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1126 [ 15 of 1889. ] BUILDINGS .



foundation, or upon an external or party wall and every
bressummer bearing upon any external or party wall, must be
borne by a template or corbel of stone tailed through at least
half the thickuess of such wall and of the full breadth of the
bressummer.
Floors.
Distance be- 21. The floors of any one building shall not approach nearer
tween floors
of contiguous than nine inches towards the floors of any other contiguous
building building separated by a party wall, and the space intervening
between the ends of the two floors shall be properly and
substantially built up solid with whole bricks or with stone laid
in mortar.

Floors to rest
on solid brick
22. The floors of all buildings including verandahs shall in all
oroshlon brone: cases rest upon at least six inches of solid bricks work or stone -work
work or
work. and abut ayainst, at least nine inches of solid brick -work or stone
( No.25 of
1891.] work, and in all cases where the wall supporting such floor is of a
less thickness than eighteen inches, such wall shall be corbelled out in
brick or stone -work immediately below the joists of the floor.
Space be 23. A clear space of at least nine feet measured vertically,
tween tloors. shall be left between any two floors of any dwelling house.
Mezzanine 24. A mezzanine floor or story shall have in every room a
floor.
clear space both above and below it of nine vertical feet, where
such floor or story extends over more than two -thirds, and of
six vertical feet where it extends over two -thirds or less than
two -thirds of the greater dimension of Where aay
such room .
mezzanine floor shall have been erected, previous to the passing
of this ordinance, under conditions contrary to the provisions
of this section , and it shall appear to the Surveyor General that
such conditions affect the safety, or to the Sanitary Board that
tbey affect the health, of the inmates or of the public, it shall
be lawful for the Surveyor General to order the removal of such
mezzanine floor to such extent as may be approved by the
Governor in Council.
Height of 25. The height of every uppermost story of any dwelling
uppermost
story of house shall be measured from the level of its floor up to the
dwelling
house.
under side of the tie of the roof, or up to half the vertical height
of the rafters or purlins when the roof has no tie.
Corbelling.
Corbelling. 26. All corbelling for the support of floor or of roof timbers,
shall be done in stone cut to flat beds or in red brick at least
nine inches in length and laid flat. No one corbelling course
if of brick shall project beyond the course immediately beneath
it more than two and a quarter inches.