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A.D. 1883.

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TRAMWAYS.

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powers hereby conferred with respect to the use of steam or any me- chanical power on the said tramways: Provided, also, that before the Company or any person uses steam or any mechanical power under this Ordinance, it or he shall give two months' previous notice of its or his intention to do so to the Governor-in-Council.

of Tramway No. 6.

37. The carriages used on Tramway No. 6 may be moved by means Motive power of locomotive or stationary engines and steel-wire ropes, or by such other mechanical power as the Governor-in-Council may approve of.

of carriages.

38. Every carriage used on any of the tramways shall be so con- Construction structed as to provide for the safety of passengers and for their safe entrance to, and exit from, and accommodation in such carriage and their protection from the machinery used for drawing or propelling such carriage.

39. The Surveyor General, or any officer or officers appointed for that purpose by the Governor-in-Council in writing, may from time to time inspect any engine or carriage used on any of the tramways and the machinery therein, and also any rope or other machinery of the said tramways, and report thereon; and the Governor-in-Council may, by order, prohibit the use on the tramways, or any of them, of any such engine, carriage, rope, or machinery which may be determined to be unsafe or unfit for use.

40.--(1.) The Company or any person using steam or any mechani- cal power on any of the tramways contrary to the provisions of this Or- dinance, or (where the same are applicable) to any of the regulations set forth in the First Schedule to this Ordinance, or to any regulations added thereto or substituted therefor as aforesaid, shall for every such offence be subject to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, and also, in the case of a continuing offence, a further penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars for every day after the first during which such offence continues: Pro- vided that, whether any such penalty has been recovered or not, the Governor-in-Council, in case it is determined that the Company or any person using steam or any mechanical power on the tramways under the authority of this Ordinance has made default in complying with the provisions of this Ordinance, or (where the same are applicable) with any of the regulations set forth in the First Schedule to this Ordinance, or with any regulations which may have been added thereto or substi- tuted therefor as aforesaid, may, by order, direct the Company or such person to cease to exercise the powers aforesaid, and thereupon the Com- pany or such person shall cease to exercise the powers aforesaid, and shall not again exercise the same except with the authority of the Gov- ernor-in-Council.

Power to

authorities to inspect engines, etc.

Penalty for authorized steam or

using un-

mechanical power.

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