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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1882.
On abandon- ment, power to sell.
Offences.
Further offences.
Further offences.
Transient offenders.
Penalty for bringing dangerous goods on Tramways.
Penalty for using Tramways with flange- wheeled carriages.
Power to
purchase lands by agreement.
59. If the Company shall abandon their undertaking, or any part or parts thereof, under the power herein contained, they shall be at liberty at any time, and from time to time, to sell, assign, and absolutely dispose of such of the abandoned lands, messuages, engines, carriages, rails works, conveniences and premises as shall be vested in, or shall belong to them, to such person or persons, Corporation or Company, by public auction or private contract, or partly by public auction and partly by private contract, for such price or prices, and with, under and subject to such terms and conditions in all respects as the Company shall think fit, with power at any such sale to buy in or rescind any contract for sale, and to re-sell.
Offences.
60. If any person wilfully obstructs any person acting under the authority of the Company in the lawful exercise of any of the powers hereby conferred, or defaces, or destroys, any mark made for the purpose of setting out the line of any Tramway, or damages, or destroys any property of the Company, he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars.
61. If any person without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on him) wilfully does any of the following things, namely: :-
Interferes with, removes, or alters, any part of a Tram-
way, or of the works connected therewith; Places, or throws any stones, dirt, wood, refuse, or
other materials on any part of a Tramway; Does, or causes to be done, anything in such manner as to obstruct any carriage using a Tramway, or to endanger the lives of persons therein, or thereon;
Or knowingly aids or assists in the doing of any of
such things;
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.
62. 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.
63. 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.
64. 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.
65. 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.
66. 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
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