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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT

AZETTE, 12rи JUNE, 1897.

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regulations, nor any repeal or variation thereof, shall come into force until the same shall have been approved by the Governor in Council, and shall have been published in the Gazette.

10. Every person who shall commit a breach of any of Penalty for the rules and regulations minde in pursuance of this Ondi- breach of nance shall, on summary conviction thereof before a Magis- trafe, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

rules and regulations.

11. In all procecalings before any Court, the rules and Proof of regulations in force for the time being under this Ordinance, rules and shall be sufficiently proved by the production of a copy of regulations. the Gazette in which the same shall be published and contained.

12. If the said Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Governor in Godown Company, Limited, or their assigns shall fail to Council may make or vary such rules and regulations as, in the opinion make rules and regula of the Governor in Council, are requisite for the protection of tions in the rights of the inhabitants of the Colony, or for the public certain safety, the Governor in Council may make an order to be events. served upon the sail Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, or their assigns, limiting a time for the making or varying of such rules and regulations, and if such rules and regulations are not made or varied by the time prescribed in such order, the Governor in Council may make or vary such rules and regulations which, when made or varied, and published in the Gazette, shall have the same force and effect as if they were specially enacted herein.

and exhibited.

13. The said Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown. Rules and Company, Limited, and their assigns shall, from time to regulations time, cause to be painted on boards, or to be printed and to be painted attached in large and legible characters in English and Chinese, a statement of the rules and regulations in force, and shall cause such boards containing such statement to be fixed on some conspicuous part of their premises.

abate and

14. If at any time after the commencement of the Power for construction of any of the Tramways authorised by this Governor in Ordinance the said Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Council to Godown Company, Limited, or their assigns shall fail to remove works proceed therewith for a period of six months, or after the in certain completion thereof, shall disuse the same or any part thereof events. for six months, without affording the Governor in Council some satisfactory reason for the discontinuance or disuse of such Tramway (as the case may be), it shall be lawful for the Governor in Comucil to abate and remove the same, and restore the site to its former condition at the cost of the said Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, or their assigns, and the amount of such cost shall be a debt due to the Government, and recoverable against the said Hougkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, or their assigns,

15. Subject to the approval of the Governor in Council Power to sell. being first obtained (but not otherwise), the said Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, and their assigns may, at any time and from time to time, sell, assign, or absolutely dispose of the said Tramways or any part or parts thereof and the rights conferred by this Ordinance to such person or persons. Corporation or Com- pany, by public auction, or private contract, or partly by public auction and partly by private contract, and with, under and subject to such terms and conditions in all respects as the said Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, or their assigns shall think fit, with power at any such sale to fix a reserve price for, or buy in the same, and when any such sale, assignment, or absolute disposal has been made, all the rights, powers, authorities, obligations and liabilities of the said Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, and their assigns in respect to the said Tramways or part or parts there- of sold, assigned, or absolutely disposed of, shall be trans- ferred to, vested in, and may be exercised by, and shall attach to the person or persons, Corporation or Company to whom the same has been soll, assigned, or absolutely dis- posed of, in like manner as if the said Tramways or part or parts thereof or the rights hereby conferred, sold, assigned, or absolutely disposed of was or were constructed by such person or persons, Corporation or Company under the powers conferred upon him or them by this Ordinance, and in reference to the same he or they shall be deemed to be the said Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, or their assigns.