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Board meetings.
Quorum.
Standing orders.
Power to make bye-laws.
ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887.
Public Health.
and there shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury to such officers, such salaries and allowances as the Governor, with the consent of the Legislative Council, may from time to time determine.
10. The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The president may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed by three members of the Board, summon a meeting thereof.
11. Any four members shall be a quorum for the despatch of business, and at every meeting, the president or vice-president shall preside, or, in their absence, the members present shall appoint a chairman. The president or vice-president or in their absence the chairman so appointed, shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.
12. The Board may from time to time make standing orders for regulating the mode and order of procedure at its meetings, for the appointment of select committees, for the conduct of its business between such meetings, and for the guidance of its officers, and may from time to time alter and amend such standing orders.
13. The Board shall have power to make, and when made, to alter, amend, or revoke bye-laws with regard to the following matters :-
1. The proper construction, trapping, ventilating, and maintenance of private house-drains in the City of Victoria, and the villages, and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon.
2. The provision and proper construction of dust boxes in private premises.
3. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order to arrest damp in dwelling-houses.
4. The cleansing, lime-whiting, and proper sanitary maintenance of all premises in the Colony.
5. The sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals, dust-bins, and manure-depôts.
6. Surface scavenging, the removal and disposal of night soil and of other refuse.
7. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation and the prohibition of their use as such.
8. The protection of the public water supply from pollution.
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Board meetings.
Quorum.
Standing orders.
Power to make bye- laws.
ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887.
Public Health.
and there shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury to such officers, such salaries and allowances as the Governor, with the consent of the Legis- lative Council, may from time to time determine.
10. The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The president may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed by three members of the Board, summon a meeting thereof.
11. Any four members shall be a quorum for the despatch of busi- ness, and at every meeting, the president or vice-president shall préside, or, in their absence, the members present shall appoint a chairman. The president or vice-president or in their absence the chairman so appointed, shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.
12. The Board may from time to time make standing orders for regulating the mode and order of procedure at its meetings, for the appointment of select committees, for the conduct of its business between such meetings, and for the guidance of its officers, and may from time to time alter and amend such standing orders.
13. The Board shall have power to make, and when made, to alter, amend, or revoke bye-laws with regard to the following matters :-
1. The proper construction, trapping, ventilating, and main- tenance of private house-drains in the City of Victoria, and the villages, and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon. 2. The provision and proper construction of dust boxes in
private premises.
3. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order to arrest
damp in dwelling-houses.
4. The cleansing, lime-whiting, and proper sanitary mainte-
nance of all premises in the Colony.
5. The sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals, dust-
bins, and manure-depôts.
6. Surface scavenging, the removal and disposal of night soil
and of other refuse.
7. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation and the
prohibition of their use as such.
8. The protection of the public water supply from pollution.
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