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GOVERNMENT TELEPHONES & ELECTRIC THANG 1342
Hon.Attorney General.
922 DEC 09)
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The Tramway Ordinance, 1902 (10 of 1902) was drafted by the
legal advisers of the promoters of the Electric Tramway under--
taking and notice of intention to introduce the Bill was
gazetted by Mosers.Deacon & Hastings for the promoters on 29th
June, 1901.
In ita original form Section 21 of the Bill referred to the
two Telegraph Companies only: "If any telegraph cable now or
hereafter to be constructed and worked in the wald Colony or any
of its Dependencies by the Eastern Extension Australasia and
China Telegraph Co.Ltd. and the Great Northern Telegraph Co.Ltd.
or any aerial or subterranean line connected with any ouch cable
or the sheathinge, covering er supports of any such cable or lime
shall be injuriously affected by the construction or working of
the undertaking, or by electrolysis or other cause arising or
resulting from the undertaking, the Company shall pay the
expenses of all such alterations in or additions to such cable,
line, sheathings, coverings or supports as may be necessary to
remedy such injurious affection. For the purposes of this seo-
tion a cable or lins shall be deemed to be injuriously affected
if telegraphic communication by means of such cable or line is,
whether through inductien or otherwise, in any manner affected
by any act or work of the Company"
The question of interference with telephones waM
raised before the bill was advertised and was under discussion
at that time.
On 25th May, 1901, after Mr. Pollock, Acting Attorney General had revised the Bill for the Government, copies were
sent to the Electric Company, the Cable Companies, the Gas
Company