern to be approved by the Sanitary Inspector all night-soil, urine, and foul waters from all the public latrines in the city, and from such public latrines as may be hereafter erected during the term of his contract. He shall also remove all night-soil, urine, and animal manure from the public markets and slaughterhouses in the town, as also from all Government buildings within the City of Victoria, and from public or private tenements situated in the Hill Districts of Victoria Peak, Mount Gough, and Mount Kellett.
2.-With the sole exception contained in the following clause, all night-soil, urine, and animal manure within the City of Victoria shall be the absolute and exclusive property of the Government night-soil Contractor for the time being, and no person shall be at liberty to dispose of such night-soil, urine, or animal manure, except by its direct transmission to the Government night-soil Contractor's boats.
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