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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH JULY, 1899.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 435.

The following Regulations are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th July, 1899.

REGULATIONS

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

Made by the Governor-in-Council on the 24th day of July, 1899, under the provisions of “The Licensing Consolidation Ordinance, 1887."

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1. The rules, conditions and regulations made by the Governor-in-Council on the 30th day of November, 1887, the 4th day of January, 1888, the 12th day of June, 1888, the 3rd day of January, 1891, the 19th day of November, 1891, the 22nd day of December, 1892, the 7th day of September, 1893, the 2nd day of July, 1894, the 15th day of August, 1894, the 25th day of August, 1895, and the 28th day of November, 1898, under the provisions of the Licensing Consolidation Ordinance, 1887, are hereby repealed.

2. Licences for public vehicles and licences for drivers, drawers or bearers of such vehicles shall be issued by the Captain Superintendent of Police, who may, in his discretion, refuse to issue any licence. No licences shall be issued for more than 600 jinrickshas, within the island of Hongkong. Subject to the next rule all licences for public vehicles shall be taken out half-yearly or for the residue of the current half-year, and shall expire on the 31st day of May or on the 30th day of November, all licences for drivers, drawers or bearers of public vehicles shall be taken out at such times and for such periods not exceeding one year as the Superintendent of Police may consider necessary.

3. Licences for jinrickshas licensed for the City of Victoria shall be issued annually and shall be chargeable with a fee of $72 per licence. Such fee shall be payable in advance by four equal instalments of $18 each per quarter, and in default of any such payment the licence shall be forfeited.

4. The fees for half-yearly Licences for other public vehicles shall be as follows:-

(a.) For every wheeled vehicle. other than a jinricksha licensed for

Victoria,

(b.) For every wheeled vehicle licensed for British Kowloon, or Quarry

Bay, (c.) For every chair,

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$18.00

$12.00

$ 1.00

The fee for a licence for a driver, drawer or bearer of a public vehicle shall be thirty cents.

5. The drawer of a jinricksha licensed for Victoria shall not ply for hire outside of the City of Victoria, and the drawer of a jinricksha licensed for a district other than the City of Victoria shall not ply for hire within the City of Victoria. But this rule shall not be deemed to prohibit any drawer of a jinricksha licensed under these Regulations from taking passengers on the return journey to or from the said City of Victoria.

6. No licence shall be transferable, except upon such special grounds as may be approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police and sanctioned by the Governor.

7. No holder of a licence for a vehicle shall let out his vehicle to any driver, drawer or bearer not being the holder of a lawful licence as driver, drawer or bearer.

8. Every licensed vehicle shall have thereto affixed, or painted thereon in such conspicuous places as the Captain Superintendent of Police directs, the number of its licence in figures not less than two inches in length.

9. No jinricksha licensed under these Rules shall exceed 36 inches in breadth between the wheels, or shall have tires to such wheels of less breadth than 14 inch, or shall be of a different pattern, size, or weight from that approved, or hereafter to be approved, by the Captain Superintendent of Police. The tires must be flat not bevelled, and the hood of every jinricksha must afford a clear height from the upper side of the cushion of 41 inches.

10. The driver, drawer or bearer of every licensed vehicle shall wear conspicuously a distinguish- ing badge bearing the number of his own licence. Should such badge be made of leather or metal, or of both and be issued by the Captain Superintendent of Police he may demand a deposit of twenty-five cents for each badge, such deposit to be returned on the expiry of the licence and the return of the badge.