IX. It shall be lawful for the Company from Time to Time to Company to
make such Bye-Laws as they shall think fit for all or any of make Bye-
the following Purposes, and also to repeal and vary the same:-
1. For regulating the Use of the Wharf and Pier.
2. For regulating the Use of the Tramways.
3. For regulating the Admission of Vessels to the Wharf and Pier and their removal from the same, and for the good Order and Government of such Vessels, whilst
lying alongside the Wharf and Pier.
4. For regulating the Shipping and Unshipping and Landing all Goods within the Limits of the Wharf and Pier.
5. For regulating the Duties and Conduct of all Persons as well as the Servants of the Company who shall be employed in or at the Wharf and Pier.
6. For regulating the Use of Fires and Lights at or near the Wharf and Pier and within any Vessel lying alongside the Wharf and Pier.
7. For preventing Damage or Injury to any Vessel or Goods
lying at or alongside the Wharf and Pier.
8. For regulating the Duties of the Porters and Coolies em- ployed in the Wharf and Pier, and affixing the Rates to be paid to them for carrying any Goods, Articles, or Things from and to the same.
9. For preventing Sampans or Boats of any Description fas-
tening themselves on to the Pier.
10. For preventing Vessels anchoring within a Distance dangerous to the Pier, or so as to interfere with Vessels using or intending to use the same.
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.
Laws.
X. 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.
XI. 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.
XII. 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.
XIII. In Case it shall become necessary or expedient for the Power to Purpose of any Extension or Alteration of the Public Praya or repeal
Ordinance. for any Public Purpose whatsoever, that the Pier and Tramways shall be removed, it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of the Colony, at any Time during the Continuance of this Ordinance by another Ordinance to be passed for that Purpose to repeal this Ordinance upon such Terms as to Compensation or as to the Substitution of other Powers or Privileges in lieu of those hereby granted, as may be deemed reasonable.
XIV. 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.
Ordinance.
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