THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH JULY, 1881.

XLV. The Promoters and the Road Authority may, from time to time, enter into any agreements with respect to the construction, maintaining, removing, renewing, repairing and using of the Tramways, or any or either of them, and the rails, plates, sleepers and works connected therewith, and the facilitating of the traffic over the same.

XLVI. Where, in any Act or Acts of Parliament incorpo- rated with this Ordinance, or herein referred to, any act, deed, matter or thing is directed or required to be done, executed or committed by or before or in the presence of two Justices of the Peace, such act, deed, matter or thing shall be done, executed or committed by or before or in the presence of one Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong.

XLVII. Where, in any such Act or Acts of Parliament as aforesaid, any sum of money in Sterling currency of the United Kingdom is named, such sum of money shall be considered to be, and shall be taken and read, as though its equivalent in Mexican dollars, calculated at the current market rate for the time being, were inserted therefor and in substitution thereof.

XLVIII, Where, in any such Act or Acts of Parliament as aforesaid, any verdict, judgment, record, instrument or document is directed or required to be kept by any Clerk of the Peace among the records of any General or Quarter Sessions, or in any other manner or way, such verdict, judg- ment, record, instrument or document shall be kept by the Registrar, or Acting or Deputy Registrar, for the time being, of the Court in the Registry of the Court.

XLIX. Where, in any such Act or Acts of Parliament as aforesaid, any act, deed, matter or thing is directed or requir- ed to be done, executed or committed by or before or in the presence of any Master of any of the Superior Courts of the United Kingdom, such act, deed, matter or thing shall be done, executed or committed by or before or in the presence of the Registrar, or Acting or Deputy Registrar, for the time being, of the Court.

L. Any monies paid into Court under the provisions of this Ordinance, or any Act or Acts of Parliament incorpo- rated herewith, may, if the Court shall so order (but not otherwise), be invested by the proper Officer or Officers, for the time being, in whose name or names monies directed by the Court to be paid into Court are so paid in, in any of the modes of investment authorized by Section 17 of Ordi- nance No. 7 of 1873.

LI. Any costs directed by this Ordinance, or by an Act or Acts of Parliament incorporated herewith, or herein referred to, to be taxed, shall be taxed by the Registrar, or Acting or Deputy Registrar, for the time being, of the Court.

LII. The rate of interest to be inserted in any Bond to be given by the Promoters, as mentioned in section 85 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be six dollars per centum per annum, instead of £5 per centum per annum as therein mentioned.'

LIII. The several and respective periods of six months mentioned in sections 108 and 109 of the Lands Clauses 'Consolidation Act, 1845, shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be periods of three months.

LIV. Notwithstanding anythin Parliament incorporated with this Ordinance, or herein in any Act or Acts of referred to contained, all monies directed by the Court to be paid into Court shall be paid in in accordance with the existing regulations for the time being in force in the Colony of Hongkong, for payment of monies into Court.

LV. Where, in any Actor Acts of Parliament incorporated with this Ordinance, or herein referred to, any appeal is given to any party or parties to the General Quarter Sessions, such appeal shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be made to the Court, and shall in all cases be made in accord- ance with the provisions to that effect contained in the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, except that the Court of Appeal shall be the Court in lieu of the General Quarter Sessions.

LVI. All the powers, authorities, meanings and interpre- tations conferred by, or contained in any Act or Acts of Parliament incorporated with this Ordinance, or herein referred to, shall (unless the same or any of them are inconsistent herewith or are expressly varied hereby) be deemed to be and shall be in addition and supplement to, and not in substitution for, the like or similar powers, authorities, meanings and interpretations conferred by or contained in this Ordinance.

Agreements between Promoters and Road Authority.

One Justice substituted for two.

Dollars substituted for Sterling.

Documents to be kept in Registry of Court.

Registrar substituted for Master.

Investment of monies paid into Court.

Taxation of LUSES.

Rate of interest in Bond, under section 85 of L.C.C. Act,

1545.

Periods

mentioned in Sections 108 &

• 109 of L.CC. Act, 1845,

Payment into Court.

Appeal.

Powers, &c. in incorporated Acts to be in addition to the

powers, de, hcrein.

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Schedule A.

CROWN LESSEES.

OWNERS OF SECTIONS,

UNDER

LESSIES.

OCCUPIERS,

MORTGAGEES.

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