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following most necessary addition: "And if the Survey or General rereafter alter the level of
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any road along or across which
any of
The
tramways is laid or authorised to be laid, the
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at their own Søkende
Company shall from time to time alter or (as The case may be ) lay their rails so that the upper-
- most surface there of Shall be on a level with
the surface of the road as altered."
Section 20. From the fourteenth and the
seventeenth lines omit the words" reasonable",
and "reasonably" respectively.
Section 22.
necessary
the
This section appears to me as as it is indecorous. It proposes to set up any private Engineer practising in the place as a court of appeal from the decisions of the Surveyor General on questions wholly pro- jessional . The decisions of the Surveyor General of the Colony on prozessional points and in mat ters Concerning
safety of the public traffic shouts be final and conclusive, and not subjected to revision by other Regineers practising locally. Redress can be obtained against the acts and decisions
д other the Surveyor General as
against those
of any public officer by a representation to the Govenor or the Governor in Council, and as it is obvious. that disputes arising between the Tramway Company
other Company are best settled in a court law I have to recommend the omission of this Section in toto.
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Section 23. In line 3, substitute the words
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"Officer duly appointedete, by the words " Surveyor Jeneral". If the Surveyor General is to have the responsibility of seeing that the tramways are to be maintained by the Company in dul repair, he obviously and no other, should be the officer to inspect them in the first instance. By. the term "Surveyor General "I'mean of course the officer acting for the time being as Surveyor
General.
Section 25 is a copy of the Lection 41 of the Imperial Tramways Act of 1870 (33 and 34 Fic. Cap 78) but I see no provision in the Ordi: rance against the insolvency of the Company Similar to the provisions in the section 42 of The Imperial Act just mentioned. I would there: fare suggest
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a clause to follow time after Section 25 in these terms: If at any
the insertion
are.
"The opening of any tramway it appears to the "Governor in Council that the Company insolvent "So that they
are unable to mainlain such tramway,
" or work the same with advantage to the public, the "Governor in Council. direct an suquiry by a
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referee
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May
referees into the financial affairs of The Company, and if the referee or referees shall find that the Company are so insolvent as afore - said the Governor in Council may by order, "declare that the powers of the Company, Shall at The repiration Six calendar mouths from the
of Making of the order, be at au sud, and the powers of the Company Shall cease and determine at the Expiration of the said period unless the same are purchased or leased in manner
by this