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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH JUNE, 1883.
140. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance con- tained the Company shall not acquire any right other than that of user of the roads along or across which they lay any Tramway.
141. Nothing in this Ordinance shall limit the powers of the Police to regulate the passage of any traffic along or across any public road along or across which any Tram- way is laid down, and the Police may exercise their powers as well on as off the Tramway, and with respect as well to the traffic of the Company as to the traffic of other persons, and in particular nothing in this Ordinance shall limit the power of the Captain Superintendent of Police to make regulations under and exercise the powers conferred on him by Ordinance No. 10 of 1869.
142. Nothing in this Ordinance or in any regulation or bye-law made hereunder shall take away or abridge the right of the public to pass along or across every or any part of any public road along or across.which any Tramway is laid, whether on or off the Tramway, with carriages not having flange-wheels, or wheels suitable only to run on the rail of the Tramway.
143. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance con- tained the Company and any persons using the Tramways shall be subject and liable to the provisions of any general Ordinance now in force or which may hereafter be passed in the Colony of Hongkong relating to Tramways, or by which any tax or duty may be granted or imposed for or in respect of Tramways, or the passengers or traffic conveyed thereon, or to any future revision or alteration under the Legislature of the said Colony of the maximum rates of tolls or charges authorised by this Ordinance and to any condition, regulation, or restriction, which may be imposed upon the use of Tramways or upon the use on Tramways of animal power, steam power, or any mechanical power, by any such general Ordinance as aforesaid.
144. The powers and privileges given by this Ordi- nance are so given saving and reserving always the rights of Her Majesty and of all bodies politie and corporate, and of all other persons and those claiming by, from, and under them, except as is herein otherwise provided.
145. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof is proclaimed by the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 31st day of May, 1883.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 13th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
W. H. MARSH,
Right of user
only acquired.
Power 14 Police to regulate traffe.
Rights of public reserved.
Saving for
general Ördinances.
Reservation
of rights of the Crown.
Suspending clause.
Colonial Secretary.
Schedule A.
(Applicable and extending only to the Tramways Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.)
Every engine used on the Tramways shall be fitted with such mechanical appliances for preventing the motive power of such engine from operating, and for bringing such engine and any carriage drawn or propelled by such engine to a stand, as the Governor may from time to time think sufficient.
Every engine used on the Tramways shall have its number shewn in some conspicuous part thereof, and shall be fitted,-
With an indicator by means of which the speed shall be shewn ; With a suitable fender to push aside obstructions; With a special bell, whistle or other apparatus to be sounded as
a warning when necessary; and
With a seat for the driver of such engine, so placed in front of such engine as to command the fullest possible view of the road before him,
Every such engine shall be free from noise produced by blast or clatter of machinery, and the machinery shall be concealed from view at all points above 4 inches from the level of the rails, and all fire used on such engine shall be concealed from view,
Break power of engines.
As to fittings of engines
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