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"passing horses are
chiefly smployed in drawing cabs, omnibuses, or carts. The supteur of steam cars upon tramways is yet in its infancy.
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in a report dated 7th of June 1878
a Select Committee
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Tramways, make the following recom-
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2. While fair liberty should on the one hand
be granted to promoters, it is necessary
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the other hand to take luch decurities as are
warranted by the novelty of the undertaking
and by, the possible realization of unporedés u
Consequences.
3. The local authontier
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Competent judges
of the policy of Encouraging Steam on tramways and should be at liberty to make such con
bracts and.
and agreements with promoters as: they deem best for the local interes to which They represent.
may
4. The Board of Trade should have powers to
intervene
behalf of the public (1) to prevent
undue pressure being put by local authorities upon promoters, (2) to prevent bargains bring made by which the public may be injured wither
as residents or ratepayers.
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of steam may render possible to companies, and 45 the possible failure and inconvenience of the
of Steam or other mechanical power in frequented "Thoroughfares, it is desirable; (1) to provide for a periodical revision of tolls. (2) de provide for the. censation, at the sud of seven years of the contract or agreement under which the use of steam another power may be sanctioned, so that at the of that rust of Recurring periods of like duration the Concession should Eishör absolutely terminate or
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be so modified and generally revised as the scope= rience gained may seem to
to require.
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the House of Lords appointed to Enquitte into the same subject (the)
power on
O mechanical Tramways) in
in their Report dated
The 31st of March 1879, stated as follows :
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3. The Evidence given before the Committee shous
that there is a growing tendency bosh in the United
Kingdom and on the Contiment of Europe to substitute mechanical for horse power, although a
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stated that in the United States the use of steam after
having been adopted for some time, had lately been
almost Entirely discontinued on account of the wear
of rails and Engines. There is,
and kar
on the whole,
reason to believe that if legal sanction were given to
The Employment of mechanical power, it would be made
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of at once in many places, and that its adoption.
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