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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JUNE, 1883.

7.-The Watchmen shall immediately report to the Inspectors of Nuisances the existence of any accumulations of rubbish or noxious matter which they may discover either in private tenements, or in roads, streets, open spaces, alleys, courts, nullahs, drain-mouths, or sewer- traps, and they shall immediately apprehend and give in charge to the nearest policeman any person whom they may detect in the act of depositing any night-soil, house-slops, dry rubbish, building débris, or other refuse matters on any of the aforesaid places, and as soon after as possible the watchman who has apprehended such offender shall report the circum- stance to the Nuisance Inspector of the district, who shall conjointly with the said watchman charge the offender before a Police Magistrate.

8. The Watchmen shall report to the Inspectors of Nuisances the existence of any broken, choked, or defective house drains or downspouts, and any nuisances arising therefrom, or from any other cause which may come under their observation.

9.-The Watchmen shall report to the Inspectors of Nuisances any streets in their beats which shall

have remained unswept over one day by the Government Scavenging Contractor.

10.-The Watchmen must at all times implicitly obey the instructions of the Head Watchmen, and both Watchmen and Head Watchmen must understand that their sanitary duties, are of equal importance with their police duties, and that they must at all times use their best endeavours to prevent, detect and abate nuisances arising from the dirty habits of the people, and that if the Government does not receive from them that 'hearty co-operation and assistance in the detection of nuisances which it has a right to expect, such of them as may be found neglectful of their duties or otherwise inefficient shall be reported to the Registrar General for dismissal.

11.--The Head Watchmen shall once a day at a fixed hour meet the Inspectors of Nuisances of their Districts at the office of the Sanitary Inspector, and there make their reports, and receive such instructions as the Inspectors of Nuisances may have to communicate to them. Approved in Executive Council, this 20th day of June, 1883.

ARATHOON Seth, Clerk of Councils.

Instructions to Police Officers in charge of Outstations, for the maintenance of Order and Cleanliness therein.

1.-The Police Inspector of the Village shall not allow the construction or reconstruction of any house in the village without a written permit from the Surveyor General, and he shall see that no Verandahs over Crown Land are covered in or enclosed in front.

2.-Accumulations of night-soil, urine, sewage, house-slops, or refuse matter of any kind what- soever, offensive or inoffensive, are strictly prohibited on any private tenement or back yard, Crown land, vacant lot, road, street, footway, hill-side, open drain, foreshore, or on any places other than those set apart for the purpose, and the Police Inspector shall take due measures to prevent the same.

3.-The Police Inspector shall see that the public dust-bins are always so kept by the Government Contractor as not to become a nuisance. He shall see that people do not shoot rubbish against the exterior of the dust-bin walls, or that the Contractor's coolies or the public do not rake out or sift the contents of the bins.

4.-Constant attention must be paid by the Police Inspector to the preservation of the purity of the water courses, springs, wells, or tanks forming the water supply of the village, due care being taken to prevent the washing therein of clothes, or the bathing or washing of people or animals, and more especially the manuring and cultivation of gardens, or the rearing of pigs or other live stock, or the depositing of any noxious refuse matter on ground sloping on to or draining into such sources of water supply.

5.-The village market is to be kept by the stall holders and lessees in a thoroughly clean and inoffensive condition, and the Police Inspector shall see that the interior of the building is properly scavenged and swept, and then washed down with clean fresh water at least once a day, and he shall also see that the stalls, passages, or other parts of the market are not used at night as sleeping places. For this purpose he shall pay occasional night visits of surprise to the market.

6.-It is prohibited to all persons to obey the calls of nature on any road, street, vacant lot, hill-side, nullah, open drain, sewer trap, gully hole, or any other open or public place within the precincts of the village except a public latrine, and the Police Inspector shall do his utmost endeavours to prevent a class of offence so common in the villages.