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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JUNE, 1881.
Obligation of Company as to restoration and repairs of streets opened or broken up.
Repairs of roads.
On abandon- ment, damage to be made
good,
expense of the Company have been first made and laid down in lieu thereof, and ready for use and to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General or of the Surveyor or Engineer of such water or gas, or other Company or body or of such person, or in case of disagreement between such Surveyor or Engineer and the Company, as an Engineer appointed by the Governor shall direct.
3rd. The Company shall not lay down any such pipes contrary to the regulations of any law relating to such water or gas, or other body or relating to telegraphs.
4th. The Company shall make good all damage done by them to property belonging to or controlled by any such Company, body 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 Company, body or person with water or gas.
5th. If by any such operations, the Company interrupt the supply of water or gas in or through any main or main-pipe, they shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for every day upon which such supply shall be so interrupted.
VI. When the Company have opened or broken up any portion of any street or road, they shall be under the follow- ing further obligations, viz.
1st. They shall, with all convenient speed, and in all cases within four weeks at the most (unless the Surveyor General otherwise consents in writing), complete the work on account of which they opened or broke up the same, and (subject to the formation, maintenance or renewal of the Tram- way) fill in the ground, and make good the sur- face, and, to the satisfaction of the Surveyor Ge- neral, restore the portion of the road to as good condition as that in which it was before it was opened or broken up, and clear away all surplus paving or metalling material or rubbish occasioned thereby.
nd. They shall in the meantime cause the place where the street or road is opened or broken up to be fenced and watched and to be properly lighted at night.
3rd. They shall bear or pay all reasonable expenses of the repair of the street pr road as far as those expenses are increased by the opening or breaking
up.
4th. If the Company fail to comply in any respect with the provisions of the present section, they shall, for every such offence (without prejudice to the inforcement of specific performance of the require- ments of this Ordinance, or to any other remedy against them), be liable to a penalty not exceed- ing twenty dollars, and to a further penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each day during which any failure continues after the first day on which such penalty is incurred.
VII. The Company shall, at their own expense, at all times maintain and keep in good condition and repair with such materials and in such manner as the Surveyor General shall direct and to his satisfaction, so much of any road whereon any Tramway belonging to them is laid as lies be- tween the rails of the Tramway and (where loops or sidings are laid by the same Company in any road at a distance of not more than four feet from each other) the portion of the road between the Tramways, and in every case so much of the road as extends 18 inches beyond the rails. of and on each side of any such Tramway. If the Company abandon their undertaking, or any part of the same, and take up any Tramway, or any part of any Tramway belonging to them, they shall, with all convenient speed, and in all cases within six weeks at the most (unless the Governor in Council otherwise consents in writing), fill in the ground and make good the surface, and, to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General, restore the portion of the road upon which such Tramway was laid to as good a condition as that in which
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