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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH FEBRUARY,
Further offences.
Regulation for user of line.
Transient offenders
Penalty for bringing dangerous goods on Tramways.
Penalty for using Tramways with flange- wheeled carriages.
Power to
purchase lands by agreement.
Parties under disability enabled to sell and assign.
he shall for every such offence be liable (in addition to any proceedings by way of indictment, or otherwise, to which he may be subject) to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
LI. If any person travelling, or having travelled, in any carriage avoids, or attempts to avoid, payment of his fare, or if any person having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceeds in any such carriage beyond such distance, and does not pay the additional fare for the additional distance, or attempts to avoid payment thereof, or if any person knowingly and wilfully refuses, or neglects, on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare, to quit such carriage, every such person shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars.
LII. Where a double line of rails is laid down every Tramway carriage shall run on the rails on the left side of the road in the direction in which it is travelling, and the driver of any engine or tramcar crossing to the other line of rails without obvious neccessity shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars.
LIII. It shall be lawful for any officer or servant of the Company, and all persons called by him to his assistance, to seize and detain any person discovered either in, or immediately after, committing, or attempting to commit, any such offence as in the next preceding section is mentioned, and whose name or residence is unknown to such officer or servant, until such person can be conven- iently taken to a Police Station for safe custody and detained until he be discharged by due course of law.
LIV. No person shall be entitled to carry, or to require to be carried, on any Tramway any goods which may be of a dangerous nature, and if any person send by any Tramway any such goods, without distinctly marking their nature on the outside of the package containing the same, or otherwise giving notice in writing to the book-keeper, or other servant with whom the same are left, at the time of such sending, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for every such offence, and it shall be lawful for the Company to refuse to take any parcel that they may suspect to contain goods of a dangerous nature, or require the same to be opened to ascertain the fact.
LV. If any person (except under the authority of this Ordinance), uses any of the said Tramways with carriages having flange-wheels, or other wheels suitable only to run on the rail of such Tramway, such person shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Purchase of lands by agreement,
LVI. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Company to agree with the owners of any lands which shall be required for the purposes of this Ordinance, and with all parties having any estate or interest in such lands, or by this Ordinance enabled to sell and assign the same, for the absolute purchase for a consideration in money of any such lands, or such parts thereof as they shall think proper, and of all estates and interests in such lands of what kind soever.
LVII. It shall be lawful for all parties, being seized, possessed of, or entitled to, any such lands, or any estate or interest therein, to sell and assign or release the same to the Company, and to enter into all necessary agreements for that purpose, and particularly it shall be lawful for all, or any, of the following parties, so scized, possessed, or on- titled, as aforesaid, so to sell, assign or release (that is to say) all corporations, tenant in tail, or for life, married women seized in their own right, guardians, committees of lunaties, and idiots, trustees in trust for charitable or other purposes, executors and administrators, and all parties, for the time being, entitled to the receipt of the rents and profits of any such lands in possession, or subject to any lease for life, or for lives and years, or for years, or any less interest; and the power so to sell and assign or release as aforesaid may lawfully be exercised by all such parties, as to such married women, whether they be of full age or not, as if they were sole, and of full age, and as to such guardians on behalf of their wards, and as to such committees on behalf of the lunatics and
1882.
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