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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 12, 1913.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 286.

Bye-laws made under Section 5 of the Tramway Amend- ment Ordinance, 1913, (Ordinance No. 17 of 1913), this IIth day of September, 1913, (with effect from the 11th October, 1913.)

1. Workmen's ticket books may be purchased at the Bay View and Shaukiwan Police Stations and at such Stations only; such tickets shall be paid for in Hongkong Currency. The Officer in charge of each Station shall keep a register of sales in a book to be provided by the Company and shall pay over the cash received by him for such sales to the Com-, pany's Traffic Manager once a month.

2. Workmen's ticket books shall only be sold to a person who satisfies the officer in charge of the Station at which they are purchased that

(a.) He is a bonâ fide workman as hereinafter defined by bye-law 13; (b.) He resides outside the City of Victoria.

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3. Every person applying for a workmen's ticket book shall on the first application furnish to the officer in charge two copies of his photograph.

4. Every person to whom a workmen's ticket book is sold on such first application shall be given a certificate signed by the officer in charge. Such certificate shall certify that such person is a bonâ fide workman and entitled to hold a workmen's ticket book.

A copy of the photograph of the purchaser shall be annexed to such certificate. Another copy shall be filed by the officer in charge. No subsequent ticket shall be sold to such person except on production of his certificate. Any certificate worn out or lost may be replaced by the officer in charge.

5. All applicants for ticket books shall furnish the officer in charge with all such information as he may require and no applicant for a ticket book shall furnish any false information.

6. Each workmen's ticket book shall entitle the holder to 60 single journies at the price of 2 cents for a single journey.

7. A workmen's ticket book shall only be used before the hour of 7 a.tn. in the morning and between the hour of 5 and 6.30 p.m. in the evening.

8. A single journey shall mean any single journey made in either direction without changing cars between the following points -

(1.) Shaukiwan and Causeway Bay. (2.) Tsat Tsz Mui and Western Market.

(3.) Causeway Bay and Kennedy Town.

The Company shall run a sufficient number of through cars before 7 a.m. every morning and between 5 and 6.30 p.m. every evening between Shaukiwan and Causeway Bay, and between Tsat Tsz Mui and Western Market, and between Causeway Bay and Kennedy Town to carry all holders of workmen's ticket books who may desire to travel between those points.

9. No person shall use or attempt to use a workmen's ticket book other than the person to whom the same has been sold.

10. If the holder of a workmen's ticket book ceases to reside outside the City of Victoria during the currency of any ticket book possessed by him the Company may, on returning to him such proportion of the amount paid for the ticket book as represents the number of unused tickets therein, cancel such workmen's ticket book and no further use shall thereafter be made thereof. On any such cancellation the certificate issued under bye-law 4 shall be given up.

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