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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH NOVEMBER, 1871.
and Costs may be removed into the Supreme Court, and may be enforced in the same Manner as if the same were an Order of such Court.
Vessels.
IX. All Vessels belonging to or engaged in the Service of Her Priority of Majesty's Government shall have Priority of Use of the Pier or Use of Wharf Wharf at the ordinary current Rates, without Prejudice to the to certain Rights of other Vessels actually using the Wharf, and all other Vessels shall have the Right of using the Pier or Wharf at the current Rates in Order of Priority of Application, subject never- theless to any Bye-Laws which may be made under the Provision next hereinafter contained, to provide for Cases of Urgency.
Laws.
X. It shall be lawful for the Company from Time to Time to Company to make such Bye-Laws as may be necessary for the general Manage- make Bye- ment of the Business of the Company: Provided always that no such Bye-Laws as aforesaid, nor any Repeal or Variation thereof, shall come into Force until the same shall have been approved by the Governor in Council, and shall have been published in the Gazette.
XI. Every Person who shall commit a Breach of any Bye-Law Penalty for made in pursuance of this Ordinance, shall on Summary Conviction Breach of Bye-Laws. thereof before a Magistrate be liable to a Fine not exceeding Fifty
Dollars.
XII. In all Proceedings before any Court, the Bye-Laws of the Proof of Company in Force for the Time being under this Ordinance, shall Bye-Laws, be sufficiently proved by the Production of a Copy of the Gazette in which the same shall be published and contained.
fail to make
XIII. If the Company shall fail to make or vary such Bye- If Company Laws as in the Opinion of the Governor in Council are requisite Bye-Laws, for the Protection of the Rights of the Inhabitants of this Colony, Governor in and for the Prevention of Injury to Navigation, the Governor Council may in Council shall make an Order to be served upon the Secretary make them. of the Company, limiting a Time for the making of such Bye- Laws by the Company, and if such Bye-Laws are not made by the Time prescribed in such Order, the Governor in Council may make or vary such Bye-Laws, which Bye-Laws when made or varied and published in the Gazette, shall have the same Force and Effect as if they were specially enacted herein.
Rates to be
XIV, The_Company shall froin Time to Time cause to be Statement of painted on Boards or to be printed and attached to Boards in Bye-Laws and large and legible Characters in English and Chinese a Statement set up in large of the Bye-Laws in Force and a List of the several Rates for the and legible Time being payable, and shall cause such Boards containing such Characters. Statement and List to be fixed in Front of the principal Office of Business of the Company, and on some conspicuous l'art of the Pier, and no Rate shall be payable during such Time as such List is not so affixed nor shall any Rate not specified in such List be payable: Provided always that if any such Statement or List be destroyed, injured or obliterated, the Rates shall continue_payable during such Time as may be reasonably required for the Restora- tion or Reparation of such List in the same Manner as if such Statement aud List had continued affixed and in the State required by this Ordinance.
Council in
XV. If at any Time before the Completion of the Works, the Power to Company shall fail to proceed therewith for a Period of Six Governor in Months or if after the Completion thereof shall disuse the same or certain Cases any Part thereof for Six Months without affording to the to order Governor in Council some satisfactory Reason for the Discontinu- Abatement ance or Disuse of the said Works, (as the Case may be) it shall be and removal lawful for the Governor in Council to abate and remove the same and restore the Site thereof to its former Condition at the Costs of the Company, and the Amount of such Costs shall be a Debt due to the Government and recoverable against the Company accor- dingly.
of Works,
XVI. Nothing in this Ordinance otherwise than specially Saving of enacted herein shall be construed to interfere in any Way with existing any existing Rights in the Land on which the said Wharf and Rights. Pier are to be constructed or the Lands or Foreshore adjoining the
same.
XVII. This Ordinance shall continue in Force for Thirty Years Duration of to be computed from the First Day of January, 1871: Provided Ordinance. always that the Governor in Council may from Time to Time, so often as he shall think it expedient, by an Order to be published in the Gazette, declare that the Duration of this Ordinance shall be extended for any further Term not exceeding Ten Years at a Time, and thereupon this Ordinance shall continue in Force for such extended Period.
XVIII. This Ordinance shall come into Force on such Day as Commence- shall be hereafter fixed by Proclamation under the Hand of the ment of Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 16th Day of
November, 1871.
L. D'ALMADA = CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.
Ordinance.
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