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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21st DECEMBER, 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 522.
The following Regulations under The Tramways Ordinance, 1883, are published for general information.
By Command,
A. LISTER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st December, 1889.
Application.
REGULATIONS
Made the 16th day of December, 1889, by the Governor in Council, under The Tramways Ordinance, 1883,
Number of passengers to be carried on tram car.
Luggage, only to be carried on passenger car, under certain conditions.
No stoppage for Passengers except at authorised .Stations.
Watchmen to be employed to prevent obstructions.
Time of Inspection and Testing of carriages &c., of Machinery &c.
Notice of alterations or
Section 42.
1. These Regulations shall apply to the High Level Tramway described as Tramway No. 6 in The Tramways Ordinance 1883 and the expression the Com- pany shall mean The Hongkong High Level Tramways Company Limited.
2. No passenger carriage of the Company now in use shall carry at one time more than forty passengers, but in reckoning the number of passengers two children under the age of 12 years not in arms shall count as one passenger and babies in arms and the servants of the Company not exceeding two in number actually employed on any such carriage shall not be included.
3. The weight of any luggage goods or merchandize of any description what- ever conveyed by any passenger carriage together with the weight of the passengers in such carriage (who for this purpose shall be held to weigh 140 lbs. each) shall not exceed 2 tons. Nor shall any luggage goods or merchandize be conveyed in any truck or waggon attached to any passenger carriage.
4. Except at the terminus at St. John's Place and at Victoria Gap, no carriage shall stop at any place nor shall any place be used for the purpose of taking up or depositing passengers unless such place has been certified by the Surveyor General as safe and suitable for the purpose, and any such place when so certified shall be kept and maintained by the Company in constant good order and condition.
5. The Company shall keep one or more competent watchmen employed at all times when the carriages are running to prevent any stones dirt wood refuse or other materials or any obstruction from being placed on the permanent way and rails and to remove any such materials or obstructions therefrom.
6. The carriages trucks and waggons of the Company and the machinery therein now in use shall hereafter be inspected and tested by the Surveyor General or any officer or officers appointed for the purpose by the Governor in Council in the month of January and the month of June in every year and the engines ropes and other machinery of the Tramway shall be also inspected and tested as aforesaid in the month of June in every year.
7. The Company shall give one month's notice in writing to the Surveyor changes in Machinery &c. General of every intended change or alteration of or in any engine or carriage used on the said Tramway or any machinery therein or of or in the permanent way and rails and the Surveyor General may if he think fit require the same to be tested and may where the circumstances of the case permit allow any such change or alteration to be made prior to the expiration of such notice as aforesaid.
Velocity of carriages.
Penalty for Breach of regulations.
8. No carriage truck or waggon shall travel at a greater speed than 8 miles an hour and the Company shall as soon as practicable and not later than six months from the date of these regulations fix and maintain on every carriage truck or waggon in use on the line an automatic brake for the purpose of regulating the speed thereof.
9. Every breach of any of these regulations shall be an offence against the said Ordinance and shall render the Company liable to a penalty not exceeding $10 and for any continuing offence to a penalty not exceeding $5 for every day during
which the offence continues.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
HONGKONG.
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