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The following Rules made by the Hongkong Tramway Company, Limited, in pur- suance of the powers vested in it by the Tramway Ordinance, 1902, are hereby published pursuant to the provisions of Section 36 of that Ordinance. The Rules now published will come into force one month after this publication.
RULES
Made by the Hongkong Tramway Company, Limited, for preventing the commission of nuisances and for regulating the travelling in the cars of the Company under powers conferred by Section 36 of the Tramway Ordinance No. 10 of 1902.
1. The Rules hereinafter set forth shall extend and apply to all cars used on the tramways, and to all places in respect to which the Company now have or at any time hereafter may have power to make Rules.
2. The tickets of the Company are issued on the condition that the Rules made by the Company are observed.
3. No person shall travel or attempt to travel as a passenger on a car in any class if a notice has been put up in the said car stating that the accommodation in that class is fully taken up.
4. No person shall travel or attempt to travel on the top of any car in excess of the number of passengers for which seating accommodation is provided on the top of such
car.
5. No passenger shall enter or depart from a car from that side which is on the right hand of the motor man.
6. No person shall converse with the driver of any car while such driver is on duty.
7. No passenger shall take any luggage on a car of a description calculated in the opinion of the Conductor to annoy or inconvenience other passengers. All personal and other luggage shall be carried by the passenger unless the Conductor requires it to be put in some particular place in which case the passenger shall comply with the require- ments of the Conductor.
8. No passenger shall smoke so as to cause nuisance or inconvenience to other passengers.
9. No person shall expectorate inside or upon any car.
10: No passenger or other person shall while travelling in or upon any car play gr perform on any musical instrument.
11. No person' in a state of intoxication or affected with any infectious or contagious Any such disease shall enter or mount or attempt to enter or mount upon any car,
be person found on any car shall leave on request, and, in default of compliance, may removed by or under the direction of the Conductor.
12. No person shall swear or use obscene or offensive language whilst in or upon any car or commit any nuisance in or upon or against any car or any premises or pro- perty of the Company or interfere with the comfort of any passenger.
13. No person whose dress or clothing might, in the opinion of the Conductor soil or injure the seats or fittings of a car or the dress or clothing of any passenger and no person who, in the opinion of the Conductor, might for any other reason be offensive to passengers, shall be entitled to enter or remain in or on any car and shall leave on request. Any such person may be prevented from entering any car and shall not enter any car if requested not to do so by the Conductor: and if found in or on any car shall on the request of the Conductor, leave the car upon the fare, if previously paid, being returned.
14. Each passenger shall upon demand pay to the Conductor the fare legally demandable for the journey and accept a ticket corresponding thereto but this Rule shall not apply to a monthly ticket holder or to Government postmen and policemen on duty and in uniform.
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