618 [ 6 of 1883. ) TRAMWAYS .
by the Surveryor General or other officer duly appointed in
writing for that purpose by the Governor in Council, and the
Governor in Council has, by notification in the Gazette,
authorized the same to be opened for such traffic.
C'esser of powers in certain events.
C'esser of
powers in
26. If the company do not , within three years after the time
certain at which they might, under this ordinance, have commenced
events . the construction of any one or more of the tramways hereby
authorized, and complete, and open the same for public traffic, or
If within one year after the time aforesaid , the construction
of any one or more of such tramways, is not, in the
opinion of the Governor in Council, substantially
commenced , or
If the construction of any one or more of such tramways
that has or have been commenced , is suspended without
a reason sufficient , in the opinion of the Governor in
Council , to warrant such suspension,
thepowers hereby given to the company for constructing such
tramways, so not completed or commenced, or so suspended as
aforesaid , or otherwise in relation thereto, shall cease to be
exercised, unless the time be prolonged by the Governor in
Council, and, as to so much of each or any of such tramways
as is then completed, the Governor in Council may allow the
said powers to continue and to be exercised if he shall think
tit, but failing such permission the same shall cease to be
exercised , and where such permission is withheld then so much
of the said tramways respectively as is then completed shall be
deemed to be a tramway to which all the provisions of this
ordinance relating to the discontinuance of tramways after proof
of such discontinuance shall apply, and may be dealt with
accordingly. A notice published by the Governor in Council
in the Gazette declaring that a tramway has not been completed
and opened for public traffic, or that the construction of the
tramways, or any or either of them , has not been substantially
commenced within the time aforesaid , or that such construction
has been suspended without sufficient reason, shall be conclusive
evidence for the purposes of this section of suchi non -completion,
non -commencement, or suspension.
Licences to use tramways..
Licences to 27. If, at any time after any tramway , or part of any tram
third parties way, shall have been for three years opened for public traffic,
to use
tramways. it shall be represented in writing to the Governor in Council
by twenty inhabitant rate-payers of the Colony of Hongkong