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would extend considerably in the future book in

towns and in rural districts.

4. Under these Circumstances the Committee

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with the bus Committees of

the House of

Commons in the opinion that the use of mechanie

hramways should be permitted on

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conditions Calculated to afford dus protection

persons using the streets or roads, through which the tramways may pass for the purposes of - dinary traffic, as well as to those whose interest: many

be in aus other way

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injuriously affected.

5. The novelty of the whole maller and the fact

that the Employment of mechanical power on tramways can sea

sear cely at present be said to have advances beyond the Experimental stage, make it desirable that while the conditions" imposed

should be of sufficient stringency to give reas

conable security for the public safety and for

the freedom of ordinary traffic, they should be

Elastito Enough not to throw needless impediments,

in the way of the development of the supteurs in the form which Experience

Experience may show to be practically

this principle that the Com

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upon.

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I have

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means of ascertaining what

motive power is Contemplated for Hong Tiong but if the promoters profit by the Expertienes of this Country they will not venture on horse

traction. The Climate is very

bad for

horses and will considerably aggravate

the difficulties Experienced Even in this healthy

Country by tramway propuctors in the preser their studs. In the Indian tramways ツ

:tation.

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horses are said to last only, from lighteen

mouths to two years and this in spite of the

greatest veterinary care and the precaution

tomake them wear bounits to

sun striking

to prevent the

on their heads. In the New Br=

Leans tramways I learn that horses seldom

last two years and that they have been cubstituted in must of the tramways by

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Chanical traction. In the climate of Havaunch

in the islaust of Cuba, which is tropical also, the tram mules die of heat apoplexy ind distress from the severity of the work within