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1132 [ 15 OF 1889. ] BUILDINGS .

with all convenient speed be shored or taken down by the
Surveyor General, and the attendant cost shall be recoverable
by him from the owner of such dangerous building. In all
cases of emergency, the Surveyor General may cause the neces
sary work to be done without notice, the cost of such work
being recoverable in like manner.
Hoardings and Scaffoldings.
Hoardings 57. No public pathway or thoroughfare shall, during the
and scaffold .
ings. erection or repair of a building, be occupied by a hoarding or
scaffolding or by any building material whatever except by
authorityof the Surveyor General who may grant snch authority
on a written application, and upon such conditions as will
provide for the safety and convenience of passengers and the
occupiers of adjoining property. In all such cases the ground
occupied must be enclosed with a hoarding for the protection
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of passengers, and due care shall be taken that the side-channel
shall be in no way obstructed by such boarding or by any
building debris or building materials; nor shall the pavement,
side-channel, or concrete covering of any public thoroughfare
be broken up, or into, by the excavation of holes for the pur
pose of securing any hoarding or scaffolding poles.
Inflammable structures.
Inflammable
structures .
58. It shall not be lawful for any person to erect in the
[ See No. 13 of Colony of Hongkong whether on private land or land the pro
1888, 8. 27.] perty of the Crown, or wbether for temporary or for permanent
occupation , and shed or structure of wood, mats, palm leaves,
thatch , or other inflammable material except with the previous
sanction of the Surveyor General and except subject to the rules
and regulations that may be made by the Governor in Council
under this ordinance, and no such shed or structure shall be
erected on any private land or land the property of the Crown
situated within the drainage area of any public reservoir, nor
without the special permission of the Governor in Council on
any hill-slope draining into the City of Victoria.
Blasting Stone.
Blasting
stone.
59. It shall not be lawful for any person to blast any stone
with any explosive substance, in the Colony, of Hongkong,
unless he shall have fully covered over and weighted down the
stone to be blasted with a sufficiently heavy timber shield or
taken such other precautions as shall effectually prevent any
fragments of such stone from being projected into the air, and
unless in addition , he shall previously have fully warned all
persons within a radius of five hundred feet from the proposed
blast by means of red flags and by the beating of a gong con .