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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JUNE, 1881.
or other wheels suitable only to run on the prescribed rail. All carriages used on any Tramway shall be moved by animal or by mechanical power generated otherwise than by the use of fire on the line.
Fares and Rates.
XV. The Company shall have power to fix fares and rates for all passengers and goods carried by such Tramway, and to alter the same, and such fares and rates the said Company shall be empowered to demand, receive, levy and take. A table of such fares and rates in English and Chinese shall be exhibited in a conspicuous part of the office of said Company, and shall also be stuck up inside and outside of each carriage or car of the said Company used on the said Tramways: Provided that the Governor in Council may, from time to time, prescribe a maximum scale of fares and rates for the carriage of passengers and goods.
Regulations.
XVI. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the Governor in Council may, from time to time, make regula- tions as to the following matters :—
The rate of speed to be observed in travelling upon
the Tramway.
The safe distances at which carriages using the Tram- way shall be allowed to follow one after the other. The stopping of carriages using the Tramway.
The Traffic on the road in which the Tramway is laid; and His Excellency may, from time to time, repeal or alter such regulations, and all such regulations shall be published in the Gazette.
The Company may, from time to time, make regulations:- For preventing the commission of any nuisance in or upon any carriage, or in or against any premises belonging to them.
For regulating the travelling in or upon any carriage
belonging to them.
And the Company may, from time to time, repeal or alter such regulations and make new regulations, provided that such regulations be not repugnant to the Ordinances of the Colony,
and all such regulations shall be published in the Gazette.
XVII. Any such regulation may impose reasonable penalties for offences against the same, not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, with or without further penalties for continuing offences, not exceeding, for any continuing offence, five dollars for every day during which the offence continues; but all regulations shall be so framed as to allow, in every case, part only of the maximum penalty being ordered to be paid.
XVIII. Nothing in this Ordinance shall take away or affect any power which the Surveyor General or body or person may have to widen, alter, divert, or improve any road, or street.
Offences.
XIX. If any person wilfully obstructs any person acting under the authority of the Company in the lawful exercise of their powers in setting out or making, forming, laying down, repairing, or renewing a Tramway, or defaces or destroys any mark made for the purpose of setting out the line of the Tramway, or damages or destroys any property of the Company, he shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
XX. If any person, without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on him), wilfully does any of the fcl- lowing things, viz. :—
1st. Interferes with, removes, or alters any part of a Tramway, or of the works connected therewith, places or throws any stones, dirt, wood, refuse, or other material on any part of a Tramway;
How to be moved.
Power of Com-
pany to fix fares and rates.
Governor in Council may prescribe a maximum scale.
Regulations to be made by Governor in Council,
Regulations to be made by Company
Repeal or alteration of sume.
Notice of reg- ulations to
be published.
Penalties for offences.
Power of Sur- veyor General not taken away or affected.
Penalty for obstructing Company or damaging its work or pro- perty.
Penalty for intorfering with works of Tramway, or obstructing carriages, or endangering lives of pas- sengers
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