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therein . If the said notice be not obeyed , it shall be lawful for
the said board to apply to a Magistrate, who, on sufficient cause
shewn , shall summon before hin the tenant or occupier of such
dwelling house, or such householder.
If the person summoned admits, or if it be proved to the ma
Magistrate
y make
satisfaction of the said Magistrate that the said house is over order .
crowded, the Magistrate shall make an order for the abatement
of the nuisance forth with .
On the hearing of the said matter, the Magistrate may make Inspection.
such order for the inspection, at any hour of the night or day,
of the said house, as the circumstances of the case may require.
Such order to continue in force for a period not exceeding one
month .
71. Any room of аa tenement-house used as a common kitchen, Common
shall not be used as a sleeping room, and the householder, or to beused as
tenant thereof, shall be responsible that such common kitchen sleeping rooms .
is not so used, nor shall any passage, lobby, or other place,
partitioned off from any sleeping room to the height of the
ceiling, be included in the calculation of the cubic capacity
available for human habitation .
72. In the calculation of cubic space, for the purposes of the Children of
ten years.
four preceding sections, two children ten years , or under ten
years of age, shall be counted as one person, and every person
over ten years of age shall be considered as an adult.
73. No person shall open , or keep open , a common lodging- houses.
Lodging.
house, unless the house is registered,and the keeper thereof is
licensed by the Registrar General. The board shall have power (No. 26 of
from time to time to make go when made to alter amend or revoke 1890.]
bye-laws with regard to the licensing of regulation of common
lodging -houses as well as for their sanitary maintenance.
74. No person who shall erect a domestic building shall Domestic.
allow the same or any portion thereof to be occupied, until such buildings.
building shall have been previously examined by an officer of
the board, duly authorised by the board, and certified by such
officer as having been built in compliance with the entire
provisions of this ordinance.
75. Any person who shall not comply with the requirements Punishments.
of sections 67, 68 , 70, and 71 shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding fifty dollars, or, in default of payment, to imprisonment
not exceeding one inonth .
PART VI.
76. All reasonable expenses incurred by the board in conse- Reimburse
quence of any default in complying with any order or notice ment of to
expenses
issued under the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed the board.