670972-1885-Vehicles-Rules- — Page 2

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TICULAAJA

unemployed, to accept hire.

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Tenise,

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13. The driver or bearer of a licensed vehicle shall not demand more than the authorised fare ; the hire of his vehicle.

14. The driver or bearer of a licensed vehicle shall travel with reasonable speed.

15. The driver or bearer of a licensed vehicle shall not leave his fare before the completion g engagement of such fare.

16. The driver or bearer of a licensed vehicle shall not use insulting language or behave ru 17. The driver or bearer of a licensed vehicle shall not sit or lie in, or in any way occupy. own vehicle.

18. Every licensed vehicle, when plying for hire or engaged after eight o'clock at night, shall a lamp of such description as the Captain Superintendent of Police shall direct.

19. All property left in any vehicle shall be taken forthwith to the Central Police Station handed over to the police authorities, who shall cause the goods to be publicly advertised in the us manner, and if claimed, the same shall be handed over to the owner claiming it, subject to a deducti....... of five per centum on the value, to be given to the driver bringing the same to the Police, to be use tained in case of difference by the Captain Superintendent of Police; and if the same shall be unclaim at the expiration of three months from the date of the loss, the Captain Superintendent shall, as s thereafter as conveniently may be, cause the said goods respectively to be sold in such manner as shall think best, and the Captain Superintendent shall deduct out of the proceeds of each sale a - equivalent to ten per centum on the proceeds of the sale of such goods, and shall

the amount to th driver or bearer who shall have brought the said goods, and subject thereto the said proceeds shall ! paid into the Public Treasury.

pay

20. No Licensed owner, bearer, drawer or driver of a licensed vehicle shall knowingly pern his vehicle to be used for the conveyance of any person suffering from a dangerously infectious diseas and for the purpose of this condition knowledge shall be presumed unless disproved by such own: bearer, drawer or driver.

21. The Licensed owner, bearer, drawer or driver of any licensed vehicle that may have he used for the conveyance of any person suffering from a dangerously infectious disease, shall cause st wehicle to be thoroughly disinfected to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police befor it is again offered for hire.

22. No Licensed owner, bearer, drawer or driver of a licensed vehicle shall allow his vehicle : be used for the conveyance of a corpse.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 14th August, 1885.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 319.

The following Notice is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th August, 1885.

NOTICE.

FREDERICK STEWART.

Acting Colonial Secreto-

The following Telegram received from the Lighthouse Department, Dublin, is published general information:--

"Relighting Tuskar Light, Irish Channel, delayed until October."

R. MURRAY RUMSEY, Ret. Com., R.N.. Acting Harbour Master, &c.

Harbour Department, Hongkong, 13th August, 1885.