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THE

Dongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH APRIL, 1856.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. I. No. 42.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, Notifications, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 49.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

L. A. WIESE, Esquire, having notified to this Government that an application to Her Majesty's Government in London is about to be made on his behalf, to enable him to officiate as Consul in this Colony for the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, in place of Edward Reimers, Esquire, resigned: His Excellency The Governor directs it to be made known, that Mr WIESE will be recognized as such Consul pending the receipt of Her Majesty's pleasure.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th April, 1856.

[Government Notification No. 50, containing the Report, &c., of the Bowring Praya Commission, will be published in a Supplemental Gazette, on Tuesday Morning.]

HONGKONG.

ANNO DECIMO NONO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 8 of 1856.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for Buildings and Nuisances,

[16th April, 1856.] Whereas further Provision hath been found necessary for the better Regulation of Buildings and preven tion of Nuisances; Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof in manner following, that is to say :-

I. The following words and expressions in this Ordinance contained shall be construed in manner here. inafter appearing; that is to say:—

The wordWall' shall extend to and include every external Wall and party Wall.

The word 'Floor' shall extend to and include every Horizontal Platform forming the base of any Story, and every Joist, Board, Timber, Stone, and Brick, or other substance constituting the said Platform.

The word 'Story' shall extend to and include the full thickness of every Floor, and the space between the under surface thereof and the upper surface of the Floor or (if there be no such Floor) the Ground next below the said first-mentioned Floor.

The word "Works' shall extend to and include the constructing, reconstructing, pulling down, opening,. cutting into, adding to, and altering any Building, Wall, Chimney, Stack, Flue, Drain, Sewer, Cesspool, or any work whatsoever.

The word Building' shall extend to and include every House, Outhouse, or Shed.

The word 'House' shall extend to and include every Dwelling House, Warehouse, Shop, Manufactory, Work-room, Distillery, and Place of secure storage or custody.

Title,

Preamble,

Definitions,

Wall.

Floor.

Story.

Works.

Building. House.

The expression guilty of a Nuisance' shall apply to and denote any person guilty of committing or Guilty of a Nuisance, continuing any Nuisance whatsoever, and any person guilty of permitting or suffering any Nuisance whatso- ever, and any person guilty of omitting to take all proper and reasonable means for procuring the abatement of a Nuisance committed and continuing within his tenement, or upon or over some way or public place in the immediate neighborhood of his tenement, for the space of twelve hours after the said Nuisance shall have been committed.

Rules to be observed

II. All works henceforward shall be under the survey and inspection of the Surveyor General, and shall be commenced, resumed, prosecuted and completed with due observance of this Ordinance and particularly of as to works, the Rules next following, that is to say:-

1. The Walls of all Houses shall be solidly built of Bricks or Stones throughout, and shall be of 1. Walls of House the thickness of not less than nine inches at the upper Story, thirteen and a half inches at the Story immediately below the upper Story, and eighteen inches at the Story (if any) immediately below the said two Stories.