ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1882.

Tramways,

and re-enter the carriages; and every fare paid by every passenger for travelling upon the tramway No. 6, or any part thereof, shall entitle such passenger to travel any distance on the said last mentioned tramway, once, on the day on which such passenger shall so travel, in the same direction continuously, and without leaving the carriages, but for no further distance, or on any tramway other than the tramway No. 6, or more than once, or on any other day, or in any other direction, or to leave and re-enter the carriages.

43. If the carriages shall, during any journey, contain their proper complement of passengers, the company shall not be bound to find accommodation for any other passenger, notwithstanding that such other passenger may have purchased a ticket or tickets entitling him to travel upon the tramways, or any of them.

44. No passenger may take on any of the tramways his personal luggage other than small hand baskets, bags, or parcels, any one of which shall not exceed sixteen pounds in weight, or one cubic foot in measurement. All such personal luggage to be carried by hand, and at the responsibility of the passenger, and not to occupy any part of a seat, nor to be of a form or description to annoy or inconvenience other passengers.

45. The company may demand and take, in respect of any animals, goods, merchandise, minerals or parcels conveyed by them on the tramways, except as is by this Ordinance specially provided, including the tolls and charges for the use of the tramways, and for waggons or trucks, and for motive power, and every other expense incidental to such conveyance, any tolls or charges not exceeding the tolls and charges specified in schedule C hereto, subject to the regulations therein contained.

46. The said tolls and charges shall be paid to such persons, and at such places and in such manner, as the company may, by notice annexed to the list of tolls, appoint.

Abandonment of undertaking.

47. Notwithstanding anything herein contained, it shall and may be lawful for the company at any time, if they shall not then have, under the power herein contained, sold, assigned or disposed of, or demised their undertaking, or the part or parts thereof, to abandon their undertaking, or any part or parts thereof, and to take up the tramways, or any or either of them, on giving to the Governor in Council three months' notice of their intention so to do; and if the company shall abandon the tramways Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5, or any, or either of them, they shall, with all convenient speed and in all cases within eight weeks at the most (unless the Surveyor General otherwise consents in writing), fill in the ground and make good the surface, and to the reasonable satisfaction of the Surveyor General restore the portion of the road which such last-mentioned tramways, or such of them as shall be abandoned, were laid to as good a condition as that in which it was before such tramways were laid thereon, and clear away surplus paving, or metalling material, or rubbish occasioned by such work, and they shall in the meantime cause the place where the road is opened, upon

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If carriages full, company not bound to carry.

Passengers luggage.

Tolls for animals, goods, &c.

Payment of tolls

Liberty to company to abandon undertaking.

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