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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1882.

ordinary traffic, and the Company shall with all reasonable despatch comply with any order made by the Governor in Council for the purpose of carrying out any such improve-

ments.

10. The Tramway No. 6 shall be constructed on a guage not exceeding five feet in width, and with steel rails, which said rails shall, before being laid down, be approved of by the Surveyor General.

11. The Company from time to time for the purpose of making, forming, laying down, maintaining, renewing, altering, adding to, or removing, any Tramway under this Ordinance, or any part, or parts, thereof respectively, may open and break up any road subject to the following re- gulations:-

1. They shall give to the Surveyor General notice of their intention, specifying the time at which they will begin to do so, and the portion of road pro- posed to be opened or broken up, such notice to be given seven days at least before the commen- cement of the work.

2. They shall not open or break up or alter the level of any road except with the authority, under the superintendence, and to the satisfaction, of the Surveyor General.

3. They shall leave an interval of at least a quarter of a mile between any two places at which they may open or break up the road, and they shall not open or break up at any such place a greater length than one hundred yards.

12. When the Company have opened or broken up any portion of any road, they shall be under the following further obligations, namely:-

1. They shall, with all convenient speed, complete the work on account of which they opened or broke up the same, and (subject to the formation, main- tenance, renewal, or alteration of, addition to, or removal of the Tramway) fill in the ground, and make good the surface, and, to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General, restore the road to as good condition as that in which it was before it was opened or broken up.

2. They shall in the meantime cause the place where the road is opened or broken up to be fenced and watched, and to be properly lighted at night. If the Company fail to comply with this section, they shall, for every offence (without prejudice to the enforce- ment of specific performance of the requirements of this Ordinance, or to any other remedy against them) be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, and to a further penalty, not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each day during which any such failure continues after the first day on which such penalty is incurred.

13. In addition to the requirements of the preceding Section, the Company shall, when they give notice as afore- said to the Surveyor General of their intention to open or. break up any road for any of the purposes aforesaid, lay before the Surveyor General a plan showing the proposed mode of constructing, laying down, maintaining, renewing, altering, adding to or removing the Tramways or Works, in respect of which they propose to open or break up such road, and a statement of the materials intended to be used therein; and the Company shall not commence the con- struction, laying down, maintenance, renewal, alteration of addition to, or removal of such Tramways or Works, or any part thereof respectively, except for the purpose of neces- sary repairs, until such plan and statement have been ap- proved in writing by the Surveyor General, and the works shall be executed in accordance with such approved plan and statement, and under the superintendence, and to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General.

14. After and so soon as each of the said Tramways has been opened for the public traffic the Surveyor General shall maintain in good condition and repair the whole of the road whereon each of the said Tramways is laid, and the Company shall pay to the Surveyor General the cost of the maintenance and repair of so much of any road whereon any Tramway is laid as lies between the rails of the Tramway and also (where two lines of Tramway are laid by the Company in any road at a distance of not more than four feet from each other) the cost of the maintenance and repair of the portion of the road between the Tram- ways and also in every case the cost of the maintenance and repair of so much of the road as extends eighteen

Gauge of Tramway No. 6.

Power to break

up roads.

Completion of works, and reinstatement of road.

Further pro- visions as to construction of Tramways.

Repair of roads on which Tramways luid.

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