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No. 9.1.
Minimum of clamage to be done. Compensa- tion to be paid.
Government
to provide facilities.
Depth, course and position
of works.
Wires to be
on metallic
return
principle.
Marking of future
TELEPHONE.
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same shall not hinder or interfere with the railway traffic) and may alter or remove the
same.
Provided always that the Company shall not be deemed to acquire any right other than that of user only in the soil of any street, or unleasel Crown Laud or any other place under, in, upon, over, along or across which the Company places or maintains any works.
9. In the exercise of the authority conferred under section 8 the Company shall do as little damage as may be, and shall make full reasonable compensation for all damage caused by reason of or in cousequence of the exercise of such authority.
10. The Government agrees to provide to the Company, at the Company's expense, sites, to be approved of by the Governor in Council, for submarine cable terminal houses at suitable points within the Colony, any suitable sites, to be approved of by the Governor in Council, for the Company's submarine cable storage tanks.
The Government shall also provide, free of cost to the Company, a suitable reserve or suitable reserves, in which vessels and craft may not anchor, for submarine cables of the Company, such reserve or reserves to be approved of by the Governor in Council.
11. The depth, course and position at and in which any telephone lines or cables, posts, inspection pits or any other works are to be placed shall be determined by the Director.
12. Every wire placed or maintained by the Company, either overhead or underground, shall, subject to the provi- sions of section 25, be on the principle of a metallic return otherwise called the Double Wire System.
13. Every underground tube, casing, wire, or cable of the Company, hereafter placed or luid or relaid by the underground Company, shall be so marked by the Company throughout its course as to distinguish it from the tubes, casings, pipes, wires, or cables of every other person.
apparatus.
Posts to be
of approved design and material.
14. Every post of the Company shall be of a pattern, design and material which is approved by the Director.
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15. No wire, stay, bracket, insulator or other thing Restriction whatsoever shall be attached to any Government building on attach- except with the previous consent in writing of the Director ments to
Public or to any tree except with the previous consent in writing Buildings or
of the Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry to trees. Department, and the Company shall not without the like consent of the said Superintendent lop, top, or fell any tree or shrub.
16. (a) Every post of the Company shall be marked Posts to bear by the Company with a distinguishing mark painted or distinguish- otherwise legibly marked upon it, and the Company shall ing marks at all times maintain such marks in a legible condition.
and reference plans to be
(6) The Company shall forthwith cause
a plan to be supplied. made of the area of operation and shall cause to be marked thereon the alignment of all its then existing lines, street distributing boxes, posts and other works, and shall once in every year cause that plan to be duly corrected so as to show the lines, street distributing boxes, posts and other works for the time being in position.
(e) Every such plan shall be drawn to such scale as the Director may require, provided however that no particular scale shall be required unless maps of the locality on that scale are for the time being available to the public or to the Company.
(d) Every plan so made or corrected or a copy thereof marked wit the date when it was so made or corrected shall be kept by the Company at its principal office or place of business within the area of operation, and shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of all applicants.
(e) The Company shall if required by the Director supply, free of charge, to the Director a copy of every such plan, duly corrected so as to agree with the original kept at the principal office or place of business of the Company.
17. Every overhead wrie or cable in any main thorough- Overhead fare shall be carried at a height of not less than eighteen wires to be feet above the ground except with the previous consent carried at in writing of the Director.
height of at least 18 feet.
18. Every telephone line shall be maintained in a safe Telephone condition as regards both electrical and mechanical lines to be
conditions,
maintained in safe condition.
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