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Enclosure 1.

A BILL

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No. 26-[26.8.09.]

Au Ordinance to amend the Tramway Ordinance,

1902.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Tramway Short title Amendment Ordinance, 1909, and it shall be roud and and con. construed as one with the Ordinance No. 10 of 1902 in. struction, -tituled “An Ordinance for authorizing the Construction of a Tramway within the Colony of Hongkong”, herein- after called the Principal Ordinance.

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2. Section 1 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amends amended by substituting the figure 2 for the figure 1 at the section 1 of end thereof.

the Principal Ordinance.

3. Section 21 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amends amended by the substitution of the words “a Governurut suction 21 of Department" for the words "the Government" in the the Principal Ordinance by fourth line thereof and by inserting therein the words inserting the telephonic or electric" after the word "telegraphic" in words "tele, the seventeenth live thereof; and the said section shall be phonte or read and construed as if the words “« Government De- electric". partment" and the words "telephonic or electric" had from the commencement of the said Ordinance appeared in the said fourth and seventeenth lines thereof.

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4. Section 23 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amends amended by substituting a comma for the full stop at the section 28 of end thereof, and by adding thereto the words " or, if there the Principal are any facts in dispute, by an action, and if any Depart reference to ment is a party to such difference, such special case may procedure. be stated by, or such action may be brought by or against, the chief officer in the Colony of such Department in the title of his office without aawing any individual person

5. Section 24 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amends amended by substituting a comma for the full stop at the section 24 of end thereof, and by adding thereto the words "or, if there the Principal Ordinance in are any facts in dispute, by an action ".

reference to procedure.

6. Ordinance No. 82 of 1902 intituled “An Ordinance Repeal of to amemt the Tramway Ordinance No. 10 of 1902", is Ordinance hereby repealed.

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1902.

Memorandum,

The object of the Bill is to supply au accidental omis- sion from section 21 of the Tramway Ordinance, 1901, of the words "telephonic or electric" after the word "tole- graphic" in the seventeenth line of the section; and to make further and better provision for the settlement of differences between the Transway Company and any Government Department.

HENRY S. BERKELEY,

Attorney General.