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be Excessive, an opinion that appears to have received the hipproval of the Select Committee.

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Your Lordship's House whose was published in Blue Book

a

report

form in 1879.

18. On the very important question of

Government resumption of the Hong

Kong tramways, I would respectfully advise – with the adaptations requisite

to the Circumstances of the Colony - the Adoption of

Sections 41, 42 and 43,

of the Imperial tramways Act of 1870,

And I would also recomment, in order to facilitate the Calculation of the indemnity that the Government

may some day to have to pay for such resumption, that periodical statistics

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reports of its receipts, Expenditure and general

operations, duly Certified, be made by the Com

pany to the Government, in accordance with the

practice of tramway Companies in this country. 19. In conclusion, I would submit that in

giving facilities for rapist Communication to the public from

one sud of the town to the other,

a distance of three and a half miles, the Hong Kong tramway project bids fair to prove of great public utility, provided the fares are sufficiently

reduced to bring the use

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of the cars within the

These grounds Your

the masses, and that on these

the Application of the promoters is worthy of Lordship's favourable

ourable Consideration and that y

the Colonial Yovemment.

I have the honour to be

My Lord

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