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"hereby granted, shall and will peaccably and quietly deliver up to Her said

Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns; And also that the said.

Executors, Administrators and Assigns "shall and will during the term hereby granted, as often as need shall require, "bear, pay and allow a reasonable share and proportion for and towards the costs 'and charges of making, building, repairing, and amending, all or any roads, pavements, channels, fences and party-walls, draughts, private or public "sewers and drains, requisite for, or in, or belonging to the sail premises, "hereby expressed to be demised or any part thereof, in common with other "premises near or adjoining thereto, aud that such proportion shall be fixed "and ascertained by the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, "or Assigns, and shall be recoverable in the nature of rent in arrear; And "further that it shall and may be lawful to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, by Her or their Surveyor, or other persons "deputed to act for Her or them, twice or oftener in every year during the said term, at all reasonable times in the day, to enter and come into and "upon the said premises hereby expressed to be demised, to view, search and "see the condition of the same, and of all decays, defects and wants of repara- "tion and amendment, which upon every such view or views shall be found, "to give or leave notice or warning in writing, at or upon the said premises,

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"Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, to repair and amend the same within "Three Calendar Months then next following, within which said time or space "of Three Calendar Months, after every such notice or warning shall be so "given, or left as aforesaid, the said...................

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"Administrators or Assigns will repair and amend the same accordingly." 4. The first Building Ordinance contained in the statute book of the Colony is No. 8 of 1856. Section 8 of this Ordinance runs as follows:-

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It shall not be lawful to construct, reconstruct or (if now in the course * of construction or reconstruction) to complete any house without a sufficient and safe place for lighting of fires and cooking of food; and also a sufficient "water-closet or privy and a sufficient ashpit furnished with proper doors "and coverings; all which shall be provided to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General, and from time to time emptied and cleansed, at such periods as the Surveyor General may direct; and every person offending against any of the enactments in this section contained shall for every such "offence forfeit and pay to the Crown a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars "nor less than ten dollars.'

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The above Ordinance was repealed in 1889 and Ordinance 15 of 1889 substituted for it; this Ordinance, as amended by Ordinances 25 of 1891, 15 of 1894, aud 7 of 1895, is still in force and contains provisions as to minimum height of floors, mezzanine floors, ventilation under floors, construction of privies, width of private streets, window area, and construction of damp course.

5. The Public Health Ordinances 24 of 1887 and 15 of 1894 contain many important provisions as to the prohibition and use of house unfit for human habitation, overcrowding, drainage, construction of areas, paving of floors and yard surfaces, erection of cubicles and mezzanine floors, construction of backyards in buildings erected on sites obtained from the Crown since the passing of Ordinance 24 of 1887, certificate necessary before occupation, height of buildings, and width of street.

6. Regulations have been made under section 13, Ordinance 24 of 1887, in respect of drainage, bake-houses, laundries, latrines, cominon lodging-houses, and under Ordinance 15 of 1894 respecting concreting, &c., of ground surfaces of buildings, areas, latrines, &c., ventilation, overcrowding, and sanitary maintenance of buildings. occupation of vaults and cellars,