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691 [ 6 of 1883. ] TRAMWAYS.


Regulations of the 10th day of December, 1889, unler section 12,
gazettel the 21st December, 1889.



Application . 1. These regulations sball apply to the high level tramway described as
tramway No. 6 in The Tramways Ordinance 1883 and the expression the
company shall mean the Hongkong High Level Tramways Company Limited .
Number of
passengers to be
2. No passenger carriage of the company now in use shall carry at one
carried on tram
cur .
time more than forty passengers, but in reckoning the number of passengers
two children under the age of 12 years not in arms shall count as one pas
senger and babies in arms and the servants of the company not exceeding
two in number actually employed on any such carriage shall not be included .
Luggage, only to
be carried on
3 The weight of any luggage goods or merchandize of any description
passenger car , whatever conveyed by any passenger carriage together with the weight of
under certain
conditions. the passengers in such carriage (who for this purpose shall be held to weighi
140lbs. each ) shall not exceed 2 tons. Nor shall any luggage goods or
inerchandize be conveyed in any truck or waggon attached to any passenger
carriage.
No stoppage
for passengers
4. Except at the terminus at St. John's Place and at Victoria Gap, no
except at
authorised
carriage shall stop at any place nor shall any place be used for the purpose
stations. of taking up or depositing passengers unless such place has been certified by
the Surveyor General as safe and suitable for the purpose, and any such place
when so certified shall be kept and maintained by the company in constant
good order and condition .
Watchmen to be
employed to
5. The company shall keep one or more competent watchmen employed
prevent obstruc
tions,
at all times when the carriages are running to prevent any stones dirt wood
refuse or other materials or any obstruction from being placed on the per
manent way and rails and to remove any such materials or obstructions
therefrom .

Time of inspecto
and testing 6. The carriages trucks and waggons of the company and the machinery
corrcarriages en therein now in use shallhereafter be inspected and tested by the Surveyor
ofmachinery & c. General or any officer or officers appointed for the purpose by the Governor
( add. Reg. 16th in Council in the month of January in every year and the engines ropes and
March, 1891.)
other machinery of the tramway shull be also inspected and tested as afore
said every year .

Notice of altera 7. The company shall give one month's notice in writing to the Surveyor
tions or changes . General of every intended change or alteration of or in any engineor carriage
used on the said tramway or any machinery therein or of or in the permanent
way and rails and the Surveyor General may if he think fit require the same
to be tested and may where the circumstances of the case permit allow any
such change or alteration to be made prior to the expiration of such notice
as aforesaid .

Velocity of 8. Vo carriage truck or waggon shall travel ut a greater speed than 8
carriages.
( Add. Reg. 26th miles an hour and the company shall as soon as practicable and not later
June, 1890.) than six months from the date of these regulations fix and maintain a proper
brake for the propose of regulating the speed thereof.
Penalty for 9. Every breach of any of these regulations shall be an offence against the
breach
tions of regula- said ordinance and shall render the company liable to a penalty not exceeding
$ 10 and for any continuing offence to a penalıy not exceeiling $ .5 for every
dar during which the offence continues ,