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EUROPEAN DISTRICT RESERVATION. ( 16 of 1888. ] 1055

words Chinese Tenement shall mean any tenement of the type
usually designed for habitation by Chinese other than domestic
servants. The words European District shall mean that portion
of the city which is situated on the southern or south eastern
side of a dividing line beginning from a point on the Pokfoolum
Road at No. 1 Bridge and passing along the Pokfoolum Road,
High Street, and Bonham Road, as far as Ladder Street, thence
along the northern boundaries of Inland Lots Nos. 573 and 574
and bisecting Inland Lots Nos. 523 , 423 , 157 and 94, thence
along the northern boundaries of Inland Lots Nos. 100, 1086 ,
122 and 123, thencealong Shelley Street and along the northern
boundary of Inland LotNo. 125, thence along Chancery Lane,
Arbuthnot steps, Wyndham Street, Ice House Lane , Battery
Path, Beaconsfied steps and the north boundary of the Military
Parade Ground, thence along Queen's Road East as far as Inland
Lot No. 73, thence along the western, southern, and eastern
boundaries of the same, thence along Queen's Road East as far
as the west boundary of Inland Lots Nos. 47A and 47 , thence
along a line parallel with and 200 feet to the north of Kennedy
Road as far as the Wantsai nullah and thence along Kennedy
Road to its junction with Queen's Road East, and which divid
ing line is more specially set forth and denoted in the official map
of the City of Victoria to be signed by the Governor and to be
registered in the Land Office of the Colony. The words “ [Till [No. 26 of
District” shall mean the district bounded on the east by the Wantsai 1888.]
and Aberdeen Valleys, on the west and south by the carriage road
from the City of Victoria to Pokfulum Police Station and thence
by a line passing over the Pokfulum Reservoir Dam along the
600 feet contour level as far as the Aberdeen Valley, and on the
north by the European district of the City of Victoria as defined in
this section .

3. After the passing of this ordinance it shall not be lawful Building of
to build any Chinese tenement within the European District Chinese tene
or Hill District, and no non-Chinese tenement whether now European
pro
built or hereafter to be built within such European District or dibirect.
Hill District shall be divided with the object of providing for its [No. 26 of
occupation by more than one person to every one thousand cubic 1888.1
feet of clear internal space, nor shall such non - Chinese tenement
be at any time occupied by more than one person to every one
thousand cubic feet of clear internal space.
4. Upon the complaint of any person-whether such person Surveyor
be aggrieved or not — that a Chinese tenement has been built inspection
General's of
within the European District or Hill District or that any tene- tenement.
ment in such district is sub-divided, or is occupied by an undue [ No. 26 of
number of persons in contravention of the provisions of this 1888. ]
ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Surveyor General or any