634651-1898-Vehicle-Regulations — Page 3

1192 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD DECEMBER, 1898.

28. The driver, drawer or bearer of a licensed vehicle shall, when plying for hire with his vehicle, see that his vehicle is properly equipped with adequate protection to passengers against sun and rain to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police.

29. No licensee, owner, bearer, drawer or driver of a licensed vehicle shall use his vehicle for the carriage of animals, merchandise, or goods other than personal baggage.

30. No licensee, bearer, drawer or driver of a licensed vehicle shall knowingly permit his vehicle to be used for the conveyance of any person suffering from a dangerously infectious disease; and for the purpose of this condition knowledge shall be presumed unless disproved by such licensee, bearer,

drawer or driver.

31. The licensee, bearer, drawer or driver of any licensed vehicle that may have been used for the conveyance of any person suffering from a dangerously infectious disease, shall cause such vehicle to be thoroughly disinfected to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police before it is again offered for hire.

32. No licensee, bearer, drawer or driver of a licensed vehicle shall allow his vehicle to be used for the conveyance of a corpse.

33. All licensed vehicles shall, when disengaged or unemployed, stand ready for hire at such stands or places as the Captain Superintendent of Police shall from time to time by notice in the Gazette direct, and no drawer, driver, or bearer of a public vehicle shall loiter in the street so as to cause obstruction, but when unemployed shall proceed forthwith to one of such stands or places, and range his vehicle at the rear of any vehicles (if any) already standing there.

34. In these regulations the word "vehicle" shall mean public vehicle.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

HONGKONG.

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Clerk of Councils.

Half hour,.

One hour,

Three hours,

Six hours,....

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

CHAIRS.

I. IN VICTORIA, WITH TWO BEARERS.

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Day (6 A.M. to 6 P.M.) $1.

If the trip is extended beyond Victoria, half fare extra.

II.-BEYOND VICTORIA, WITH FOur Bearers.

":

...10 cents.

20

.50 "" .70

21

Hour,

Three hours,

Six hours,

0.60 cents. ..$1.00 1.50 2.00

Day (6 A.M. to 6 P.M.),

III. IN THE HILL DISTRICT AS DEFINED BY ORDINANCE 15 of 1888.

Half hour,

One hour,

Three hours,

Six hours,

Day (6 A.M. to 6 P.M.)

Quarter hour,

Half hour,

Hour,

With 2 Bearers.

With 4 Bearers.

.$0.15

0.30

$0.60

0.75

1.00

1.00

1.50

1.50

2.00

JINRICKSHAS.

(WITH SINGLE DRAWERS.)

.05 cents.

10

.15

1

..10

")

Every subsequent hour,

NOTE. Extra bearers, drawers or drivers and extra hours to be paid proportionate sums.