TRAMWAY.

No. 10 of 1902.

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goods.

54. The company may demand and take in respect of Charges for any animals, goods, merchandise, commodities, minerals or animals and parcels conveyed by them on the tramway, except as is by this Ordinance specially provided, charges not exceeding those specified in Schedule B, subject to the rules therein contained.

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

Abandonment of undertaking.

56. If the company abandons its undertaking or any part thereof and takes up the tramway or any portion thereof, it shall, with all convenient speed, and in all cases within eight weeks at the most (unless the Director of Public Works otherwise consents in writing) fill in the ground and make good the surface, and, to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, restore the portion of the road upon which the tramway, or such portion thereof as shall be abandoned, was laid, to a good condition, and shall clear away surplus paving or metalling material or rubbish occasioned by such work, and 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 : Provided that if the company fails to comply with the provisions of this section the Director of Public Works may at any time, after seven days' notice to the company, remove the tramway and do the work necessary for the restoration of the road to the extent provided for in this section, and the expense incurred by him in so doing shall be repaid by the company.

Offences.

57. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance for which no penalty is specially provided, or wilfully obstructs any person acting under the authority of the company in the lawful exercise of any of the powers hereby conferred, or defaces or destroys any mark made for the purpose of setting out the line of the tramway, or

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.

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