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Existing lines and posts deemed to be placed under this Ordinance.
Establishing, maintaining, or working unlicensed telegraph or breaking condition of licence.
Using such telegraphs.
Telecommunication.
(4) If any such owner or occupier fails to give such notice as is required by subsection (3), or having given notice fails to take such necessary precautions, and if damage is done to such telegraph line by the act of himself, his servants or agents, he shall be liable to pay to the Director of Public Works or to the licensed person concerned all costs and expenses that may be incurred in repairing the line and re-establishing communication.
(5) If the amount so due for costs and expenses be not paid within seven days after demand the Director of Public Works or the licensed person concerned may, upon a summons taken out in that behalf, recover such amount before a magistrate.
(6) If any trees or vegetation are felled or cleared, or if any matshed, scaffolding or other structure is erected, upon land adjacent to any telegraph line, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that such clearing, felling or erecting was done by the owner of the land or by his servants or agents acting as such.
14. Every telegraph line or post placed before the commencement of this Ordinance under, over, along, across, in or upon any property for the purposes of a telegraph established or maintained by the Government or by a person licensed under this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been so placed in exercise of the powers conferred by, and after observance of all the requirements of, this Ordinance.
PART IV.
Penalties.
15. Any person who establishes, maintains or works a telegraph within the Colony otherwise than as permitted by a licence granted under section 3 or breaks any condition contained in such a licence shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars, and to a further fine of five hundred dollars for every week during which the telegraph is maintained or worked or the breach of the condition continues.
16. Any person who, knowing or having reason to believe that a telegraph has been established or is maintained or worked in contravention of this Ordinance, transmits or
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