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1054 [ 15 OF 1888. ] RATING .

( 16 OF 1888. ] EUROPEAN DISTRICT RESERVATION .
Form E.
THE RATING ORDINANCE, 1888.
Permission is requested to make the following corrections in the valuation
list for the year 188 • I declare that such corrections are of clerical errors
only, and that thevalues as so corrected are, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, full and fair valuations of the tenements named below, and are
correct in every particular.
Assessor.
Declare before me

Justice of the Peace.
Tenement.
Ass . Existing Corrected Reasons for
No. entry . entry. the corrections.
No. Street.




Approved
Governor.



No. 16 OF 1888.

An Ordinance for the reservation of a European Dis
trict in the City of Victoria.
[ 5th May, 1888. )
Preamble. HEREAS the health and comfort of Europeans in a
W tropical climate demand conditions which are incon
sistent with the neighbourhood of houses crowded with occu
pants and otherwise used after the manner customary with the
Chinese inhabitants, and whereas the influx of Chinese into the
Colony tends constantly to narrow the area of the City of Vic
toria where such conditions are attainable, and it is desirable to
reserve by law a district wherein such conditions
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may be*
secured :
Title. 1. This ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Eu
ropean District Reservation Ordinance.
Definitions. 2. In theconstruction of this ordinance , the words City of
Victoria shall mean the City of Victoria as defined by section 6
of The Regulation of Chinese Ordinance, No. 13 of 1888. The