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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH JUNE, 1883.

Rule of the road.

Bye-laws

Penalty may be inposed in regulations, or bye-laws.

Company may

use Range-

wheeled carriages.

of the Governor in Council; and in every such case the Governor in Council shall make a special report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies notifying the making of such order.

41. Where a double line of rails is laid every engine and carriage travelling in one direction over one of such double lines shall pass every engine and carriage travel- ling in the opposite direction over the other of such double lines on its right side, except that, where necessary, any engine or carriage may from time to time pass and repass from one line to the other.

Bye-laws.

42. Subject to this Ordinance, the Governor in Council may from time to time make, and when made may rescind, annul, or add to regulations with regard to any of the Tramways for regulating the working and control of the Tramways as well as for any of the following pur- poses, that is to say :-

For regulating the use of the warning apparatus

affixed to the engines.

For regulating the emission of smoke or steam from

the engines.

For providing that engines and carriages shall be brought to a stand at such places, and in such cases of impending danger as the Governor in Council may deem proper for securing safety. For regulating the entrance to, exit.from, and accom- modation in the carriages, and the protection of passengers from the machinery of any engine used for drawing or propelling such carriages. For regulating the rate of speed of the engines and carriages. Provided that the speed as regards Tramways Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, shall not (unless another rate be anthorised by the Governor in Council under the authority of this section) exceed the rate of 8 miles an hour, and, as regards Tramways Nos. 5, and 6, shall not exceed the rate of ten miles an hour, and that no engines r carriages may pass through moveable facing points at a pace exceeding the rate of four miles an hour.

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Provided also that, as regards Tramways Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, the Governor in Council may, it he shall think fit so to do, authorize the maximuni rate of speed to be increased to a rate not exceed- ing the rate of 10 miles an hour.

For the stopping of carriages using the Tramways. For providing for the due publicity of all regulations and bye-laws for the time being relating to the Tramways, by exhibition thereof in conspicuous places.

For providing for the safety of the public in all cases in which it shall appear to the Governor in Council that such safety is, or is likely to be endangered or imperilled.

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Subject to this Ordinance, the Company may from time to time make bye-laws.

For preventing the commission of any nuisance in or upon any carriage, or in or against any premises belonging to them.

For regulating the travelling in or upon any carriage

belonging to them.

And from time to time repeal or alter such bye-laws and make new bye-laws; and notice of the making of any regulations by the Governor in Council, or bye-laws by the Company shall be published once in two consecutive weeks in the Gazette, within one month after the making thereof. A true copy of every bye-law shall, one month at least before the same shall come into operation, be sent to the Governor by the Company.

43. Any such regulation or bye-law may impose penal- ties for offences against the same not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, with or without penalties for continuing offences, not exceeding for any continuing offence five dollars for every day during which the offence continues; but all bye-laws shall be so framed as to allow in every case part only of the maximum penalty being ordered to be paid.

Carriages and Engines.

44. The Company may use on their Tramways carriages with flange-wheels, or wheels suitable only to run on the

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