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L.D. 1883.

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[No. 2.

where such permission is withheld, then so much of the said tramways respectively as is then completed shall be deemed to be a tramway to which all the provisions of this Ordinance relating to the discontinuance of tramways after proof of such discontinuance shall apply, and may be dealt with accordingly.

(2.) A notice published by the Governor-in-Council in The Gazette declaring that a tramway has not been completed and opened for public traffic, or that the construction of the tramways, or any or either of them, has not been substantially commenced within the time aforesaid, or that such construction has been suspended without sufficient reason shall be conclusive evidence for the purposes of this section of such non-completion, non-commencement, or suspension.

Licences to use Tramways.,

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27. If, at any time after any tramway, or part of any tramway, has Licences to been for three years opened for public traffic, it is represented in writ- third parties ing to the Governor-in-Council by twenty inhabitant ratepayers of the tramways. Colony that the public are deprived of the full benefit of any tramway or part thereof, the Governor-in-Council may (if he considers that primá facie the case is one for inquiry) inquire into the matter, and, if satisfied of the truth of the representation, may from time to time grant licences to any company or person to use such tramway in addition to the Com- pany for such traffic as is authorized by this Ordinance, with carriages to be approved of by the Governor-in-Council, subject to the following provisions, conditions, and restrictions; that is to say,-

(1.) the licence shall be for any period not less than one year or more than three years from the date of the licence, but shall be renewable by the Governor-in-Council, if he upon inquiry thinks fit;

(2.) the licence shall be to use the whole of such tramways for the time being opened for public traffic or such part or parts of such tramways as the Governor-in-Council, having reference to the cause for granting the licence, may think right;

(3.) the licence shall direct the number of carriages which the licen- see or licensees shall run upon such tramway, and the mode in which and the times at which such carriages shall be run; (4.) the licence shall specify the tolls to be paid to the Company, or to its lessees, by the licensee or licensees, for the use of the tramways;

(5.) the licensee or licensees, and his or their officers or servants, shall

permit one person, duly authorized for that purpose by the Com- pany or its lessees, to ride free of charge in or upon each car- riage of the licensee or licensees run upon the tramways for the

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