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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 13, 1909.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An 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 and the Ordinance No. 10 of 1902 intituled "An Ordinance for authorizing the construction of a Tramway within the Colony of Hongkong" herein- after called the Principal Ordinance and Ordinance No. 32 of 1902 shall be read and construed as one, and may be cited together as the Tramway Ordinances 1902-1909.

Short title.

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

the Principal Ordinance.

section 21 of Ordinance by the Principal

3. Section 21 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amends amended by inserting therein the words "telephonic or electric" after the word "telegraphic" in the seventeenth line thereof and the said section shall be read and con- inserting the strued as if the said words bad from the commencement of words "tele- the said Ordinance appeared, as they do now appear, in the phonic or said seventeenth line thereof.

electric ".

Amends section 23 of the Principal Ordinance in

reference to

4. Section 23 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by substituting a comma for the full stop at the end thereof, and by adding thereto the words “

or, if there are any facts in dispute, by an action, and if any Depart- ment is a party to such difference, such special case may procedure. he 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 naming any individual persou".

Amends section 24 of the Principal Ordinanec in reference to

5. Section 21 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by substituting a comina for the full stop at the end thereof, and by adding thereto the words “or, if there are any facts in dispute, by an action, and if any Depart- 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 naming any individual person".

Memorandum,

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

HENRY S. BERKELEY,

Attorney General.

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