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makes the maximum fines for breaches of the rules $250 or $50 a day for a continuing. offence and the maximum fine for breaches of the by-laws $100. Another objection to the form of the present section 17 is that the penalties have to be provided in the rules and by-laws, and no provision is made for any case where through inadvertence a rule or by-law is not provided with a penalty. The proposed new form of the section provides a penalty for all rules and by-laws, but gives power to reduce the maximum fines in the case of any particular rule or by-law.
6. Clause 6 of the bill gives the Governor in Council power to amend the Schedule which contains the Table of Tolls. It is hardly necessary to say that no amend- ment of the Schedule would be made without consulta-
tion with the company. At present there is no power
either to reduce or to increase the maximum tolls.
7. Clauses 7, 8, 9 and 10 increase to $100 the maximum fines under sections 25, 26, 27 and 28 of the principal Ordinance. The present maxima of $25 and $10 seem much too small for some of the offences, which include wilful obstruction of the company's servants, destruction of the property of the company, acting in such a manner as to endanger the lives of persons travelling on the tramway, and attempting to avoid payment of the legal fare.
5th June, 1926.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney Gem ral,
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 159.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hongkong.
Disease.
Port or Place.
Restrictions in Force.
Authority.
Cholera.
Bangkok.
Medical examination; quarantine at the discre-
tion of the Health Officer.
Small-pox,
Amoy.
Do.
Cholera.
Saigon.
Do.
Plague.
Pakhoi.
Do.
Cholera.
Hoihow.
Do.
Cholera.
Haiphong.
Do.
Notification No. 655 of 20th November, 1925.
Notification No. 124 of
9th March, 1926.
Notification No. 225 of
26th April, 1926.
Notification No. 273 of
20th May, 1926.
Notification No. 274 of 20th May, 1926,
Notification No. 338 of
24th June, 1926.
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