THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 2, 1909.
by means of padlocks the keys of which shall be kept by railway officials. Any person desiring to use the same must give reasonable notice of his intention to do so to the station master of the nearest station. Cattle passing over the occupation crossing must not be driven but led by a suitable and properly secured halter. Any person using or attempting to use an occupation crossing without such notice as aforesaid and any person causing cattle to cross without such halter as aforesaid and the owner of any cattle so crossing shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding three mouths,
owner of animal
£5. The owner of any animal which shall trespass or Liability of stray upon the railway or upon any lands appertaining to the railway (such railway or lands being provided with trespassing. suitable fences for excluding cattle) shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding five dollars for each animal and it shall be lawful for any railway official to take or drive every animal which shall be found so trespassing to the nearest police station there to be detained mutil the highest amount of penalty incurred by such trespass and the expense of feeding and keeping the animal be paid or until a Magistrate shall otherwise order. Should the animal prove unmanageable it shall be lawful for any railway official to kill it and the owner will be liable to prosecution and fine if the trespass be prov. d.
A Magistrate may upon proof of the trespass cause such animal to be sold by public avetion and the proceeds of the sale after d ducting therefrom such fine as the Magistrate shall award and such further sum as the Magistrate shall "order to be paid for the expenses of detaining feeding and selling such animal shall be returned to the owner of the animal on demand,
56. Any person who shall unlawfully and wilfully Penalty for remove or deface any number-plate or remove or extinguish injury to any lamp on any carriage or signal-post belonging to the carriage etc.. railway or shall wilfully imitate any railway signal or shall wilfully or negligently damage or injure any carriage engine wagon truck station warehouse bridge building machine rail-points fence or any other matter or thing belonging to the railway shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprison- ment with or without hard labour for any term not exceed- ing one year.
57. If any person for whose use or accommodation any Penalty for gate or chain shall have been set up by any railway official opening or on either side of the railway, or if any other person shall open shutting
not properly such gate or chain or pass or attempt to pass or drive or gates of attempt to drive any cattle carriage or other animal or thing chains. across the railway at a time when any engine or train approaching along the same shall be in sight, or shall at any time omit to shut and fasten such gate or chain as soon as he and any cattle carriage or other animal or thing under his charge shall have passed through the same he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty nor exceeding fifty dollars.
or breach of
way official.
58. Any railway official who shall be in a state of Penalty for intoxication or under the influence of opium, compound of drunkenness opium, morphine or any other marotic, whilst actually duty by rail- employed upon the railway or any of the works comected therewith in the discharge of any duty and any railway official who negligently shall omit to perform his duty or shall perform the same in an improper manner shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, and if the duty be such that the omission or negligent performance thereof would be likely to endanger the safety of any person travelling or being upon the rail- way such official shall on conviction be liable to imprison- ment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding one year or to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or to both.
wilful.
59. If any person shall rashly or negligently and without Penalty for lawful excuse do any act which shall be likely to endanger an act not his own safety or that of any person travelling or being upon the railway he shall upon summary conviction be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding six months or to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, or to both.
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