There is another instance of how really good regulations for the betterment of the city can be rendered nugatory, either through the venality or the supineness of the police whose duty it is to enforce the regulations. It is a rule that, when a house has been destroyed by fire, or when, for some other cause, the owner desires to rebuild, if the house is situated in one of the main thoroughfares, three feet must be surrendered and the road widened to that extent. A certain official in Government employ has put up a row of houses just! inside the Wuyuinmén
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