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dated the 26th. October 1899 advising the Government, on behalf

of the Syndicate who obtained the original Ordinance "that, as

the approaching termination of the New Praya works will afford

an opportunity for laying out a new and complete system of

tramways, arrangements are being made for introducing an

Amending Ordinance in place of No. 6 of 1883. Trusting that

this course may meet with the approval of His Excellency the

Governor".

The Acting Attorney General advised that the receipt

of that letter should be merely acknowledged (in view of all

that had taken place previously as detailed in this Memorandum),

I also hear rumours that the Promoters have sold their alleged

rights recently and intend to begin making the Tramway until

stopped, whether the Governor approves or not! On resuming my

port. as Attorney General, I found this to be the position of

matters, and it seems to me that it would be desirable to as-

certain whether the Secretary of State would sanction in these

circumstances, the repeal of Ordinance 6 of 1883, as amended

by Ordinance 18 of 1885, or whether it would be better to

arrange with the Promoters for an alteration in the route of

any of the Tramways mentioned in that Ordinance, and an anend-

ment of the Ordinance accordingly.

Messrs Shewan and Tomes have recently applied for

permission to construct Tramways in Victoria to be run on the

electric trolley system and also to construct others on the

Kowloon side of the water, and I understand that His Excellency

desires mo to draft a general Tramways Ordinance somewhat on

the lines of the Jamaica Tramways Ordinances and thus intro-

duce a system of Licensing (see for instance the Licence set.

out in the Jamaica Gazette of 17th.March,1898.)

Just before His Excellency left the Colony the other

day on leave, he desired me to make recommendations which might

be