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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JUNE, 1883.
3. The night-soil and urine of such public latrines as are held by private Licencees within the City of Victoria shall form the sole exception to the foregoing clause. Such licencees shall continue to retain the ownership of the night-soil and urine of such public latrines, paying to the Government night-soil Contractor three cents for each picul removed from the latrine to the anchorage station off Stone Cutters' Island.
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The Government night-soil Contractor shall provide boats suitable in number and size, with closely fitting hatches, and of a special constructional type to be defined to him by the Sanitary Inspector, and the carrying capacity and crew of each boat shall not be less than specified in the following list:--
No.
1'
Jardine's Bazaar,
2
Ship Street,
3
Eastern Market,..............
4
Pottinger Street,
5
Gilman's Bazaar,
6
Cleverly Street, .....
7
Queen Street,
8
New Eastern Street,
9
French Street,
10
Shekt'ongtsui Nullah,
STATION.
Night-soil Boats.
CARRYING CAPA- CITY IN PICULS WEIGHT.
MINIMUM
No. OF CREW.
300
5
500
300
5
500
7
600
7
600
7
600
7
300
5
200
4
200
4
5.-The night-soil boats shall be stationed daily at the wharves named, between the hours of 3 A.M. and 7 A.M. in summer, and 4 A.M. and 7.30 A.M. in winter, and they shall not be allowed to remain, on any account whatever, after the hours above specified, and such boats, as also all night-soil buckets used by the carriers in the employ of the Government night-soil Contractor, shall be carefully washed and cleansed every day after the conveyance of night-soil, so as to be inoffensive to the neighbourhood in which they may be kept. And the Government night-soil Contractor shall on no account allow his carriers or coolies to wash their night-soil buckets in the sea, but he shall see that such buckets are always washed inside the night-soil boats and the water thrown into the boats.
6. It is distinctly understood that the Government night-soil Contractor shall not throw or deposit any dirt, foul waters, scourings, or any refuse matter, offensive or inoffensive, in any sewer, surface drain, sewer trap, gully hole, street, road, hill-side, 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, nor in any place whatsoever other than that specially prescribed in the following-clause.
7.-The Government night-soil Contractor shall remove all night-soil, and urine, and all foul waters from public latrines by boat to the night-soil anchorage off the westernmost Cape of Stone Cutters' Island, there to be transhipped or dealt with by him, subject to such directions for the prevention of a nuisance at the anchorage station as he may from time to time receive from the Sanitary Inspector, and he shall not allow any such refuse to be landed on the shore at Stone Cutters' Island, or dropped into the water in the act of loading the boats, or in discharging or transhipping their contents. 8.-The transhipment of night-soil and urine or foul waters from the night-soil boats to other boats at the anchorage station shall not be allowed after 2 P.M. and the Government night-soil Contractor shall be held responsible for the creation of any nuisance after that hour.
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9. The Government night-soil Contractor shall on no account sell or otherwise dispose of night-soil, urine, animal manure or foul waters from his boats while the latter are stationed at the wharves, or during their passage to the anchorage station off Stone Cutters' Island. All persons desirous to purchase and take delivery of refuse matters from the night-soil Contractor shall only be at liberty to do so after the night-soil boats have reached the anchorage station aforesaid, and before the hour of 1 P.M.
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