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BYE-LAWS.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Governor, moved the adoption of the following Additional Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board :-

ADDITIONAL BYE-LAWS

Made by the Sanitary Board under Section 13, Sub-section 6. of Ordinance 24 of 1887.

1. The removal of excretal matters from premises other than those from which such matters are removed by the night-soil contractor, shall be carried out by night-soil carriers registered by and holding a licence from the Sanitary Board.

2. Licences shall be issued in the first instance to the existing private night-soil carriers, and no additional licences shall be granted unless and until the necessity for their issue shall have been shewn to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board.

3. Licences to night-soil carriers shall be issued annually and shall expire on the 31st of Decem- ber of the year in which they are issued.

4. Licences shall be issued free of charge. In the event of the loss of a licence a duplicate shall be issued on payment of a fee of 25 cents.

5. Every night-soil carrier licensed under these bye-laws shall, for the purposes of his work, use a bucket of such pattern as may from time to time be approved by the Sanitary Board.

6. Every night-soil carrier licensed under these bye-laws shall remove at least once in every 24 hours all excretal matters from the premises from which he shall have undertaken to remove such

matters.

7. No night-soil carrier licensed under these bye-laws shall convey excretal matters along any public street or road except between the hours of 1 A.m. and 7 a.m.

8. The night-soil carriers licensed under these bye-laws shall elect yearly out of their number a Committee of not more than 12 in number to represent them.

9. Such Committee shall assist the Sanitary Board in exercising a strict supervision over the licensed night-soil carriers, and in such other matters connected with the carrying out of these bye- laws as it may be called upon to do by the Board.

10. Any licensed night-soil carrier, being convicted of a second offence against these bye-laws, shall forfeit his licence in addition to any penalty inflicted under section 83 of the Public Health Ordinance.

Made by the Sanitary Board on the 18th day of October, 1894.

The Attorney General seconded. Question-put and agreed to nem. con.

EDWARD A. RAM, Acting Secretary.

QUESTION. Mr. BELILIOS, pursuant to notice, asked the following question :-

Have the Government, in view of the statements and recommendations contained in the recently received letter from Mr. Osbert Chadwick on the water supply of this Colony, decided to consider the expedience of putting meters in all the houses to which it is laid on for the purpose of pre- venting waste?

The Acting Colonial Secretary replied.

BILL ENTITLED ** AN ORDINANCE TO APPLY A SUM NOT EXCEEDING TWO MILLIONS FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND ONE DOLLARS TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE YEAR 1895."-The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the first reading of the Bill.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

BILL ENTITLED CC

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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CATTLE DISEASES, SLAUGHTER-HOUSES, AND MARKETS ORDINANCE, 1887."-The Attorney General moved the first reading of the Bill.

The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded." Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

BILL ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE STAMP ORDINANCE, 1886.'

General moved the first reading of the Bill.

The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded. Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

6."--The Attorney