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in such carriage, and their protection from the machinery used
for drawing or propelling such carriage.
Powers to
39. The Surveyor General , or any officer or officers ap- authorities to
pointed for that purpose by the Governor in Council in writing, inspect
may, from time to time, inspect any engine or carriage used on engines, &c.
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. The company or any person using steam or any mechan- Penalty for
steam
ical power on any of the tramways contrary to the provisions using
or inechanical
of this ordinance, or (where the same are applicable ) to any of trar
powery tocon
ordin
the regulations set forth in schedule A. hereto, or to any regu . nance or
lation added thereto or substituted therefor as aforesaid, shall regulations.
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. Providel
that whether any such penalty has been recovered or not , the
Governor in Council , in case it shall be determined that the
company or any persons using steam or any mechanical power
on the tramways under the authority of this ordinance, have
made default in complying with the provisions of this ordinance,
or ( where the same are applicable) with any of the regulations
set forth in schedule 1. hereto, or with any regulation which
inay have been added thereto or substituted therefor as afore
said, may , by order, direct the company or such persons to
cease to exercise the powers aforesaid , and therenpon the com
pany or such persons shall cease to exercise the powers afore
said , and shall not again exercise the same unless with the
authority of the Governor in Council ; and in every such case
the Governor in Council shall make a special report to Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies notifying
the making of such order.
41. Where રીa double line of rails is laid every engine and Rule of the
carriage travelling in one direction over one of such double road.
lines shall pass every engine and carriage travelling in the op
posite direction over the other of such double lines on its right
side, except that, where necessary, any engine or carriage may
from time to time pass and repass from one line to the other.
Bye-laws.
42. Subject to this ordinance, the Governor in Council may Bye-laws.
from time to time make, and when made may rescind, annui,
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