THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1882.
such mains or pipes, tubes, wires or apparatus or not, give seven days' notice to the Company, persons or person, to whom such mains, or pipes, tubes, wires or apparatus may belong, of their intention to lay down or alter the Tramway, and shall at the same time deliver a plan and section of the proposed work. If it shall appear to such other Company, persons, or person, that the con- struction of the Tramway, as proposed, would endanger any such main or pipe, tube, wire or apparatus, or interfere with, or impede, the sup- ply of water or gas, or the telegraphic or other communication, such other Company, persons or person may give notice to the Company to lower, or otherwise alter the position of the said mains or pipes, tubes, wires or apparatus in such manner as may be considered necessary; and any diffe- rence as to the necessity of any such lowering or alteration shall be settled in manner provided by this Ordinance for the settlement of differences between the Company and other Companies or persons; and all alterations to be made under this section shall be made with as little detriment and inconvenience to such other Company or persons or person as the circumstances will admit and under the superintendence of such other Company, persons or person, or of their, or his, Surveyor or Engineer.
(3.) The Company shall not remove or displace any of the mains or pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires or apparatus, or other works, belong. ing to any such other Company, persons or per- son, or do anything to impede the passage of water or gas, or the telegraphic or other commu- nication into, or through, such mains or pipes valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires or apparatus, without the consent of such other Company, persons or person, or in any other manner than such other Company, persons or person, shall approve, until good and sufficient mains, pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires or apparatus, and other works necessary or proper for continu- ing the supply of water, or gas, or telegraphic or other communication, as sufficiently as the same was supplied by the mains or pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires or apparatus, proposed to be removed or displaced, shall, at the expense of the Company, have been first made and laid down in lien thereof, and ready for use, and to the reason- able satisfaction of the Surveyor or Engineer of such other Company, persons or person, or, in case of disagreement between such Surveyor or En- gineer and the Company in such manner as an Engineer, or other fit and proper person appointed, by the Governor in Council, shall direct. (4.) The Company shall not lay down any such, mains or pipes valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires or apparatus contrary to the regulations of any Ordinance relating to water, gas, or other Companies, or to telegraphs.
(5.) The Company shall make good all damage done by them to property belonging to or controlled by any such other Company, persons or person, and shall make full compensation to all parties for any loss or damage which they may sustain by reason of any interference with such property or with the private service pipes of any person supplied by any such other Company or person with water or gas.
(6.) If by any such operations as aforesaid the Com- pany interrupt the supply of water or gas in or through any main or main pipe, for a period exceeding twelve consecutive hours, they shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for every day upon which such supply shall be so interrupted.
20. Where any Tramway, or any work connected there- with, interferes with any sewer, drain, water-course, or sub-way, or in any way affects the sewerage or drainage of the said Colony of Hongkong, the Company shall not commence any such Tramway or work until they shall have given to the Surveyor General fourteen days previous notice in writing of their intention so to do, and leaving
For protection of sewers, &c.
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