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Completion
of works, and
reinstatement of road.
Further provisions as to construction of tramways.
No. 2.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1883.
the portion of road proposed to be opened or broken up, such notice to be given seven days at least before the commencement of the work;
(2.) the Company shall not open or break up or alter the level of any road except with the authority, under the superintendence, and to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General; and
(3.) the Company shall leave an interval of at least a quarter of a mile between any two places at which it may open or break up the road, and it shall not open or break up at any such place a greater length than one hundred yards.
up
the
same,
and
14.--(1.) When the Company has opened or broken up any portion of any road, it shall be under the following further obligations, namely,---- (a.) the Company shall, with all convenient speed, complete the
work on account of which it opened or broke (subject to the formation, maintenance, renewal, or alteration of, addition to, or removal of the tramway) fill in the ground, and make good the surface, and, to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General, restore the road to as good condition as that in which it was before it was opened or broken up; and
(b) the Company shall in the meantime cause the place where the road is opened or broken up to be fenced and watched and to be properly lighted at night.
(2.) If the Company fails to comply with this section, it shall, for every offence (without prejudice to the enforcement of specific performance of the requirements of this Ordinance or to any other remedy against it), be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars and to a further penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each day during which any such failure continues after the first day on which such penalty is incurred.
any
15. In addition to the requirements of the last preceding section, the Company shall, when it gives notice as aforesaid to the Surveyor General of its intention to open or
break up any road for the purposes aforesaid, lay before the Surveyor General a plan showing the proposed mode of constructing, laying down, maintaining, renewing, altering, adding to, or removing the tramways or works in respect of which it proposes to open or break up such road, and a statement of the materials intended to be used therein; and the Company shall not commence the construction, laying down, maintenance, renewal, alteration, addition to, or removal of such tramways or works, or any part thereof respectively, except for the purpose of necessary repairs, until such plan and statement have been approved in writing by the Surveyor General, and the works shall be executed in accordance with such approved plan and
A.D. 1883
statement. A Surveyor G
16.--(1.) opened for 1 condition a tramways is the cost of whereon any and also (w) road at a di:
of the maint
tramways, a
of so much ‹ and on each
(2.) Exce the cost of t
is laid.
(3.) The section, may or other doc of the Surve stipulating cost of main section, so th aforesaid cos
proper sum i
17.---(1.) and at their ordinary traf consist and Surveyor Ge level of any
then and in
pany shall, at thereof shall
(2.) If the shall for ever ing twenty-fi penalty not e such default
18.--(1.) the surface o