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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH JUNE,
(5.) The Company shall make good all damage done by them to property belonging to or controlled by any such other Company, persons or person, and shall make full compensation to all parties for any loss or damage which they may sustain by reason of any interference with such property or with the private service pipes of any person supplied by any such other Company or person with water or gas.
(6.) If by any such operations as aforesaid the Com- pany interrupt the supply of water or gas in or through any main or main pipe, for a period exceeding twelve consecutive hours, they shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for every day upon which such supply shall be so interrupted.
21. Where any Tramway, or any work connected there- with, interferes with any sewer, drain, water-course, or sub-way, or in any way affects the sewerage or drainage of the said Colony of Hongkong, the Company shall not commence any such Tramway or work until they shall have given to the Surveyor General fourteen days previous notice in writing of their intention so to do, and leaving with such notice all necessary particulars relating thereto, nor until the Surveyor General shall have signified his approval of the same, unless he do not signify his approval, disapproval, or other directions within fourteen days after service of the said notice and particulars as aforesaid; and the Company shall comply with the directions of the Surveyor General in the execution of the said works, and shall provide by new, altered, or substituted works, in such manner as the Surveyor General shall require, for the proper protection of, and for preventing injury or impedi- ment to the sewers and works hereinbefore referred to by or by reason of the Tramways, and shall save harmless the Surveyor General against the expense occasioned thereby; and all such works shall be done by or under the superin- tendence of the Surveyor General at the cost and expense of the Company, and when any new, altered or substituted work shall be completed by, or at the cost or expense of the Company under this Ordinance, the same shall there- after be as completely under the control of the Surveyor General, and be maintained by him, as any other sewers or works.
22. Nothing in this Ordinance shall take away or abridge any power to open or break up any road along or across which any Tramway is laid, or any other power now or hereafter to be vested in any other Company, or persons, or person for the doing of any matter or thing, which such Company or such persons or person is are or will be authorized to do, but, in the exercise of such power, every such other Company, or persons or person, shall be subject to the following restrictions (that is to say):-
(1.) They shall cause as little detriment or incon- venience to the Company as circumstances admit. (2.) Before they commence any work whereby the traffic on the Tramway will be interrupted, they shall (except in cases of urgency, in which case notice of the commencement of such work shall be given to the Company within twenty-four hours after such commencement) give to the Company and the Surveyor General notice of their intention to commence such work, specifying the time at which they will begin to do so, such notice to be given twenty-four hours at least before the com- mencement of the work.
(3.) They shall not be liable to pay to the Company any compensation for loss of traffic occasioned thereby, or for the reasonable exercise of the powers so vested in them as aforesaid. (4.) Whenever, for the purpose of enabling them or him to execute such work, such other Company or persons or person shall so require, the Com- pany shall either stop traffic on that portion of the Tramway to which such notice shall refer, where it would otherwise interfere with such work, or shore up and secure the same at their own risk and cost during the execution of the work there. Provided that such work shall always be com- pleted by such other Company or persons or person with all reasonable expedition.
(5.) Any such other Company or persons or person shall not execute such work so far as it immedi-
For protection of sewers, &c.
Rights of Companies, &c. to open roads.
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